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Iraqi Government Spokesman, Ali al-Dabagh, speaks to the media outside the negotiation room room where P5+1 -- Britain, China, France, Russia, the United States and Germany -- met with Iranian diplomats in Baghdad on May 24, 2012. Crunch Iranian nuclear talks went down to the wire, with Tehran threatening to walk away unless world powers ease sanctions in return for a partial suspension of its atomic activities.
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This year we started to organize talks among state and provincial education officials ... The cooperation has the goal of improving higher vocational colleges and community colleges in China. Also, we are pushing for teacher exchanges under the primary education program.
The State Department must press China to carry out its commitments. We cannot assume that this saga has been resolved.
What happens in the U.S. embassy in China should be within the hands of the officials on the ground and the State Department ... It should not be a political issue here in the U.S.More quotes »
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China's city code enforcers chided for violence
from the Public Security Ministry, Beijing's urban management bureau and an association of urban management bureaus across China were either denied or unanswered.The chengguan has been a source of public resentment for years. Set up in 1997, the bureaus were Read more »
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World Bank says Europe, US might hurt Asian growth
though to still-healthy levels of about 8 to 9 percent.Asian commodities suppliers such as Indonesia that have benefited from China's boom are especially vulnerable to a slowdown, which could "trigger an unexpected drop in commodity prices," the bank said.Many Read more »
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Cartoon studio faces state clout, global stars
part time at the University of Southern California . "We can see that it's not like that in the U.S. or some other countries."China's roughly 10,000 animation studios, employing 200,000 people, churned out 260,000 minutes of animation material in 2011 -- about Read more »
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Chinese company buying AMC theater chain
Chinese conglomerate announced Monday it will buy a major U.S. cinema chain, AMC Entertainment Holdings, for $2.6 billion in China 's biggest corporate takeover in the United States to date. Dalian Wanda Group Co.'s purchase reflects the global ambitions of Read more »
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Taiwan's Ma signals no China change as term starts
he begins his second four-year term.Speaking at a low-key inaugural ceremony Sunday, Ma Ying-jeou hewed to the same formula for China relations he championed during his first term -- "no unification, no independence and no use of force."That policy has substantially Read more »
