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Interestingly, early notes before the ceremony were inspired by the hotel I had checked into. It offered a local toothpaste enriched with herbal ingredients. Yes, local!

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【Yunited Asia: Local's Saves of CSAE】

The 10th China-South Asia Exposition (CSAE) kicked off on June 11, 2026.

At the just concluded opening ceremony, I jotted down some notes.

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A team of researchers from the Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping at Wuhan University has returned from China's 42nd Antarctic expedition with high-resolution data documenting rapid ecological shifts and a sharp increase in human activity on the polar continent.

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For the first time in a decade, New Zealanders are more likely to see China as a friend than the US, while viewing Washington as more of a threat, according to the latest report released by a New Zealand foundation on Wednesday.

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Students celebrate after the national college entrance exam in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, June 9, 2026.

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Students celebrate after the national college entrance exam in Lanzhou, Northwest China's Gansu province, June 9, 2026. China's national college entrance exam, also known as the gaokao, began on June 7 this year. The exam in some regions has ended on Tuesday.

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The giant panda Hua Ni (also known as Ai Bao) at Everland Resort, the largest theme park in South Korea, gave birth to a female cub weighing over 170 grams on June 3.

She is the fourth cub born to Ai Bao under the joint efforts of Chinese and South Korean experts.

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Looking for a summer getaway that combines history, nature, and serenity? Xinzhou city in North China's Shanxi province offers exactly that. Just a three-hour high-speed rail journey from Beijing, the city offers a cool respite from the summer heat.

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President Xi Jinping will kick off a state visit to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on Monday, his first trip to the neighboring country in seven years and his first overseas visit this year.

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Chinese researchers have made significant breakthroughs in the reintroduction of captive-bred giant pandas to the wild in recent years, bolstering broader efforts to conserve the endangered species, authorities said.

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Chinese researchers have made significant breakthroughs in the reintroduction of captive-bred giant pandas to the wild in recent years, bolstering broader efforts to conserve the endangered species, authorities said.

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China has become one of the few countries to buck the global trend of coastal deforestation, achieving a 44 percent increase in mangrove forest area since 2000.

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The Datong-Huailai-Tianjin South 1,000-kV ultra-high voltage (UHV) project - China's new west-to-east power transmission line and a major initiative under the country's 14th Five-Year Plan for power development - has completed a critical construction milestone. .

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The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government and the Government of Uzbekistan have agreed to discuss the implementation details of a mutual visa-free arrangement, which would allow visitors from both sides to stay visa-free for up to 30 days.

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The #Sichuan section of the Giant #Panda National Park is home to 1,227wild giant pandas. Newly installed infrared cameras, known as the park's"forest photographers," captured 1,909 sightings of these iconic animals. #biodiversity

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General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and Lao President Thongloun Sisoulith arrives in Beijing, capital of China, June 4, 2026. Thongloun is in China for a five-day state visit.

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Despite the fact that most viewers outside southern China do not understand the dialect being spoken, audiences across the country have embraced the story, suggesting that emotional resonance can extend far beyond linguistic boundaries.

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A Chaoshan (Teochew)-dialect film has become one of China's biggest cinematic surprises of the year. Dear You, with more than 95 percent of its dialogue in the Chaoshan dialect, has climbed to become the second-highest-grossing film of the year, trailing only Pegasus 3.

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The study also found that these carnelian beads are the southernmost such artifacts discovered in China from that period, the Sichuan provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute confirmed on Wednesday.

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Chinese archaeologists have traced the origins of 11 carnelian beads unearthed from sacrificial pits at the Sanxingdui Ruins.

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This reveals that more than 3,000 years ago, the ancient Shu civilization in Southwest China had already established stable and lasting exchange networks with the distant northern grasslands and the Loess Plateau.