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<title>More teenagers in LA infected with HIV</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:52:59 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ There has been a jump in newly diagnosed HIV cases among young gay men in Los Angeles, according to a report. 

    From 2001 to 2006, such cases among all gay males ages 13 to 24 rose by 12 percent, said the report published by the Los  ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[ There has been a jump in newly diagnosed HIV cases among young gay men in Los Angeles, according to a report. 

    From 2001 to 2006, such cases among all gay males ages 13 to 24 rose by 12 percent, said the report published by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. 

    The steepest increase was among young gay blacks -- up 15 percent, compared with 8 percent for young gay Latinos and 9 percent for young gay whites, according to the report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

    Dr. Wilbert C. Jordan, medical director of the OASIS Clinic at the Martin Luther King Jr. Multi-Service Ambulatory Care Center in Los Angeles, confirmed the increase on the ground, particularly in Southern Los Angeles, the paper said. 

    In the last 15 months, the HIV clinic has gone from treating one teenage patient to treating 47. This month the clinic will begin a program on Saturdays just for adolescents. Jordan expects to have 100 teenage patients before the end of the year. 

    Many of his patients are kids who got kicked out of their homes for being gay or experimenting with sex with another boy, Jordan said. So, he said, they went to West Hollywood, prostituted themselves for food, contracted HIV and now are back in South Los Angeles, infecting their friends. 

    "The first wave got infected outside of the community," he said. "The second wave are those getting infected in South-Central."      

Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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<title>Millions Watch Olympic-Themed Movies</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:52:05 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[More than 800 residents from 24 villages in Huairou in suburban Beijing gathered at a plaza to watch two Olympic-themed films on Saturday. 

    At the same time, nearly 10 million moviegoers nationwide watched the same two films, includi ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[More than 800 residents from 24 villages in Huairou in suburban Beijing gathered at a plaza to watch two Olympic-themed films on Saturday. 

    At the same time, nearly 10 million moviegoers nationwide watched the same two films, including the survivors of quake-hit Sichuan Province, the website QQ.com reported. 

    The event was an important part of the fourth Beijing International Sports Film Week under this year's theme "Experience the civilization and enjoy the Olympic Games." 

    With the introduction of digital technology, the cost of screening movies has become less expensive. This year, event organizers decided to show films in rural areas as public cultural events. More and more villagers now will be able to see movies in front of their homes with the aid of mobile movie teams, the report said. 

Source: CRIENGLISH.com]]></full-text>
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<title>"Hancock" sparks box office fireworks over Independence Day weekend</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:50:58 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sony Pictures' superhero movie "Hancock" sparked the box office fireworks over this Independence Day weekend in the United States, breaking the 100-million-dollar sale mark in its first week of release, preliminary figures released Sunday s ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[Sony Pictures' superhero movie "Hancock" sparked the box office fireworks over this Independence Day weekend in the United States, breaking the 100-million-dollar sale mark in its first week of release, preliminary figures released Sunday showed. 

    The Will Smith action film about a down-on-his-luck superhero, opened on Tuesday before the Fourth of July holiday, will take in estimated 107.3 million dollars in North America by the close of business Sunday night, according to box office tracking firm Media By Numbers. 

    Meanwhile, "Hancock" easily bested Disney-Pixar animation feature "Wall-E" for the weekend-only crown, taking in about 66 million dollars over the three-day period.

Cast members Will Smith (L), Charlize Theron and Jason Bateman (R) pose at the movie premiere of "Hancock" at Grauman's Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California June 30, 2008. The movie opens in the U.S. on July 2.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo)   
  Last week's box office leader "Wall-E" is expected to sell impressive 33.4 million dollars this weekend, bringing a two-week total of 128.1 million dollars for the animated robot romance. 

    Universal's action thriller "Wanted" from Universal was in third place this weekend with estimated 20.6 million dollars in ticket sales, followed by Warner Bros' spy action "Get Smart" and Dream Work Animation's "Kung Fu Panda" with 11.1 million and 7.5 million dollars respectively. 

    The weekend also saw teen movie adaptation of "An American Girl" book, "Kit Kittredge: All American Girl," sneak in the back door of the top ten. The film starring popular child actress Abigail Breslin was in eighth place with 3.6 million dollars. 

