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CHINA DAILY - Thursday November 5,2009
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SHANGHAI: Mickey Mouse and friends are on their way to Shanghai after long-awaited plans for a Disney theme park near China's financial hub got the thumbs-up from central authorities.
Nation
Customs officials across the country have been ordered to check every container labeled "waste" after mountains of discarded foreign garments were found in the coastal area of Guangdong province.
China Scene
Dogs give savior a gift in the form of cute puppies
Insight
Four months have passed since the bloody riots in Urumqi that killed almost 200 people and life has been slowly returning to normal.
Comment
The commitment, made by President Hu Jintao at the United Nations Climate Change Summit in September 2009, that China will reduce its carbon emission per unit GDP (carbon intensity) by a "notable margin" by 2020 compared with the 2005 levels, signals a qualitative change in China's policy on energy-saving and emission reduction.
Opinion
The crackdown on gangs in Chongqing has probably laid bare the evolution of criminals from street rogues to big-time thugs, successful businessmen and respectable politicians.
International
MOGADISHU: Somali courtship was different in Hassan Aden's day. When he was a teenager, you gave the girl's parents 11 camels and an AK-47 assault rifle as bride price and then waited respectfully.
International
BAGHDAD: Iraqi politicians have been turning up their rhetoric over Kirkuk, the oil-rich city that both Kurds in the north and Arabs in the south want to control.
Business
Global financial services giant Morgan Stanley is yet again looking to sell its entire holdings in China International Capital Corp (CICC), the country's first and most profitable investment bank, sources in both the US-based financial advisor and CICC confirmed yesterday.
Business
NEW YORK: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc will pay $26 billion to buy out Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp in a bet the nation's largest rail company will benefit from a recovering US economy.
Life
It's a celebration of what the human body can do when a performer defies the force of gravity, locks a foot on a pole and extends vertically, arms akimbo and horizontal to the ground. It's an affirmation of what human intelligence and mental strength can achieve, making bulky tigers jump through burning hoops, balancing drums on the soles of one's upturned feet and even playing on them.
Sports
On the football field, two false starts sets your team back 10 yards. For the National Football League, which has twice delayed exhibition games in China, the stakes are much higher.
Metro
Only 57 percent of the city's high-rise building cleaners, known as spider men, passed a new safety test.
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