China Cultural Chronicles November 27, 2012
- Silk Road Melons
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In China, your meal is not over until the water melon is served.
Location: On the outskirts of Kashgar along the Silk Road. - Scenery of Yangming Mountain in Taipei
Photo taken on Nov. 25, 2012 shows a scenery of the Yangming Mountain, a popular tourist spot in the northern suburb of Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan. [Xinhua]
- 贵阳到凯里的绿皮火车上
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拍了好多孩子，在夜市，在村寨，在火车上，在学校里……孩子对镜头有着天然的好奇，孩子也特别会直白地表达情绪。小姑娘和我们背靠背坐，一路都很安静。直到有人来推销玩具，一玩就很开心，妈妈不给买就大哭，我们给她吃柚子又变得很开心。
- France to ease visa procedures for Tunisian businessmen
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下载安装Flash播放器France will ease visa procedures for Tunisian businessmen, official TAP press agency reported Saturday quoting French ambassador Francois Gouyette.
Speaking to a group of businessmen in Tunisia's southern industrial city of Sfax, Gouyette said that from now on Tunisian businessmen living across the country would only need to travel to the capital Tunis once for visa formalities.
He said that the French embassy was mulling the possibility of enabling the French consulate general in Sfax to deliver visas for applicants living in southern towns.
France grants some 100,000 visas to Tunisians each year, the French diplomat said, noting that only 10 percent of visa applicants are turned down, making it one of lowest turn down rates in the Arab world and in Africa.
Such figures reflect France's commitment to further boost its relations with Tunisia, Gouyette said.
France is Tunisia's first trading partner and biggest donor country. Nearly 1 million Tunisians, out of a population of nearly 11 million, live and work in France, making it the largest Tunisian expatriate community in the world.
- Ski fields in Urumqi opens for business
People ski at a ski field some 38 kilometers south of Urumqi, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 24, 2012. Ski fields in Urumqi opened for business on Saturday as snow continued in northern Xinjiang this week. [Xinhua]
- Giant Panda portraits
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下载安装Flash播放器Under Edmund Chen's colored pencils, the pandas come alive on the commemorative stamps.
A Singaporean celebrity has designed a set of commemorative stamps featuring two star pandas that will be the island's latest residents from China. Valerie Ng talks to Edmund Chen about panda mania.
Chinese audiences know him as the hero of television serials imported from Singapore in the 1990s. Edmund Chen charmed a generation of TV viewers who became addicted to soap operas from Singapore.
Now Chen is in the limelight again, and the China connection this time is two of Singapore's newest residents - specially flown in on a four-hour flight from Sichuan's provincial capital Chengdu.
Giant panda Kai Kai and his female companion, Jia Jia, arrived in early September and are set to live in their brand new home for the next 10 years.
Singapore has welcomed its pandas in various ways, but featuring them in a set of commemorative stamps and first-day cover is a particularly attractive memento.
The man behind the cute and artistic designs is the same Edmund Chen, an ambassador for Singapore Post, or SingPost.
"Designing panda stamps is the dream of many designers," says Chen, in a phone interview. "They are not just any pandas, they are star pandas!"
Under his colored pencils, the adorable and lovable pandas come alive. They appear mischievous and active - rather than the stereotypically laid-back creatures they are often portrayed as.
The stamps show endearing close-ups of Jia Jia; and of Kai Kai perched on a tree while Jia Jia gives him a boost.
The differences between the pandas are obvious if you look closely.
- Tibetan Bridge
- Tibetan Macaques in the Jungle
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