Monday, May 23, 2005

News

Ground calligraphy popular among Chinese: Participators write on the ground during a ground calligraphy contest in Xiangfan, central China's Hubei Province. Ground calligraphy, using long brush pens soaked in water writing huge Chinese characters on the ground, is a creative branch of Chinese calligraphy, along with calligraphy with fingers.

Can China build its own Silicon Valley?: "Zhongguancun" doesn't roll off the Western tongue easily, but it will soon be an address that technology investors must learn. For 25 years, locales from Singapore to the south of France have tried to create their own Silicon Valleys, but the original's remarkable spirit has never been duplicated. China, however, is putting the finishing touches on its own Silicon Valley -- and this time, they may have found the recipe.

China rushes in bird flu vaccine: China has sent three million doses of bird flu vaccine to western Qinghai province after migrating wild geese were found there killed by the virus.


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