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Marvelous “Moments of Guangzhou Asian Games” Light up Haixinsha Park
The “Moments of the Guangzhou Asian Games,” a show to represent the condensing opening of the games began from April 29. On average 80 percent of the seats have been sold each night despite the recent rainy weather. Fireworks in the rain add to the mystery of the show. The show lasts about...
King of Diamond Shown in Guangzhou’s Huadu Mall
King of Diamond Shown in Guangzhou's Huadu Mall Have you seen a South African naked diamond weighing 14 carats? A deluxe diamond named “Star of Forever” was shown Tuesday (May 3) at the Huadu Mopark Department Store in Guangzhou. The diamond’s value is estimated at about 18.8 million...
Classic Cars Parade Guangzhou
On May 1, the day of the International Labor Day, 15 deluxe classic cars debuted at the Haixinsha Square Park, the site of the Guangzhou Asian Games opening ceremony, attracting thousands of people in the park and along the parade route. The parade team departed the park at around 10:00 p.m., travelled...
Vancouver Airport Authority Welcomes Canada’s First Flight to Guangzhou
The Vancouver Airport Authority on Thursday acclaimed China Southern Airline’s upcoming inauguration of a nonstop flight out of Vancouver to China’s third largest city Guangzhou, the first and only flight of its kind in Canada. Beginning on June 15, the Chinese airline will open its service...
Guangdong Hospital, National Level Excellence
China’s Ministry of Health recently released class rankings for 15 divisions of the nation’s medicinal clinics. The Guangzhou based First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University (中山大学第一附属医院) received scores including six of its departments in the top 10 among their...
Vancouver Airport Authority Welcomes Canada’s First Flight to Guangzhou
The Vancouver Airport Authority on Thursday acclaimed China Southern Airline’s upcoming inauguration of a nonstop flight out of Vancouver to China’s third largest city Guangzhou, the first and only flight of its kind in Canada. Beginning on June 15, the Chinese airline will open its service...
Tee Mall Catches Fire
The east tower of Tee Mall (天河城) caught fire at around 10:08 a.m. yesterday (April 27).The thousands of building staff left. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the accident. The news was soon released on weibo, a twitter-like Chinese microblog, in some minutes. The fire was was cited to have been...
Toxic Food Scandal! Shuanghui Meats Withdrawn from Guangzhou Supermarkets
On National Consumers Day (March 15th), a special program broadcast by CCTV revealed that a meat producer owned by Shuanghui Group, the largest producer of frozen processed meat in China, had used an illegal drug called ractopamine when rearing pigs destined for human consumption. Ractopamine was previously...
A Second “City Flower”?
What happens when the flower that symbolizes your city only blossoms for a few weeks every year? Some people in Guangzhou have been preoccupied by this question especially since the Asian Games during which communication campaigns bombarded us with flowery references and launched the idea that China’s...