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Welcome to our March 2009 newsletter.
Clinton Urges China and USA to Work Together |
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At the end of her recent tour of China, while on
Chinese television, US Secretary of State, Hillary
Clinton, urged the two countries to work together to
solve the world's current economic difficulties.
Mrs Clinton said: "We are truly going to rise and
fall together. Our economies are so intertwined, the
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again to their biggest market, the United States has
to take some very drastic measures with this
stimulus package, which means we have to incur more
debt".
Various Chinese media reports said Mrs Clinton had
reassured premier Wen Jiabao and President Hu Jintao
that the Obama administration intends to restore the
health of US public accounts and safeguard the
interests of bondholders once the economy had begun
to recover.
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Let Us Plant a
Tree for You on 12 March |
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Every Spring, dust storms from China's northern deserts whistle
towards Beijing. Called the Yellow Dragon, it can cover houses, cars
and people, causing coughs and other ailments. As part of its drive
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Beijing officials started a huge campaign to grow a 2,800
mile defensive line of forestry, called the
Great Green Wall. Also part of the Green Olympics
initiative was the added importance given to China's
National Tree Planting Day on 12 March. Many visitors to
Beijing now comment on how visibly greener the nation's
capital has become.
ChinaOneCall's customers can also become 'greener' by
cutting down on unnecessary and expensive business trips,
using our telephone interpreters to conduct negotiations.
Calls are redirected at ChinaOneCall's expense from UK
local-rate or US toll free numbers. ChinaOneCall also
provides translations by email of correspondence, documents
catalogues and websites. So, if you are planning a visit to
China, think carefully, and weigh up the greener
ChinaOneCall option.
Please let us know if you cancelled a business trip and when
you used ChinaOneCall's services instead, and we promise to
plant a tree for you in China on 12 March!
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Zheng Jie: Generous to a Fault |
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Networking usually means, to business people anyway,
the chance to meet and talk to potentially useful
contacts. However to a particular young Chinese
woman, it means driving a ball hard enough to stop
her opponent hitting it back over the net. Zheng Jie
is a professional tennis player. She is currently
ranked world number 18, making her China and Asia's
highest-ranked women's singles player.
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At Wimbledon in 2008 Zheng became greatly admired
not just because she became the first Chinese player
ever to reach the semifinals of a Grand Slam
singles, but because she donated her winnings to the
victims of the 2008 earthquake in her native Sichuan
province.
ChinaOne Call wishes Zheng continued success in
2009.
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China's Trade with South American Increases |
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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan met the President
of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Luis
Alberto Moreno in Beijing on Wednesday 4 February ,
to discuss how to upgrade cooperation between China
and Latin American and Caribbean countries.
China is Latin America's second largest trading
partner after the United States. China's trade with
the region has reached 140 billion U.S. dollars in
2008, 40 percent up year-on-year. |
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"China and Latin American and Caribbean countries
are all developing countries that share the same
need for development and complementary economic
structure," Wang said at beginning of the meeting,
adding that strengthening cooperation is important
for the two sides to respond to the current global
financial crisis and promote regional economic
growth.
China joined the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
as a new member of the Washington-based lending
institution for Latin American and Caribbean
countries on 12 January 2009.
Newsflash: ChinaOneCall has just opened a new
agency in Brazil.
Agency and reseller enquiries from around the world
are welcome in both English speaking countries and
others whose citizens have a good command of
English.
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Red is Lucky in China...Make it Lucky Worldwide |
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In the UK on Friday 13 March its
Red Nose Day,
a day of fun and games to raise
money for worthwhile causes across the globe. So
ChinaOneCall is doing its bit.
We will donate £5 GBP for the charities organised by
Comic Relief for every new client signing up and
every top-up, during March 2009. |
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So spread the word
and bring luck to others. Just use
REDNOSE9
in the promotional code box on our website and
remember when you
sign up or top-up there is no expiry date.
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GUILIN, CHINA
A short way outside Guilin city centre, set back
from the Peach Blossom River beneath Bright
Mountain, Reed Flute Cave is the archetypal stuff of
local legend, with stalactite and stalagmite piled
one upon the other above limpid pools and lit in the
sharpest of primary colours. Once a refuge for the
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bombs and roaming bandits, more
recently a venue for political rallies in the heady
days of the Cultural Revolution, the cave is now
swarming with tourists during the day, and - on
occasion - filled with up to 500 conventioneers who
are brought here in the evening for formal black-tie
dinners amid such poetically named formations as the
Dragon Pagoda and the Crystal Palace. The cave's
transformation - from hosting Mao jackets to dinner
jackets - is perhaps one of the best snapshots of
the development of Guilin's cuisine over the past
few decades.
To read the full article on Guilin by Edward Peters
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world. To obtain your special subscription at a
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ChinaOneNews Team
ChinaOneCall
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