Mayor on a Mission
Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng paid a four-day visit to Taiwan from April 6 to 9. He was the first mayor of the mainland's four municipalities directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government to visit Taiwan
Writer, Blogger and Racer
Han Han, a young Chinese writer, has been nominated by Time magazine as a candidate for its annual list of 100 most influential people in the world
Search Engine Entrepreneur
Robin Li, 42, co-founder and CEO of Baidu Inc., is another Chinese candidate on Time magazine's 100 most influential people list. Li founded Baidu in 2000, after returning from the United States

"From Google to the renminbi, China is being blamed for all that ails the United States. Unfortunately, this reflects a potentially lethal combination of political scapegoating and bad economics."

Stephen Roach, a senior executive with New York-based investment bank Morgan Stanley, writing in the Financial Times

"I wonder what was on their minds when they described the battle against crime and graft as a publicity stunt."

Bo Xilai, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, dismissing accusations that the city's recent crime sweep that led to the arrest and conviction of thousands of gangsters was an orchestrated show to grab media attention 

"This is the down-payment Haiti needs for wholesale national renewal."

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, after donors pledged nearly $10 billion in aid to Haiti, more than double the amount requested by the country's president after January's earthquake

"It should give the tuna some breathing room ... And it's good news for sharks too."

Jay Nelson, Director of the Global Ocean Legacy with the Pew Environment Group, on the British Government's designation of the Chagos Islands as a marine reserve, which will be the world's largest

"I've got great respect for the [New York] Times, except it does have very clearly an agenda. You can see it in the way they choose their stories, what they put on page one--anything Obama wants. And the White House pays off by feeding them stories."

Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation Chairman, on the rivalry between The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal

 
PARTNERSHIP Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming (right) and his Costa Rican counterpart Marco Ruiz shake hands after signing a Free Trade Agreement in Beijing on April 8. The agreement was the first free-trade pact inked between China and a Central American country (HE JUNCHANG)
Educating Officials
Chinese President Hu Jintao vowed to further improve the capabilities of officials in guiding development in a scientific way
Work Safety
China launched a two-month campaign to inspect work safety nationwide on April 5. It would include self-examination by enterprises, government inspection and public supervision
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LIGHTING DOODLES
A light graffiti work GZ, I SUPPORT U is played in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, to indicate people's supports to the Guangzhou Asian Games on April 6 (LU HANXIN)
AN OLD GAME
A grandfather and his grandson crack boiled eggs as a tradition game for the Qingming Festival, a Chinese holiday to honor ancestors, in Heze city, east China's Shandong Province on April 5 (XINHUA)
ANCIENT TREASURES
An agate cup glided with gold is displayed at a relics exhibition at the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, on April 4. The relics at the show can be traced back to China's Tang Dynasty (618-907) (DING HAITAO)
BACK TO THE PAST
Dancers attend a performance held on water in Kaifeng City, central China's Henan Province on April 5. The performance showed the prosperity of Kaifeng during the Song Dynasty (960-1127) (WANG SONG)
 
TRADE BRIDGE A Nepalese resident walks along the China-Nepal Friendship Bridge in Zhangmu Town, Shigatse of Tibet. As an important trade port on the border, the town accounts for around 82 percent of bilateral trade between the two countries, which totaled $273 million in 2009 (XINHUA)
Guangdong-HK Cooperation
China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Guangdong Province reached a framework agreement on cooperation, in a bid to build the most vibrant and competitive city cluster in the Asian-Pacific region
Flying Across the Straits
China Eastern Airlines Co. Ltd. on April 6 signed a strategic cooperation agreement with China Airlines, a premier airline from Taiwan, to extensively cooperate on cargo flights, passenger flights, logistics, aircraft maintenance and marketing
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Searching for New Markets
Chinese manufacturers are increasingly turning their eyes to emerging markets that were spared the worst of the financial crisis
Uncertain Stock Direction
Investor sentiment turned sour on worries that liquidity could dry up as regulators reopened the door for initial public offerings
U.S. Business Benefits
More than 90 American companies had an optimistic business outlook on China, said the American Chamber of Commerce in China releasing the 2010 China Business Climate Survey on April 2
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  • NORTH KOREA
    Staff from China's Embassy to North Korea and a visiting Chinese women's volleyball team from Tianjin pay homage, at the China-Korea Friendship Tower in Pyongyang on April 5, to the Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers who died during the Korean War in the 1950s (GAO HAORONG)
  • KYRGYZSTAN
    Charred vehicles can be seen outside the presidential compound in Bishkek on April 8 following clashes between protesters and security forces. Opposition members had occupied the building in a bid to take over the government (XINHUA)
  • BRITAIN
    British opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron announces the launch of his party's official election campaign in London on April 6. Britain will vote in a general election on May 6 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • INDONESIA
    Residents leave their homes after a recent powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Banda Aceh. The quake hit Sumatra on April 7, triggering a tsunami alert in nearby Thailand (XINHUA/AFP)
  • BRAZIL
    Firefighters carry children through flood waters in Campo Grande, 70 km south of Rio de Janeiro, on April 6. Flooding from torrential rains and deadly mudslides claimed at least 82 lives in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro state (XINHUA/AFP)
  • CZECH REPUBLIC
    Tourists look at decorated Easter eggs on sale at a traditional market in the Old Town Square in Prague on April 5, Easter Monday (XINHUA/AFP)
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