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Saturday Jan 04, 2025

Making violins to touch the heartstrings

Na Wei’s workshop, where the violins are made.   When the violinmaker starts preparing to make an instrument, he must first of all consider his choice of materials and create a design strategy. The rough flitches of wood used for the belly and back plates are glued together with joints that must last perhaps for […]

Volunteers leave to teach in Gansu

Liu Beibei, Han Ximin EIGHTY volunteers selected from more than 400 applicants for a charity teaching program in the earthquake-devastated Gansu Province left Shenzhen on Thursday. They will teach at Wenxian and Kangxian counties in Longnan City for a year. The program was launched jointly by two Shenzhen companies. CATIC gave 2 million yuan (US$) […]

The rocky start of transformation

SEZ development satisfactory World famous Italian correspondent Oriana Fallaci asked Deng a question during an interview in the fall of 1980, when the China’s first SEZs sprang up to catch the attention of Western media. “Bringing foreign capital into China will inevitably give rise to private investment. Won’t this lead to miniaturized capitalism?” A confident […]

Russia completes last eight lineup

“Our problem is we have only two days to recover.” Russia completes last eight lineup  DATA: 2008-06-20 Russia’s Dutch head coach Guus Hiddink celebrates his side’s 2-0 win at the end of the group D match between Russia and Sweden in Innsbruck, Austria, on Wednesday. SD-Agencies   Angelos Haristeas, who scored the winner in the Euro […]

Day 13: Jamaica completes sweep of sprint golds

By Sportswriter Gao Peng Defending champion Veronica Campbell-Brown won the women’s 200m race on Thursday at the Beijing Olympics to complete a clean sweep of sprint gold medals for Jamaica. Campbell-Brown clocked a personal best time of 21.74 seconds, beating two-time world champion Allyson Felix of the United States into second place in 21.93. Jamaica […]

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