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'Hero' top 'grossing 'movie in 'China after 'one month
Star director Zhang Yimou#8217;s martial arts epic I>Hero/Iabout China#8217;s legendary first emperor has become the highest grossing Chinese film after just a month in theatres, its distributor said yesterday.
Tokyo ignores claim of birth of cloned Japanese baby
B>TOKYO:/B>The Japanese government yesterday shrugged off an announcement by a controversial sect of the birth of a cloned baby in Japan where cloning is banned.
Mixed views on author's theory
HIS book, I>1421: The Year China Discovered America/I>, may be selling briskly in the United States, but his extraordinary theory that Chinese explorers reached the New World decades before Christopher Columbus is proving a tougher sell to academics #8211; even here in China.
Thieves plunder tombs of Loulan
THE tombs of Loulan, an ancient kingdom located along the famous Silk Road about 2,000 years ago, have been robbed, according to Wednesday's I>Guangming Daily/I>.
Ancient city torn apart
The city of Jenin in the West Bank can trace its history back to over 4,000 years of civilisation, but thanks to the latest Israel invasions starting last April, it is now a crippled town shorn of all basic amenities like proper sewage system, water pipes, electricity supply and roads.
West rapped for wanting to dominate the world
Malaysia took the stage as the new chairman of the Non-Aligned Movement Monday amid blazing colours and dances and against a backdrop of a looming war in the Middle East.
030303 a very special day for couples
One hundred and thirty-eight couples took their marital vows here yesterday -the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the third year in the millennium, a date that has a special significance for the Chinese.
War to start by April 8, say top Thai astrologers
B>BANGKOK: /B>After thumbing charts and calculating planetary positions, Thailand's top mystics have settled on April 8 as the last possible date for the launch of a US-led war on Iraq.
Site found to date back 40,000 years
A Paleolithic Age settlement at Bukit Bunuh in Lenggong, Perak, has been confirmed to date back 40,000 years and not between 20,000 and 30,000 years as previously estimated.
Musical show for Easter at stadium
As war and strange new diseases plague today's world, the meaning of Easter to commemorate God's love for mankind seems all the more important and urgent.
