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 ...

&$&$ BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) – Arecent national survey shows a strong growth in digital reading, with 252 million Chinese aged between 18 and 70 reading books and articles online in 2010 and about 83.6 percent of the respondents saying they would prefer the electronic version of a book if available. So will e-reading replace books one day? "There are now many ways of spreading knowledge like the computer, w ...

&$ &$Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks during the book launch ceremony of the Chinese edition of his memoir A Journey in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 30, 2011. (Xinhua/Li Fangyu)&$&$ BEIJING, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) -- Tony Blair, former British prime minister, inaugurated the publication of the Chinese edition of his memoirs, "A Journey", in Beijing on Tuesday. In the book's preface, Blair, who serve ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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&$Group wedding held for aerospace elites in Shanghai&$

&$ &$ &$Newlyweds from the aerospace industry pose for a photo during their group wedding held in Shanghai on May 30, 2011. On that day, 50 pairs of newlyweds from the aerospace industry tied the knot in Shanghai. Most of these newlyweds will take part in China's major aerospace projects after the wedding, such ...

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&$&$Edited and translated by Yao Chun, People's Daily Online&$&$ On Aug.28 an antique entrance ceremony was held in Wansong College, famous for the well-known folklore of Butterfly Lovers. More than 50 incoming students, dressed in traditional Chinese clothing, participated in the ceremonies in honor of Confucius, masters and Chinese brush for the purpose of understanding the history of this ancient college, the ancient learning stories and Chinese traditional customs.&$ Read more... Add new comment