Thursday, June 20, 2013
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Taking a toll
No end in sight to highway fees

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Russia believes a newly released US report on human trafficking is politicized and hampers the work of law enforcement agencies in other countries, the Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

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The South Korean government will build a friendship bridge crossing the Yangon River to link urban Yangon with Dala township, the other bank of Yangon river, local daily reported Thursday.

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Top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang met here Thursday afternoon with Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang.

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A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Thursday that China strongly condemns a Wednesday suicide bombing that killed 22 people including UN employees in Mogadishu, Somalia.

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Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo will pay an official visit to China from June 24 to 28, a spokesperson for China's Foreign Ministry announced Thursday.

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Cyprus has categorically denied that it wants to renegotiate the terms of a bailout deal agreed with international lenders in March.

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Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao will address the second annual World Peace Forum at Tsinghua University on June 27, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman announced Thursday.

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Hong Kong's Consumer Price Index (CPI) fell to 3.9 percent year-on-year in May from 4.0 percent in April, mainly due to the smaller rise in the prices for fresh vegetables, the city's statistics department said here on Thursday.

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Good times, bad times
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." The opening sentence of A Tale of Two Cities by renowned British novelist Charles Dickens in 1859 still holds true for China's film market today.

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Gallic films galore
“Every time, when I finish a film, I hope to have a phone call from someone telling me, ‘I saw your film, and I believe you were just the right person to make it.’ It doesn’t matter who that person is. It could be anyone, even God,” French director Leos Carax recently told the Global Times in Shanghai. His latest film, Holy Motors, is being screened in the Panorama du Cinéma Français (Panorama of French Cinema) section at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF).

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Finger fashion tips
Nail beauty salons have been around for as long as facial and body beauty salons. Despite the industry's long existence, it is still experiencing a period of rapid growth in the Chinese mainland. And interestingly, while nail beauty is loved by women all around the world, consumers in the East and West often show different preferences in style.

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‘Despicable’ sequel
He may now be a doting dad marketing a range of jams and jellies, but Steve Carell's Gru character in the sequel to the animated supervillain children's comedy Despicable Me still longs for a little bit of the old criminal fun.

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Angela Pan: raising morale by leading a reading Renaissance
Angela Pan, the general manager of Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel in Chaoyang district, understands that part of her job is to share ideas with others and let others share ideas among themselves. One ideal way of doing this is through a book club.

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Movie Mogul
The ongoing 16th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) has been welcoming a plethora of filmmakers and celebrities from home and abroad. Among them is Sid Ganis, the successful Hollywood producer and former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, whose trip to Shanghai has given him a closer look at the Chinese film market.

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‘Sopranos’ star James Gandolfini dies in Italy
James Gandolfini, the burly actor best known for his Emmy-winning portrayal of a conflicted New Jersey mob boss in the groundbreaking cable TV series The Sopranos, died on Wednesday vacationing in Italy. He was 51.

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Veteran heavy-metal band Black Sabbath landed its first No.1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart on Wednesday, more than four decades after the rockers debuted their first album in the US.

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The stories of a dyslexic hero and a little girl who overcomes her family’s fear of a stray dog won two of Britain’s most coveted children’s literature prizes on Wednesday.

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Word Matters
"Your property management company also has a police car?"

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