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US: Asia rebalance will avoid budget ax

[2013-04-09 11:48]

A high-ranking Pentagon official said the US' much-discussed "strategic rebalance" to the Asia-Pacific region won't fall victim to budget turmoil in Washington.

Hollywood's tact could open up doors, wallets

[2013-04-09 11:48]

Earlier this week, Robert Downey Jr arrived in Beijing to promote Iron Man 3 following the announcement that the film's next installment would include extra scenes for Chinese audiences.

Cornell ' formula may help solve Ningxia's soil erosion

[2013-04-09 11:48]

A compost of wood chips from poplar trees developed by Cornell University scientists may be part of a solution to huge soil-erosion problems in northwest China.

Lottery held to decide who gets American work visa

[2013-04-09 11:48]

Dong Jie says if he doesn't get one he will return to China. Vivian Li says if she fails to get one she will marry her fianc to stay in the United States.

Panelists say housing market won't crash

[2013-04-08 11:41]

A meltdown in China's housing market is unlikely because government policies will keep rising prices in check, a Columbia University business conference was told.

Language practitioners meet

[2013-04-08 11:41]

The National Chinese Language Conference, which began on Sunday in Boston, has drawn more participants in this, its sixth year.

Holiday honors ancestors and heralds spring

[2013-04-08 11:26]

New York's Museum of Chinese in America hosted activities on Saturday to acknowledge the traditional Chinese holiday and celebrate the arrival of spring.

Bryant University to open campus in Zhuhai

[2013-04-08 11:26]

Rhode Island's Bryant University has been cultivating a relationship with China for 15 years through study-abroad and exchange programs.

Across Americas

[2013-04-05 12:02]

Crusading for recognition for 'work of literary genius'

[2013-04-05 11:53]

In an office littered with thousands of notes inscribed on stacked paper flash cards, David Tod Roy has labored on what he calls his "life's work" for three decades.

Wang inspires a future generation

[2013-04-05 11:53]

When he was 7 years old, Liang Wang fell in love with the sound of the oboe watching his uncle play in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake in China. Ever since, Liang has been pursuing a career in music.

A steamy sampling of Chinese art

[2013-04-05 11:53]

Once categorized as a "melting pot," the US has in recent years seen the rise of a competing analogy: "the salad bowl," a mix of ingredients and toppings that don't so much as melt together as mix for a blend of distinct flavors. A new exhibition in Vermont attempts to demonstrate the same principle, as applied to a particularly Chinese parallel: the communal hotpot. For more than a millennia, Chinese have gathered around the broth stew of meat, vegetables and other ingredients- no dish exactly the same.

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