Chinese Unveil Mammoth Arts Center
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The National Center for the Performing Arts, a $400 million complex, has attracted at least as much attention for its cost overruns, safety concerns and provocative aesthetics.
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âThe Awakening,â J. Seward Johnson Jr.âs 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth, is soon to leave a site near the National Mall that millions of tourists have visited.
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Shuttle buses without drivers, trains floating on magnetic fields and other visions of the future will be on display at Japan's world fair next year. But Expo 2005's centerpiece will be rooted deep in the past &#151; the frozen remains of a woolly mammoth.
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MGM Mirage, the world's No.2 casino  operator, opens a 600-room, Las Vegas-style resort in Macau on  Tuesday, raising the stakes in a Chinese gambling haven  increasingly crowded by global players.
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BEIJING China on Wednesday opened its ancient capital of Xi&#39;an and an industrial city in the northeast to overseas banks, a year earlier than planned, as it eases restrictions on their expansion.
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A college to provide training for the Internet games industry has been opened in Beijing. Xinhua, China&#39;s main government-run news agency, reported Saturday that China&#39;s Ministry
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Zhang Jianhuaâs temerity in representing Chinese coal miners through life-size sculpture has earned his work what might be called a soft ban.
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The China-specific online video gaming host is set to become a multigame operation.
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A refurbished 1950's-era weapons factory in China has become a haven for avant-garde art.
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China has opened an exhibition to mark the 111th anniversary of the birthday of late Chairman Mao Zedong whose embalmed body is on display in the same building, state media report.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - On a wintery lunchbreak before Lunar New Year, Beijingers in puffy jackets lean over glass cases of gleaming rat figurines and Olympics trinkets at the city's largest gold store.
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A large-scale renovation of the mausoleum of Genghis Khan, a proud son of Heaven for his time and founder of the Mongol empire of the Middle Ages, is underway in north China&#39;s Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.
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Fifty impressionist masterpieces by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other French artists are headed for China for a unprecedented three-city, six-month tour due to begin next month.
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Beijing - The Tibetan capital Lhasa has launched a renovation drive to keep its original ethnic flavour after years of unrestrained urban development filled the city with modern architecture, China&#39;s state media said Monday.
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Qingdao city raised the curtain on China's largest-ever regatta with a display of pomp and glitz worthy of an Olympic ceremony, foreshadowing what may come at the 2008 Games in Beijing.
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Travel: Â· Beijing terminal to open on time and within budgetÂ· Huge pool of labourers helped speed up project
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Thousands of trees will be planted at the fire-ravaged birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games to restore the area ahead of the Beijing 2008 flame-lighting ceremony in March, officials said Tuesday.