China to host first stewardess beauty pageant
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Beijing, Sept 4. (PTI): China will host the first International Stewardess Beauty Pageant in early November in Zhuhai in south China&#39;s Guangdong Province, the organisers announced today.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in Sweden on Friday for the first ever Chinese state visit to the Scandinavian country, airport officials said.
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China plans to launch its third manned space mission that will feature its first-ever space walk during 2008, state media said Tuesday.
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SANYA, China: China&#39;s sleepy tropical resort of Sanya was buzzing with energy Saturday as beauty queens made last-minute preparations for the hotly anticipated finale of the 2004 Miss World contest.
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China unveiled its first domestically  developed regional aircraft on Friday, moving a step closer to  its goal of becoming an aviation giant and challenging the  dominance of Boeing  and Airbus.
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BEIJING: China can expect to see the first commercial space flights in 20 years, the head of the country&#39;s space program was quoted as saying by state media.
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China chose its first Miss Artificial  Beauty on Saturday, giving the crown to a 22-year-old from the  northeastern city of Jilin who couldn't have done it without  the help of her plastic surgeon.
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Next weekend's inaugural Chinese Grand  Prix could be the most significant race in the history of  Formula One.
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The main stadium for next year's Beijing Olympic Games, the $400 million "bird's nest," will open to the public for the first time in April to host a test event, a state newspaper said on Thursday.
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THE race may be on only this Sunday, but already, Shanghai is in high gear for Formula One. For one thing, the organisers of the first-ever Chinese Grand Prix had no problem filling the seats in their enormous stands.
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China is to launch its first private airline, named Okay Airways, state media reports.
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Olympic athletes may be allowed to blog for the first time at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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The first airliner from Taiwan to land in Beijing in more than 55 years touched down in the Chinese capital on Saturday to fanfare as part of special charter flights between the arch-foes for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
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Twenty-year-old Miss Peru was crowned  Miss World on Saturday in a southern Chinese resort town, as  China looks to become the regular host of an event that would  have once been deemed heretical by its Communist leaders.
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China's annual parliament meeting begins in Beijing with an address by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao.
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The pageant will be televised on September 30.
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Women from 86 countries prepared to sashay in bikinis and evening gowns Sunday &#151; and perhaps talk a little about world peace &#151; for the final competition in the Miss Universe pageant, held in the United States for the first time in eight years.