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Happy Chinese New Year! Please download the free App "Happy Chinese New Year" at the Apple Store. (PRNewsFoto/CAV Television Production Co., Ltd) 22 Jan 2012 15:00 Africa/Lagos "Happy Chinese New Year" for The Whole World BEIJING, Jan. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Tomorrow (23 January, 2012) is the first day of the lunar new year in China. When you see your Chinese friends, please remember to wish them a "Happy Chinese New Year". "Happy Chinese New Year" is a fun, free, interactive application for the iPad that has been available at the Apple Store online since 29 December, 2011. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120122/CN25428 ) This App has five components: "Happy Chinese New Year", "Chinese Shows in the World", "Greeting", "Cultures" and "Link". With multimedia texts, images, video, animation, sound files, and other media, the application introduces Overseas "Happy Chinese New ...

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release - April 11, 2008 Authored by CIPFG Contact: Clive Ansley Chair, Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong China Country Monitor for Lawyers' Rights Watch in Canada 250-334-3586; 250-792-3547 CIPFG IS CALLING ON THE CANADIAN OLYMPIC COMMITTEE TO URGE ATHLETES TO WEAR YELLOW RIBBONS AT THE OPENING AND CLOSING CEREMONIES IN BEIJING in support of Falun Gong practitioners persecuted in China and other oppressed groups VANCOUVER ISLAND - In light of the recent escalation of the persecution of Falun Gong, including mass arrests amounting to almost 2000 practitioners since January 1, CIPFG has serious concerns about China's on-going oppression of Tibetans and Christians as well as other oppressed groups. "We believe that those human rights abuses are in direct conflict with the Olympic charter and this urgently needs to be addressed before August 2008," said Clive Ansley, chair of CIPFG. "It is becoming clearer that Beijin...

23 Nov 2007 12:00 Africa/Lagos China Leads the US in Digital Self-Expression IAC and JWT study reveals new means of expression for China's Tech-Savvy Youth NEW YORK, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Millions of young Chinese are embracing the Internet as a discreet space for their thoughts and emotions, according to a survey of Chinese and American youth released today by IAC, which operates businesses in sectors being transformed by the Internet, and JWT, the fourth largest advertising agency network in the world. The findings show how readily young Chinese are taking to the Internet and its possibilities-for example, almost five times as many Chinese as American respondents said they have a parallel life online (61 percent vs. 13 percent). And while fewer than half of the 1,079 American respondents agreed that "I live some of my life online" (42 percent), a sizable majority of the 1,104 Chinese respondents agreed with the statement (86 percent). The two random online s...