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Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:52
CANBERRA, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Rare 15th and 16th Century Italian renaissance paintings would be shown in Canberram, Australia this summer for the first time, said National Gallery of Australia's (NGA) on Tuesday.
More than 70 works by Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini, Titian, Carpaccio and Perugino, have been loaned to NGA, at the time when the art academy and gallery located in northern Italy undergoes renovations.
According to NGA director Ron Radford, he had been negotiating the deal for th ...
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&$Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during the book launch ceremony of the Chinese edition of his memoir A Journey in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 30, 2011. (Xinhua/Li Fangyu)&$
&$Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during the book launch ceremony of the Chinese edition of his memoir A Journey in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 30, 2011. (Xinhua/Li Fangyu)&$
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:33
BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- The Ministry of Culture has ordered domestic websites to halt playback and download services for 100 songs from other markets that were not officially approved before being uploaded to the Internet.
"A website that is engaged in the operation of an online music product must go through procedures with the ministry before providing playback and download services for the song on the Internet," Li Jian, an official in the ministry's department of cultural markets, ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:24
WELLINGTON, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Middle-aged women who wolf down their meals are much more likely to be overweight or obese than women who eat slower, New Zealand research has found.
In what they claimed to be the first such nationwide study anywhere, Otago University researchers analyzed the relationship between self-reported speed of eating and body mass index (BMI) in more than 1,500 New Zealand women aged 40 to 50, an age group known to be at high risk of weight gain.
The study by the u ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:22
BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Men who are light sleepers are at increased risk for developing high blood pressure, suggests a study published Monday in Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School found that men who got less deep sleep, also called slow-wave sleep, had an 80-percent higher chance of having high blood pressure compared to men with higher levels of slow-wave sleep.
The link held regardless o ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:18
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- A Peking University professor has been removed from teaching post after his affair with a woman who allegedly blackmailed him was exposed by local media, according to a statement from the university Sunday.
The statement said that the professor, whose name has not been officially released, had acted unethically as a teacher and seriously blemished the reputation of the university.
An investigation team was organized by Peking University immediately after the re ...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011 15:17
WELLINGTON, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese woman who was threatened with deportation for studying at a New Zealand university without a valid visa has had her degree conferred, New Zealand media reported Tuesday.
Auckland-based AUT University told Mengna Wang, 23, earlier this year that she could not graduate because she did not hold a valid student permit, but last week awarded her a Bachelor of Business degree.
AUT spokeswoman Barbara Bilcich told the New Zealand Herald newspaper that the ...
Monday, 29 August 2011 20:58
Authorities in charge of the manned space program unveiled plans on Monday to build a 60-ton space station, made up of three capsules, and develop a cargo spaceship to transport supplies.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office said at a news conference that it also wants the public to get involved by suggesting names for the space station, due to completed around 2020.
According to documents provided by the office, the space station, weighing about 60 tons, is composed of a core ...
Monday, 29 August 2011 20:45
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China plans to launch Chang'e-2, the country's second lunar probe, at the end of 2010, space authorities announced yesterday.
The design and production of Chang'e-2 is complete, and the lunar orbiter is undergoing ground tests, the State Administration of Science Technology and Industry for National Defense said yesterday in a news release.
Chang'e-2 is expected to test the soft-landing technological capabi ...
Monday, 29 August 2011 20:44
After years of development, China's space technology is close to moon landing capability, said Fu Yiqing, space expert and consultant to the Shanghai Institute of Space Propulsion (SISP).
Fu, also a senior member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), said this during an interview with reporters form China News Service.
New generations of Chinese taikonauts are studying moon landing technology. Although there is no big problem in the overall technical aspects of mo ...
Monday, 29 August 2011 20:43
China is to put an unmanned space module into space in 2010, a space expert said in Beijing Wednesday.
Weighing about 8.5 tonnes, Tiangong-1 is able to perform long-term unattended operation, which will be an essential step toward building a space station.
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