    Hollywood's overall business slipped for the first time in a month, as the top-selling 12 films took in 158.5 million dollars collectively, down 4 percent from the same period last year, when Dream Work's "Transformers" opened. 
 
Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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<title>Story behind Olympic dancing man's seal of approval</title>
<NEWS_ID>6443149</NEWS_ID>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:48:57 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One year after Beijing won the rights to host the Games, organizers launched a contest in a bid to find a special logo for China's largest public event. 

    Seasoned advertising man, Guo Chunning, beat 1,300 other professionals with his ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[One year after Beijing won the rights to host the Games, organizers launched a contest in a bid to find a special logo for China's largest public event. 

    Seasoned advertising man, Guo Chunning, beat 1,300 other professionals with his entry - a powerful seal, which drew from history and reflected China's modern progress. 

   Seal cutting is a time-honored art among the literati and dates back to the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). The Chinese character for a seal is composed of two words: zhua, which means hand, and jie, a tally issued by a ruler to generals or envoys as credentials. 

    Originally, dukes and princes handed a tally to their trustees to perform a difficult mission. The seal stood for conferment, responsibility and obligation. 

    As a symbol for trust and promise, a seal paves the way for clear communication and authenticity of the message. 

    Chinese believe winning the 2008 bid represented both the trust of the Olympic family as well as a promise made on behalf of the 1.3 billion Chinese people. 

    On July 13, 2001, the Beijing delegation solemnly proclaimed in Moscow that China would go all out to make the 2008 Olympic Games a phenomenal success.     

    The unique seal serves as a testimony that "for the world's good faith in us, we shall requite with success and honor". 

    A Chinese seal is always red, which also symbolizes the burning Olympic flame. 

    For millenniums, red has been the color for supreme happiness, widely used for grand or blissful occasions. This auspicious color was chosen for the national flag when the People's Republic of China was established in 1949. 

    A seal was also part of a Chinese scholar's standard paraphernalia. 

    As an art form, seal cutting imposes exact demands upon scholar-artists, in terms of calligraphy, layout and line. 

    One's work must be rich in flavor, grand and lofty in taste, effortless in craftsmanship, and most important of all, the work should in itself be rich with meaning. 

    The 2008 emblem is an amazing enigma for connoisseurs and veterans. 

    For one thing, it looks like the Chinese character of wen, short for wenhua, which means culture or civilization. 

    As one of the world's ancient civilizations, China contributes a rich legacy of sports. 

    Qigong and martial arts are but two of the most well-known varieties. Modern archery, shooting and skiing have evidently evolved from ancient Chinese recreation and sports. 

    The Olympic seal also resembles the Chinese character jing, which means Beijing, a city that has thousands of years of history. 

    From a different angle, one can also see a girl dancing with a red silk ribbon. She is full of youthful vigor and feminine grace and is welcoming guests and athletes from all over the world. 

    Another reading reveals a human figure sprinting to the finish line. He is celebrating Olympic athleticism and is the flower of life in full blossom. He is growing tall in the bright Olympic sun. 

    The designer finally chisels the English word "Beijing", and the Arabic figures "2008" together in archaic calligraphy styles.

     Source: China Daily]]></full-text>
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<title>Why we're staying</title>
<NEWS_ID>6443144</NEWS_ID>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:47:56 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[ The number of expats in China has soared in the lead-up to the Olympics. But with the Games set to begin a month from tomorrow, the question is: Is it true that what goes up must - or at least, in this case, will - come down? 

    Beiji ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[ The number of expats in China has soared in the lead-up to the Olympics. But with the Games set to begin a month from tomorrow, the question is: Is it true that what goes up must - or at least, in this case, will - come down? 

    Beijing especially has been buzzing with anticipation of a mass exodus of foreigners after the Games. 

    But will this mad rush to the airport become a post-Olympic reality? 

    Lindsay Oliver Klump, who heads talent and organizational consulting analytics for internationally leading human resources firm Hewitt Associates, doesn't believe so. 

    "The number of expats has been increasing in China over the years, and I suspect this trend will only continue," she says. 

(Photo Source: China Daily)
    By now, most expats in the country have taken note that - in a largely unexpected twist - a flight of foreigners has taken place before, rather than after, the Games, due to a recent tightening of visa restrictions. 

