China Comes to Dinner
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The Group of Seven industrialized nations invited top Chinese economic officials to a dinner last Friday. It was about time that China was invited to a G-7 meeting.
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin arrived in Ankara Sunday evening, with his wife. In the dinner hosted to him by President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, he said that âWe came to Turkey to take bold decisions.
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China accounts for about half of the  global annual death toll from stomach cancer due to the Chinese  taste for pickled and smoked food and unabashed enthusiasm for  smoking, the official Xinhua news agency said.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - While winter snowstorms cancelled many reunion dinners, Beijingers started the New Year with a spending spree, shelling out millions on festive gifts and goods, Xinhua news agency said.
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China's cuisine is being altered by the growing ppularity of fast food, with Chinese now more likely than Americans to eat takeout meals.
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Given the weekly food sirens from China, and the suspicious nature of Olympians, athletes in Beijing will no doubt need a reservation for a training table with made-in-America cuisine.
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WASHINGTON : China, invited to the table of the world&#39;s top financial powers for the first time, did not appear to buckle to pressure to speed up moves to adjust or end a currency peg that many say distorts global trade flows.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao have met with visiting Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi in Beijing.
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ZHUANGCUN, China  - Nothing is more important to Yangyang than being with family to ring in China's Lunar New Year, but sometimes she feels the annual reunion is more bitter than sweet.
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Visiting Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi and his wife cut a birthday cake at Xijiao Guesthouse in Shanghai yesterday.
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China will participate in a special meeting with the Group of Seven industrialized countries on Oct. 1, the U.S. Treasury said yesterday, an announcement that could herald Beijing's eventual membership in the elite economic club.
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By Ellen Whyte  WHEN the family is gathered together to celebrate Chinese New Year this weekend, young adults looking for a little postprandial rest away from noisy junior members might want to venture into online treasure hunt.
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Domestic consumers, not foreign press, led to China's new food-safety strategy.
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The men and women with smiles on their faces and drinks in their hands had come a long way for dinner -- all the way from Iraq, in fact.
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A CITY will hold its traditional Chinese New Ye
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SHANGHAI/SEATTLE  - In his first official visit to  the United States in 2006, China President Hu Jintao arrived  for dinner at Microsoft Corp.  Chairman Bill Gates'  house with a gift for the host.
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French President Jacques Chirac arrived in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu for a four-day state visit centering on economic cooperation.