Source:Source:http://voice.unimelb.edu.au/volume-7/number-8/world-university-games| Volume 7 Number 8 August 15 – September 11 2011 As sporting enthusiasts are looking forward to London’s Olympic Games next year, and looking back at yesteryear’s Commonwealth Games in Delhi, you could easily be forgiven for thinking that 2011 was bereft of any major athletic sporting games. Laura Soderlind reports. For people whose…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Tina Chen Work on 12 projects in Luohu District would start in September to renovate the city’s oldest district which had been overshadowed by rapid development in Futian and Nanshan in recent years, a news conference was told Wednesday. The 12 projects costing 23.9 billion yuan (US$3.68 billion) would include the renovation…
Two representatives from Kazan, Russia, which will hold the next Universiade in 2013, accompany Igor Shuvalov, first deputy prime minister of Russia, as he brandishes the flag of the International University Sports Federation at the closing ceremony of the 26th Universiade in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Tuesday, Aug 23.[Photo/China Daily] The games were the largest…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Tina Chen Exports surged from January to April this year in Shenzhen by 46.7 percent on last year, faster than China’s average. Shenzhen Customs said that exports reached US$75 billion, resulting in its trade surplus rising to US$21.1 billion, widening by 61.2 percent, according to a report in Thursday’s Shenzhen Economic Daily.…
Source:http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/sports/shenzhen2011/2011-08/10/content_13088601.htm | Author:Xinhua SHENZHEN – The 570-strong Shenzhen Universiade News Service Team (UNS) has fully geared up to provide Olympic standard support to more than 3,000 journalists, UNS Director General He Huifei told Xinhua here Wednesday. “This is the first time for a UNS to meet Olympic stardard,” He said. “In a sense, we are…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Tina Chen New homes with capped prices in Longhua Subdistrict, Bao’an District, experienced brisk sales on the first day of the launch Saturday. Prices of the Top Spring Residential Estate Phase III apartments were capped by the government at 3,000 yuan (US$463) per square meter below the market price, yesterday’s Shenzhen Economic…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Li Hao THE China Bio-industry Convention 2011 (BioChina) is scheduled for Shenzhen between June 17 and 19, according to the city development and reform commission. The convention was expected to attract 300 domestic enterprises in the biotechnology industry, including big players like Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), which has sequenced the genome of…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Li Hao The China Bio-industry Convention 2011 (BioChina) is scheduled for Shenzhen between June 17 and 19, according to the city development and reform commission. The convention was expected to attract 300 domestic enterprises in the biotechnology industry, including big players like Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), which has sequenced the genome of…
Source:Shenzhen Daily | Author:Martin Li BAO’AN People’s Court has given two employees of Foxconn, a contract manufacturer of Apple products, sentences of 12 and 14 months respectively for stealing and selling technical data concerning the popular iPad2. Another man, Xiao Chengsong, a legal representative of Shenzhen Maituo Electric Co., was sentenced to 18 months for…
Source: SD News SHENZHEN scientists released a third version of the assembled genome of the deadly new E. coli strain and diagnostic kits for rapid identification of the highly infectious bacterium Tuesday. The new assembly, developed by the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) Shenzhen and researchers at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, provides a more complete…