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Spring Festival travel rush starts in China

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China's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush formally starts Sunday last week. Traffic management authorities will tighten patrol and inspection efforts to ensure road safety during period, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Preparations are being made to ensure safe and smooth traffic as millions of Chinese are heading home for the Spring Festival gathering, or the Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 23.

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Jiangsu money depositors nervous after fatal shooting

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The demand for police escorts to ensure safe cash deposits or withdrawals is on the rise following a deadly shooting and robbery in Nanjing last week.

During the traditional Chinese Spring Festival holiday an escort service, provided by local police department or professional private guard companies, is becoming popular in Jiangsu's provincial capital city Nanjing and other cities of China as police track the suspect, who is believed to be responsible for a number of similar shootings and robberies across the country during the holiday season.

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Christian Bale in China's Best Foreign Film Race Entry for Oscar

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As a priest, Christian Bale tries to save a group of women from the Rape of Nanking in a Chinese-made film "The Flowers of War".

"The Flowers of War" stars Bale as John Magee, an American priest in 1937 Nanking, which is under the imminent threat of a Japanese invasion. John Gillespie Magee witnessed Japanese war crimes at the time. He used a camera filming injuries of victims at the Nanjing University hospital, as well as in other parts of Nanking. This footage remains the most significant visual documentary record of this atrocities. He even sent a copy of the film to German Embassy in Nanjing at the time to reveal Japanese crimes.

The movie is shown for 20 minutes to buyers at the Toronto International Film Festival, and it has been submitted as China entry into the Foreign film race for this year's Oscars.

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Holiday season and traveling in China

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Christmas and new year day come soon. You may choose to stay in the city where you work or select traveling back to your country to reunite with family or friends during the holiday season.

In many Chinese cities, specifically in major cities or provincial capitals, commercial owners have already made the holiday everywhere, Signs and decorations. On avenues and streets, there are Christmas displays and people celebrate it with Christmas trees, cooking and eating special fooods, and spending time with family and friends.

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Downtime and data loss

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Dear Jiangsu.NET visitors,

Our previous webhost had one day of outtage on October 7, 2011 and as a result, we switched to a new host. The switch did not go as smooth as expected and we lost two weeks of forum data. We sincerely apologize for this issue. On the brighter side, we expect that our website to be much faster and with less downtime at our new host.

Cheers,

Administration, Jiangsu.NET

Last Updated on Tuesday, 11 October 2011 22:21
 


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