Fiat Guangzhou Automotive Sign China JV
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- Fiat Guangzhou Automotive Sign China JV
- Survey shows more teens have sexual experience
- Chris Paul headed back to China as basketball ambassador
- Big trouble in China’s Chocolate City
- The disunited colors of prejudice
- Chinese Leader Cites Need for ‘Industrial Restructuring’
- Big stars come out for RI International Film Fest
Fiat Guangzhou Automotive Sign China JV
Wall Street Journal
RME (Dow Jones)–Guangzhou Automobile Group and Italy’s Fiat SpA (F. MI) have agreed to set up a joint venture to start making economy cars from May 2011 they said Monday giving Fiat a much-needed manufacturing presence in China. Fiat has struggled to find a joint venture partner in China.
Survey shows more teens have sexual experience
Xinhua
1 (Xinhua) — A recent survey found that 17 percent of students in polytechnic schools aged 15 to 18 in Guangzhou of south China’s Guangdong Province had had a sexual experience Saturday’s China Daily reported. The poll conducted by Guangzhou Youth League School also found that 8 percent of those females have been pregnant at least once. The survey polled 500 students in three polytechnic schools in downtown Guangzhou. “Polytechnic students don’t need to prepare for the cut-throat college entrance examination as other high school students do. I think the ratio in polytechnics must be higher than other high schools” said Zuo Bin a teacher with Guangzhou Youth League School and also the organizer of the survey.
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Chris Paul headed back to China as basketball ambassador
The Canadian Press
“Paul’s second trip back to the Far East in as many years will be among the highlights of a busy off-season that saw him become a father go back to college and add a little bulk to his physique. The Hornets’ all-star point guard and 2008 lympic gold medal winner will arrive in Tianjin on Aug. 2 and move on to Guangzhou on Aug. 3-4 hosting basketball clinics and dedicating an outdoor court on the grounds of a Guangzhou school. The trip will include the launch of the Jordan CP3 II China Edition basketball shoe which will be decorated with Chinese characters symbolic of Paul’s life such as the year he was born (1985) and the No. 61 which relates to Paul scoring 61 points in a high-school game to honour his 61-year-old slain grandfather. It also will include the No.
Big trouble in China’s Chocolate City
Toronto Star
A recent protest in the Chinese city of Guangzhou has shed light on tensions between African merchants and Chinese authorities. The Star’s Asia bureau chief Bill Schiller has the details. jpeg’if(imageL) {document.
The disunited colors of prejudice
China Daily
The incident continues to be fiercely debated in the US with President Barack bama inviting the two to the White House to help resolve the issue after he escalated it by saying the police had “acted stupidly”. Unfortunately what happened to Gates is not totally unimaginable in another country today. In China there have been recent reports of rumblings from the African community in Guangzhou capital of Guangdong province of being unwelcome and “harassed” by authorities targeting illegal immigrants in the city – more so than how other foreigners there such as Westerners are treated. All because of the long-held perception among many residents that Africans there are lowly paid and therefore often associated with criminal activities local media reported. A group of Africans numbering more than 100 subsequently protested at a local police post in the city after one of their kind leapt to his death from a building to evade the police who were checking African passports. Police maintained that no one had died in the incident. Even now some Guangzhou residents might admit using the generic and derogatory term “hei gui” or “black devil” to refer to Africans in the community.
Chinese Leader Cites Need for ‘Industrial Restructuring’
Wall Street Journal
–>Chinese Leader Cites Need for ‘Industrial Restructuring’ ArticleCommentsmore in. Wang Yang Communist Party secretary of southern China’s Guangdong province and a member of the party’s Politburo said Thursday that the financial crisis exposed the fragility and volatility of basing the Chinese economy on what he called “the lowest level on the value chain. ” “We need to start from a new beginning” said Mr.
Big stars come out for RI International Film Fest
Providence Journal
org — so the folks back home can keep abreast of what’s going on in Providence. “Last year 326 filmmakers came from all over the world” says Marshall adding that local hotels have pitched in with discount rates. This year Lei Hong executive director of the Guangzhou Film Festival in China will be coming. “We’re associated with the Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival” adds RIIFF producing director Adam Short and she will be here to represent her festival and to see how an American film festival works. “Every year” Short continues “we exchange films with the Guangzhou festival provided our filmmakers agree to translate their films into Mandarin for China. ” The RIIFF continues to donate tickets to non-profit groups which they can then sell to their patrons — a win-win situation for both the non-profits which get money from selling the tickets and for the RIIFF which can both fill up its shows and develop new audiences. That’s important when you want to have a good showing in a hall such as the 3300-seat PPAC or the 850-seat Columbus.
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