    Executive director of the German Chamber of Commerce (GCC) in Hong Kong Wolfgang Ehmann says the GCC hasn't researched the impacts of a post-Olympics exodus of foreigners, "since we do not expect any exodus". 

    But it has surveyed 512 firms about the limiting of multiple-entry visas. Nearly 80 percent of the 46 responders said they believed the restrictions would negatively impact their operations, while more than 40 percent anticipate "an unfavorable impact over the medium and long term". 

    "In any case, we will have to wait until October, when everyone assumes the normal practice of issuing visas will resume. If this does not happen, then I think we will have to anticipate more people and companies leaving," Ehmann says. 

    American Noah Binder was "one of the lucky ones" who was able to get a visa extension until the summer of 2009. The 27-year-old plans to teach English and do environmental work in Beijing, and says he would be glad if the number of foreigners dropped off after August. 

    "As I work as an English tutor, a mass exodus of foreigners can only help me financially," Binder says. 

    Many expats who have had to leave because of the new visa policy plan to return after the Games, meaning there could be a wave of returnees in the autumn. Guatemalan architect Frisly Colop-Morales says about half the foreigners he knows have had to leave but adds: "They all will come back in October." 

    Colop-Morales was among those foreigners for whom the Games provided much of the allure for relocating to China. 

    "The Olympics were the trigger for the Chinese economic boom, which increased the opportunities for people in the architectural field and therefore made China the place to be for architects," says the 29-year-old, who came to Beijing in August 2006. 

    However, he plans to stick around to witness firsthand the changes of the post-Olympic period. 

    "I'm looking forward to seeing in which direction the architectural development turns after this period of massive construction," Colop-Morales says. 

    When Singaporean Kalyani Iyer was awarded a research fellowship last year, she says she could have chosen to use it anywhere in the world. 

    "I picked Beijing for a number of reasons, but the Olympics was one of them," the 25-year-old says. 

    However, she plans to stay another year after the Games are over. 

    If anything, she says she expects an influx of new expats after the Olympics, "who would come here to appreciate the new infrastructure, the new buildings, the new restaurants", built for the Games. 

    American Julian Herbstein, who came to Beijing four months ago to start his own business, agrees. 

    He says that the departure of foreigners, most of whom would be directly involved in Olympics-related work, would be a "blip". 

    "Any exodus of those people would be supplanted with an influx of people who would come after being intrigued by a two-week (showcase) of a China they nevde an e	拜-H]]></full-text>
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<title>One more Chinese property added to World Heritage List</title>
<NEWS_ID>6443137</NEWS_ID>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:46:06 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One more Chinese property was inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday during the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee that is taking place in this eastern Canadian city. 

    The 21 members of the committee agreed to ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[One more Chinese property was inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List Sunday during the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee that is taking place in this eastern Canadian city. 

    The 21 members of the committee agreed to add Tulou, the uniqueresidential architecture of Fujian Province in southeastern China, on the World Heritage List as a cultural site, bringing the total number of Chinese properties on the list to 36. 

    Built from the 11th century to the 20th century in the mountainous areas across Fujian and neighboring provinces, the Tulou buildings were aimed at meeting the requirements of a whole clan to live together. They also serve other functions such as defense. 

    A Tulou building usually consists of rammed earth outer wall and internal wooden framework. Its unique structural form and ingenious interior design highlights the interdependent relation between clan members who live inside and demonstrates the development process of their life style. 

    In layout, the buildings nestled among hills and streams are harmonious with nature, reflecting Chinese traditional architectural designs, the Fengshui practices and the concept of unification between man and nature. 

    In addition, the Tulou buildings have nurtured local ways of production and lifestyles and fostered colorful intangible cultures. 

    In recommending the inscription of the Tulou buildings, ICOMOS, the professional evaluation institution of the World Heritage Committee, praised their breath-taking magnificence, unique and exquisite style as well as their durable and ingenious structure, saying they present a unique charm and outstanding universal value. 

    Starting from Sunday, members of the World Heritage Committee are examining the nominations of a total 47 cultural and natural sites submitted by 41 countries for inscription on UNESCO's World Heritage List. 

