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No Need for Talks on Nagorno-Karabakh with all Political Organizations, believes YAP

05.04.2008 18:59    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. The ruling party of Azerbaijan does not support the forum and adoption of a unified document with the participation of all the political parties on the settlement of Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. "The position of all the political parties on Nagorno-Karabakh


Azerbaijani ambassador to Russia: Azerbaijan is considering possible enlargement of OSCE MG format

05.04.2008 18:59    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Azerbaijan is considering various versions of enlargement of the Minsk Group's power and more active interference with the processes in the countries being in the MG but not being its co-chairs, namely: Italy, Finland, Belarus, as well as a

Ardshininvestbank Head Office officially opened in Yerevan

05.04.2008 18:59    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Ardshininvestbank Head Office was officially opened in Yerevan on April 4. Armenian President Robert Kocharyan stated at the opening ceremony that no Armenian bank has such an immense head office building. 'I think that this step by Ardshininvestbank will

Council of Heads of CIS Governments to discuss an agreement on currency regulation in May

05.04.2008 18:59    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. The Council of Heads of CIS Governments will consider an agreement on the basic principles of policy in the sphere of currency regulation and control in the CIS states, Vladimir Kiblov, the deputy head of the currency regulation department


Documents on mineral deposits in Armenia being digitized

05.04.2008 18:59    arminfo.info
ArmInfo. Armenia is digitizing the documents on mineral deposits. The materials will be available for the companies interested in exploration and exploitation of ore deposits, Armenian Environment Minister Aram Harutyunyan told ArmInfo correspondent.Digitization is being held at the Institute of

China lays foundation for memorial to Anti-Japanese air warfare

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Foundation was laid Friday in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province for a memorial to the anti-Japanese air warfare during World War Two. "The new memorial will be a twin sister of the Nanjing Massacre Memorial, commemo ...

Chinese mark first "official" Qingming with visits to deceased

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Some 600,000 people visited graveyards in the suburbs of Chinese capital Beijing on Friday, about triple last year's figure of 189,000, according to official statistics.

Nanjing mourns memory of those massacred in Japanese aggression

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
With no tombs to sweep for their deceased relatives, more than 100 people visited the Nanjing Memorial Hall of Compatriots Murdered in the Nanjing Massacre on Friday morning during the first day of the three-day Qingming Festival. ...

China remembers nation's ancestor Huangdi on Tomb-sweeping Day

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
More than 8,000 Chinese from home and abroad gathered Friday morning at the tomb of Huangdi, the legendary "Yellow Emperor" who is considered the common ancestor of all Chinese. The memorial ceremony started in Huangling County, Sha ...

Man's remains found in northeastern China zoo

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Bones and tattered clothing were found in the lion and tiger's enclosure at a zoo in China's northeastern Heilongjiang Province, an official confirmed on Friday. The remains were found at about 8:40 a.m. at the Beifang Forest Zoo in ...

Dalian holds world's 2nd biggest agricultural products exchange

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) has become the world's second biggest agricultural products futures exchange in terms of trading volume, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Futures Industry Association (FIA). The tradin ...

Forest fire quenched in north China's Inner Mongolia

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
A forest fire that broke out Friday in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region has been extinguished, local authorities said Saturday. The fire was spotted around 1:00 p.m. in the Kuizhonghe forestry farm of the Dayangshu Fo ...

More than 100 mln Chinese mourn for deceased on tomb-sweeping day

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
More than 100 million people mourned for the deceased at graveyards or memorial parks and halls on Qingming, or grave-sweeping day, on Friday, the Ministry of Civil Affairs estimated. Figures from the ministry's 150 monitoring place ...

People 'sign up' to slam media bias

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
A Chinese website is appealing to people around the world to "sign up" for its protest against alleged Western media bias in their coverage of last month's riots in Lhasa.The site, which can be accessed via news portal Sina.com, appeare

Turkish Grand National Assembly speaker to visit China

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Koksal Toptan, speaker of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey, is to pay an official goodwill visit to China from April 6 to 11. Toptan is invited by Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the

130,000 people take Chinese language test worldwide last year

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
About 130,000 people from across the world took the Chinese language test in 2007, according to the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. The HSK -- Chinese level test - - had established 66 exam sites

Major chain retailers in China witness surging sales growth in 2007

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Major chain retailers including both domestic and foreign businesses saw robust sales growth in China last year, according to the China Chain Store and Franchise Association (CCFA). Statistics from the CCFA show that combined sales ...

Dalian Petrochemical to become China's largest oil refining base

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
Dalian Petrochemical Co., a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), is to become China's largest oil refining base within this year, according to company sources. Seven advanced sets of oil refining equipment of D ...

Sinotruck's heavy duty truck hit monthly sales high

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Corp. (Sinotruck), one of the county's largest truck producer, sold a monthly record of 15,000 heavy duty trucks in March. Sales of heavy duty trucks in the first quarter hit 32,500 units, an in

Snapper stripped of top award

05.04.2008 16:18    english.people.com.cn
The Photojournalist Society of China (CPS) has stripped a photographer of a top award given for his picture of a vet vaccinating pigeons in front of Sophia Cathedral in Harbin, saying it was a fake, Beijing Youth Daily reported on

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