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  • Picture of Arson Suspect of China Bus Fire Made Public

    Hangzhou, China, July 6, 2014, (xinhuanet) — A bus fire that left 32 injured in east China’s Hangzhou on Saturday was caused by arson, police said Sunday morning.
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    Picture from survilliance video of the arson suspect was made public on July 6 (file photo).
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  • Yingli Solar to Become the First Carbon Neutral FIFA World Cup Sponsor

    BAODING, China and RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, June 27, 2014 (PRNewswire) — Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) (“Yingli Green Energy” or the “Company”), the largest vertically integrated photovoltaic (“PV”) module manufacturer in the world, known as “Yingli Solar,” today hosted a press conference in Rio de Janeiro to announce the Company’s plans to leave a sustainable legacy in Brazil. These plans include becoming the first ever carbon neutral sponsor of the FIFA World Cup, and supplying 400 to 600 kW for a solar legacy project in Brazil that is expected to be among the largest solar energy systems in the country.
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  • First Nonstop Flight from Mainland China Lands at Boston Logan Airport

    Boston, June 22, 2014, –Hainan Airlines launched a brand new route from Beijing to Boston, using its latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

    The new flights commenced on June 20, 2014 marking the first ever direct passenger service between Boston and mainland China. Initially, Hainan Airlines will operate the trans-Pacific route four times a week, with flights departing Beijing Capital International Airport every Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 1350, before arriving at Boston’s Logan International Airport at 1510 the same day, having crossed the International Date Line. The return leg will then depart the Massachusetts city at 1710, getting back into Beijing at 1850 the next day.
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    Hainan Airlines and Massport officials and staff celebrate the arrival of the inaugural service.
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  • Airlines Add Direct Routes between China and US

    Beijing, June 20, 2014 (Global Times), — It is quite rare to see numerous routes opened between China and the United States within two weeks, but this is exactly what is happening now.

    Hainan Airlines, the fourth-largest airline in China in terms of fleet size, opens the nonstop route between Beijing and Boston, its third US city after Seattle and Chicago, Friday.
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    Chinese students from Northeastern University were invited to the ceremony at Boston Logan International Airport to celebrate the arrival of the first nonstop flight from Beijing (photos provided by NUCSSA).
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  • China’s Real Estate Market Continues to Grow

    BEIJING, June 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — After the adjustment in the first half year, now the entire real estate market has become stable, in particular the situation of the real estate market in the past several weeks has indicated the warming again after a cold spell and the confidence of market participants is recovering. An original report by Sina Leju follows:

    According to the latest data of CREIS, during the week from June 9 to 15, the cumulative transaction area of the domestic 40 cities rose by 13% MoM and 7% YoY, which indicated the warming of the cumulative turnover. Of which the first tier cities had the largest MoM growth rate reaching 39% and the MoM growth rate of Beijing reached 1.7 times; the second tier cities also had a certain YoY and MoM growth.

    View of an apartment complex in Beijing from high speed rail(file photo).
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  • The Beauty of Potala Palace

    Photos by Bin Zhu

    The Potala Palace, winter palace of the Dalai Lama since the 7th century, symbolizes Tibetan Buddhism and its central role in the traditional administration of Tibet. The complex, comprising the White and Red Palaces with their ancillary buildings, is built on Red Mountain in the center of Lhasa Valley, at an altitude of 3,700m. Also founded in the 7th century, the Jokhang Temple Monastery is an exceptional Buddhist religious complex. Norbulingka, the Dalai Lama’s former summer palace, constructed in the 18th century, is a masterpiece of Tibetan art. The beauty and originality of the architecture of these three sites, their rich ornamentation and harmonious integration in a striking landscape, add to their historic and religious interest.
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  • Wu Dengming, A Green Fighter/ “绿林好汉”吴登明

    Wu Dengming, environmental activist, died on July 19, 2013 at age 73.
    吴登明，环保运动者，7月19日逝世，享年73岁。

    IN THE main room of the small, old-fashioned house, stacked full of books, an old fan scarcely moved the stuffy air around. Wu Dengming’s daughter kept pleading for air-conditioning. Elsewhere in Chongqing, China’s fastest-growing inland city, where 10m people lived in a battery of skyscrapers, almost everyone had it. Mr Wu would not hear of it. It was expensive, and was not green. He had a dream of making everyone in the city turn their coolers to 26ºC, and no lower. Why not? He had managed to organise Chongqing’s first no-car day, in 2006, and as a result—perhaps—you could sometimes glimpse blue sky through the smog that blanketed the place.
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  • Nanjing Massacre and “Comfort Women” Might Be Listed as “Memory of World”

    Beijing, June 11 (Xinhua) — China on Wednesday rejected Japan’s call for it to withdraw an application to register records of Japan’s wartime sex slaves with UNESCO.

    “We will not accept Japan’s unreasonable protest, and will not drop our application,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a daily news briefing.
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    China asks UNESCO to list archives of Nanjing Massacre & comfort women as “Memory of World”.
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  • China Celebrates 70th Anniversary of D-Day

    （CCTV news）June 6, 2014 was the 70th anniversary of the World War II invasion of Normandy, better known as D-Day. The event marked the beginning of the French liberation from Nazi Germany.
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    President Obama participated in a group photo of world leaders attending the D-Day 70th anniversary ceremonies at Château de Bénouville in Bénouville, France.
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  • The Gloves Come off at 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue

    By Nigel Inkster, Director, Transnational Threats and Political Risk

    By general consensus, the 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue entered new territory. Until now, exchanges at the Dialogue had been very Asian in their circumspection and avoidance of controversy. Pressure has been building up for some time, driven by regional concerns about the implications of an increasingly assertive and militarily capable China disposed to challenge the United States’ status as guarantor of regional stability. But this year the dramatic new ingredient was a keynote address by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who expressed his desire to dispense with Japan’s historical baggage and begin a new chapter as a normal country and an exponent of active pacifism. Abe spoke of Japan’s emphasis on the importance of observing international law and norms and promoting human rights – pointed if unspoken references to a China widely perceived within the region to be doing neither, particularly with respect to its maritime policies. And Abe’s speech was followed by an even more blunt statement from US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, who accused China of disrupting the regional order and stating that the US government would not stand idly by when confronted with breaches of international law.
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    Hagal(left) and Wang shake hands at 2014 Shangri-La Dialogue.
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