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Richmond Chinese Center
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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2008.07.18 update: age? At least we know people from 25 to 46 are joining this event. We have a nice gathering yesterday. Now we have a core group working to organize more events for professionals (means singles)so we can know more friends and have more fun together. This is a very casual gathering for those who are singles (professionals or college students) . It is a good chance to meet new people and enjoy the beautiful sunshine. We encourage you to step out and relax. 
Sat. 9:15am We will meet at the Exsson gas station at nuckols & 295 near cox road. We will merge cars to carpool. Total mileage is around 260 miles round trip. Gas is about $50 per car. It is suggested riders share gas expenses and parking with driver. Sat. 9:30am Leave for virginia beach. Sat 11:30am Park: Reach the end of i-264. Turn right onto Atlantic Ave. Near the end, it is a loop. Come back and park the car in the public parking (fee). Sat 12pm. After settledown, we will have a picnic first. (bring your own food). What to bring: Everyone: Bring some food for lunch. blanket, swimming suit, towels, sun screen, waters, snacks/food. If you have: bring beach umbrella, beach chairs. Fishing tools. Someone must bring. Stuff you can play on the beach: beach balls, volley balls, frisbee, etc. Cash. We may find a buffet for dinner. We will come back around 9pm. Get home 11pm. How: - Reply this email including your name and cells. You are willing to drive or ride? It will be shared with the group. - Another email will be sent out next Friday. Remember check your email. update on http://www.RichmondChineseCenter.com |
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China-News -
Entertainment
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 Chinese actors, singers and other celebrities perform during the 4th Music Award of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad at the Worker People's Cultural Palace as part of the 100-day Olympic countdown celebration in Beijing April 30, 2008. |
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China-News -
Travel
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 Visitors crowd on both sides of the Qianmen Street, a former commercial center near Tian'anmen Square in Beijing May 1, 2008. The "Mini Golden Week" starts today and lasts for three days until May 3. The new holiday scheme has shortened the Labor Golden Week to three days this year. |
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China-News -
Culture
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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TOKYO, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Takashi Tsujii, chief of Japan-China Culture Exchange Association, expressed his warm welcome to Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Japan in an article published Thursday. President Hu's scheduled visit to Japan in early May as well as a series of earlier exchange of high-level visits between the two nations, including Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's visit to China last year following Premier Wen Jiabao's Japan tour, is a great delight indeed, said Tsujii in his article entitled "Welcome President Hu to Japan." |
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Latest News
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 JIAXING/NINGBO, Zhejiang Province, May 1 (Xinhua) -- China inaugurated the world's longest cross-sea bridge on Thursday as part of its effort to boost economic integration and development in the Yangtze River Delta. Hundreds of people attended the opening ceremony for the 36-kilometer bridge spanning Hangzhou Bay near Shanghai on Thursday afternoon. It was held in the middle of the bridge. |
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China-News -
Politics
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has published a signed article that said the Dalai Lama has no right to talk about human rights issues. The article, entitled "The 'Tibet Issue' has nothing to do with human rights," was written by the paper's columnist He Zhenhua, who has recently published numerous articles criticizing the Dalai Lama and supporting patriotism among Chinese readers. |
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China-News -
Technology
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, April 30 (Xinhua) -- An expert with a torch design lab under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp. said at the Qomolangma Base Camp on Wednesday that the Olympic torch can scale the summit without sputtering out.The ascent of the torch to the Mt. Qomolangma will be one of the highlights of the torch relay for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
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China-News -
Taiwan
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwan's incoming chief of China affairs said Thursday she backs President-elect Ma Ying-jeou's policies of boosting ties with the mainland, rejecting accusations she is a closet supporter of formal independence for the island. Lai Hsin-yuan's comments follow complaints from some members of Ma's Nationalist Party earlier this week that her former status as a lawmaker for a pro-independence party makes her a poor choice to head the island's Mainland Affairs Council. |
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China-News -
Economy
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 MADRID (AFP) — China should channel more of its growing foreign aid through multinational organisations, the director general of the Asian Development Bank, Rajat Nag, said Wednesday in Spain."China is playing a very important role as an emerging donor, they are actually also a donor to the Asian Development Fund, and we strongly encourage that countries which themselves have benefited from the generosity of others during their development phase in turn try to return some of that," he said. |
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China-News -
Latest News
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING, April 30 (Xinhua) -- The energy strategies of developed countries, rather than growing demand from developing countries such as China and India, were to blame for the current global grain crisis, a top Chinese agriculture official said on Wednesday. |
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China-News -
World
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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In the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9/11, both China and Pakistan expressed their support for the U.S. But they did so differently and with varying motives and reasons.While China needed time to formulate its policy afresh, Pakistan probably had no way out but to acquiesce and climb aboard the U.S. bandwagon. |
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China-News -
Sports
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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GENEVA: China became the ninth and final country bidding to host the 2014 men's basketball world championship on Wednesday.China joins current world champion Spain, France, Denmark, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Italy and Greece on the list of candidates to stage the event held every four years, governing body FIBA announced. |
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China-News -
Politics
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING, May 1 (Reuters) - When Beijing hosts the Olympics in August, it hopes the event will mark China's emergence onto the world stage, but it won't be the first East Asian country to have used the Games to reinvent itself.The Beijing Games fit a narrative set by the Tokyo Olympics in 1964 and continued with the Seoul Games of 1988 that show each in turn stepping forward and changing their international image. |
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China-News -
Import/Export
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The rapid appreciation of the Chinese currency against the US dollar is taking a big toll on Asian companies using China as base for exports to the United States, according to a top US business official.The yuan has risen 18 percent against the dollar since China abandoned a peg in July 2005, and the currency breached a key psychological level of 7.0 yuan to one dollar on April 10. |
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China-News -
Taiwan
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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TAIPEI (XFN-ASIA) - Taiwan's incoming president Ma Ying-jeou is facing calls from his own party to rethink the widely criticised naming of a pro-independence politician as top China policy-maker.Kuomintang (KMT) legislators said the appointment of Lai Shin-yuan to chair Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council threatened efforts to improve ties with Beijing. |
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China-News -
Economy
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING, May 1 (Xinhua) -- The cycle of economic boom in China, the world's fastest-growing major economy, would last until at least 2020, said an expert with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner. |
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China-News -
Business
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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SINGAPORE, April 30 (Xinhua) -- With the enormous momentum from China and India, Asian economies will still grow at a relatively fast pace in the next two years, according to a report issued Wednesday by Standard & Poor's. |
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China-News -
Health
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING -- The number of children infected with a deadly virus in eastern China has increased by nearly 700 in the past two days, state media reported Wednesday.The virus, Enterovirus 71, has killed 20 children since it was discovered in March in Fuyan, a city in Anhui province. |
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China-News -
Latest News
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
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BEIJING -- Demonstrations involving hundreds of people erupted at Carrefour outlets in some Chinese cities on Thursday.Protesters held Chinese national flags and shouted slogans against Carrefour and "Tibet independence" outside the outlets of the French retailer in Beijing, Changsha, Fuzhou, Chongqing and Shenyang. |
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China-News -
Politics
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
 HONG KONG (AP) — Actress Mia Farrow was briefly questioned at Hong Kong's airport Thursday before officials allowed her to enter the Chinese territory to give a speech criticizing China's relations with Sudan.Farrow's entry to Hong Kong is seen as one indication of how free the city will be while hosting the torch. Officials here are under great pressure from Beijing to ensure a trouble-free relay, after protests have disrupted the run on several of its international stops. |
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