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Employment situation ‘critical’
BEIJING: China warned Thursday it was facing serious unemployment problems because of the global economic crisis, amid signs it was increasingly concerned about social tensions across the country.
“Currently, the employment situation is critical, and this impact [of the financial crisis] is still unfolding,” Yin Weimin, China’s social security minister, told reporters in response to [...]
MANILA, Philippines - A 30-something Beijing-based yuppie, a stranded former student leader turned CNN Bureau chief and his ‘China-made’ daughter will take part in the on-going Olympic torch relay.
Marco Antonio Torres, 38, a marketer for international firm, M Moser Associates; CNN Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz; and his daughter, Michelle, 17; were selected by the [...]
BEIJING, China – It was ‘a grand night for singing’ as the world renowned University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers enthralled the full house audience at the 21st Century Hotel here in the Chinese capital last June 5.
The “Madz,” as they are more popularly called, were in invited by the Philippine Embassy in China to [...]
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