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Lost banking card leads to a world of trouble (China Daily)The owner of a lost banking card was taken to court in Foshan's Shunde district, Guangdong province, after someone found and used it. The man learned his banking card was used by some telephone crooks who used his account to receive money they stole from people.

Guangzhou to start chartered flights to Cebu next week (Manila Bulletin)By MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR. CEBU CITY – The Department of Tourism (DoT) has confirmed that the much-awaited twice-weekly chartered flights from Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong in China, to Cebu will finally start on July 9, further boosting the vibrant tourism industry of the province.

RMB takes first step towards internationalization (People's Daily)China allows Shanghai and four cities in the southern Guangdong province - Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Dongguan - to settle international trade using RMB on a pilot basis. Detailed measures to regulate the pilot program were released on July 2. This means that the internationalization of the RMB has taken the first step, but still has a long way to go. First, the pilot program for ...

Household appliance trade-in subsidy program to stimulate consumption (People's Daily)From June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010, a household appliance trade-in subsidy program will be implemented in nine pilot provinces, municipalities and cities comprising Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Guangdong, Fuzhou and Changsha. The subsidies will be jointly financed by the central government and local governments of pilot provinces, municipalities and cities. The central ...

Ericsson announces broadband contracts in China (AFP via Yahoo! News)Swedish mobile phone network supplier Ericsson won contracts to supply broadband Internet to millions of users in China by a deal with three operators there, it said Friday.

Residents don't want proposed plant (People's Daily)The developer of a planned chemical plant in Maoming, Guangdong province, has received strong protests from nearby residents who say the plant will cause pollution and health problems in their neighborhoods. The feedback came after the company publicized a notice on June 4 to seek public opinions to be included in an environmental impact assessment. Plans call for the Maoming paraxylene (PX) ...

Residents don't want proposed plant (China Daily)The developer of a planned chemical plant in Maoming, Guangdong province, has received strong protests from nearby residents who say the plant will cause pollution and health problems in their neighborhoods.

Billionaire is biggest foreign political donor (The West Australian)A little-known Australian-Chinese property billionaire has emerged as the biggest overseasbased donor to Australian political parties. Chau Chak Wing has given more than $2 million to the Liberal,

'Unsafe' products still on shelves in Guangdong (China Daily)GUANGZHOU: More than half of the beverages, tissues and women's sanitary products on sale in the markets of Guangdong province are "substandard", with a number of them even "dangerous to consumers' health", tests conducted by authorities on over 200 products showed.

Eastday-Financial hub to host own bull (Eastday.com)A statue of a bull similar to the Wall Street Bull will become a new landmark in Shanghai's financial hub of the Bund. The statue, designed as a Chinese ox, is being sculpted now and will be in place in the Bund by the Huangpu River before the end of the Chinese Year of the Ox next February.