    UNESCO's 1972 Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage now protects 851 properties of "outstanding universal value," including 660 cultural, 166 natural and 25 mixed properties in 141 States Parties. 

    The 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee opened July 3 and will last until July 10. 

    During the session, the committee will also review the state of conservation of the 30 World Heritage sites inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger and may decide to add new sites to that list of properties whose preservation requires special attention.
 
Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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<title>High-tech exam cheat caught using radios in E China</title>
<NEWS_ID>6443133</NEWS_ID>
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<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:45:15 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Education authorities in east China say they smashed a ring that used high-tech radio transmitters and receivers to help students cheat in the national college entrance exams. 

    The ring involved at least 33 people, including nine hig ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[Education authorities in east China say they smashed a ring that used high-tech radio transmitters and receivers to help students cheat in the national college entrance exams. 

    The ring involved at least 33 people, including nine high school graduates who sat the exams last month, providing answers to questions through the Internet and radios, said officials in Zhejiang Province. 

    The cheating was discovered when a surveillance patrol vehicle picked up radio transmissions near the Yongkang No.1 Middle School, where exams were being held, the Zhejiang-based City Express News reports on Sunday. 

    Law enforcement officers apprehended 15 people in a coffee bar across a river from the school. The others were caught in another two operations. 

    They allegedly admitted they had transmitted test answers to students who were sitting the exam. The suspects outside the exam site were parents or relatives of the nine students. 

    The students are alleged to have worn tiny earphones. 

    Three college students from Yongkang City are also being investigated for allegedly providing test answers via the Internet from southwest China's Guizhou Province. 

    One of the students surnamed Xu allegedly said he heard the answers could be provided for 12,000 yuan to 16,000 yuan (1,740 to 2,320 U.S. dollars). Xu is also alleged to have paid 1,600 yuan for the specially-designed communication system, including a transmitter, receiver, earphone and walkie-talkies. 

    Xu allegedly said he used the device in the first test on Chinese, but did not use it again in the afternoon maths test because he had heard some had been caught cheating. 

    Under college entrance exam rules, cheating examinees will be denied college entrance for two years. Regulations in Zhejiang require instances of cheating to be permanently recorded in student files, which could affect their future credit records. 

    A record 10.5 million Chinese sat the national college entrance exams this year. Roughly half will get a place in college.

Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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<title>Thai official: Controversial temple likely to be approved as World Heritage site</title>
<NEWS_ID>6442936</NEWS_ID>
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<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:06:26 +0800</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Attempts by Cambodia to list the controversial Preah Vihear temple, which stands across the area of both Cambodia and Thailand, as a World Heritage site during the current United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UN ...]]></description>
<full-text><![CDATA[Attempts by Cambodia to list the controversial Preah Vihear temple, which stands across the area of both Cambodia and Thailand, as a World Heritage site during the current United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) annual session held in Canada's Quebec City, are expected to bear fruit, according to Thailand's World Heritage Committee. 

    Pongpol Adireksarn, chairman of the committee and currently attending the UNESCO session, said that more than half of the 21 World Heritage Committee members had told him informally that they favored the Cambodian government's registration of the ancient temple as a World Heritage site as it had "untiringly pursued the issue on a constant basis", the official Thai News Agency reported on Sunday. 

    He quoted committee members as telling him that the concerned Phnom Penh government had also invited them to visit the temple, unlike Thailand whose "policy was uncertain" and whose government changed frequently, the report said. 

    The temple issue is expected to be conferred by the World Heritage Committee on Sunday night, Thailand time. 

    The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), a non-governmental organization, had distributed reports to the committee, saying that the listing of the temple alone as a World Heritage site would pose no problem for the consideration, said Pongpol. 

    But the ICOMOS recommended that both Cambodia and Thailand should jointly propose that the surrounding area to the temple should also be included as the World Heritage site. 

    Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama, attending the session as an observer, is expected to oppose and delay the listing of the temple following the Thai Administrative Court's temporary injunction against the June 17 cabinet approval of the joint communique he signed with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Sok An. 

    Noppadon said in Quebec that he would prepare a letter and lobby the Committee to delay the listing of the temple. 
 
Source: Xinhua]]></full-text>
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