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"Olympic Fine Arts 2008," a cultural event organized by the International Olympic Committee and Chinese Olympic Committee, kicked off here Thursday morning.
The organizers will invite well-known artists from over 80 countries and regions to display their works in the event, whose themes are "Sports and Olympism" and "China, the World." |
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China released a special set of stamps to commemorate the "Year of the Rat," according to the Chinese lunar calendar, Xinhua News Agency reported.
A release ceremony was held in Changshun County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, as the Shuchang post office there is the only one that contains the Chinese character for "mouse" in its name. Many people rushed to the county to obtain the rat indicia, which only can be postmarked in Changshun. |
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BEIJING, Dec. 28 -- A harmonious way to ring in 2008 is to attend the New Year's concert at the 10,000-seat Great Hall of the People under the baton of conductor Zubin Mehta. The world-famous conductor is known for four New Year's concerts in Vienna. But Mehta is no stranger to China, having visited the country six times.
Leading the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, he will open the show with a score called Olympic Fanfare to mark the start of the year of the Olympic Games in Beijing. Other works would include Anton Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 From the New World, Johann Strauss II's Where Lemon Trees Bloom and Edward Strauss's Ohne Bremse Polka Schnell Op. 238, organizers say. |
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The number of operators working on the city's
emergency help line who are able to speak a foreign language is to be quadrupled by 2010, to give foreigners better access to police assistance, the public security bureau said yesterday.
The number will be increased from 23 to about 100 by the year Shanghai holds the World Expo, it said. |
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