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Director John Woo poses on the red carpet after he receives the Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement during the 67th Venice Film Festival.

Hong Kong film director John Woo (吳宇森) has been awarded the Venice Film Festival...

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Chinese Olympic pairs skaters, Zhao Hongbo (赵宏博) and Shen Xue (申雪), who won gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, are getting married on ice at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing Saturday. While legally married since 2007, the couple has not had a traditional Chinese wedding, which often includes food and festivities.

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The iconic Oriental Pearl Tower is located across from the Bund in Shanghai.

Shanghai, which is currently hosting Expo 2010 Shanghai, has been voted China's most popular city by nearly 8,000 foreigners worldwide who participated in a recent survey.

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CNN has a great story and pictures about the latest pooch trend in Beijing - dyeing dogs to look like other animals. Paying top dollar for dogs, doting on pooches with lavish trips to the spa and dressing them in designer dubs are not new trends. Giving them a dye job apparently is a new trend that has been popular at least since June when stories about it started appearing in western media outlets.

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Think your commute to work is rough? Imagine spending nine days in traffic. That's what folks traveling from Jining to Beijing along the Beijing-Tibet expressway are enduring.

The 62-mile traffic jam is being blamed on an influx of cargo trucks delivering produce, coal and other goods to China's capital and construction which has worsened the problem. The congestion is expected to continue until mid-September when the construction is scheduled to end. Price gouging on basic commodities like food and water has already been reported. Hmm...today's morning rush hour doesn't seem so bad after all.

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Posted Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:55 am CDT

Image © USA Pavilion

Before heading to Expo 2010 Shanghai, I wrote a blog post on my surprise over the USA Pavilion's price tag: $61 million. Soon after, I was invited by the folks at the USA Pavilion for a VIP tour. While in Shanghai last week, I toured the Pavilion and chatted with Martin Alintuck, President and CEO of the USA Pavilion, to get the inside scoop on the USA Pavilion and some answers about the cost.

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For years, American fast food chains like McDonald's and KFC have been tweaking their menus to satisfy palates around the world. In China, both restaurants feature their signature items like Happy Meals and fried chicken but some Asian-inspired treats too like spicy chicken sandwiches. Now, luxury brands are following this trend.

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Art Taipei 2010 (台北國際藝術博覽會), the longest-running art fair in Asia, opens today. Art Taipei 2010 is an annual international art fair featuring art from the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.

If you are in Taipei, a trip to Art Taipei 2010 provides a great opportunity to see a variety of Asian artists, explore Asian galleries and buy art from the affordable art section of the fair. Art Taipei 2010 runs until August 24. If you can't make it to this year's fair, you can support Art Taipei 2010 by becoming a fan on Facebook.

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It's official. Taiwan's parliament voted to approve the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA). ECFA is a trade agreement between mainland China and Taiwan that will lower tariffs on hundreds of Chinese and Taiwanese products. The vote means ECFA will become law in January 2011. It is hoped ECFA will make trade easier across the Taiwan Strait, but not everyone is happy.

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Flags are at half-staff around Shanghai and in the rest of China as the country holds a day of mourning for the victims of the landslides in Gansu province in northwest China. Last week's landslides were caused by days of heavy rain. The landslides killed 1,239 people and 505 people are missing.

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