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Odim Snags Order for 2 Deepwater Cranes from China's Zhejiang Shipyard (Rigzone)An order worth about NOK 95 million for two advanced deepwater cranes was awarded to ODIM by China's Zhejiang Shipyard, a subsidiary of Sinopacific Shipbuilding Group.

Real Life Autobots Found in Chinese Scrap Yard [Robots] (Gizmodo)It's got to be tough distinguishing your scrap yard (a big lot filled with junk) from a competitor's scrap yard (another big lot filled with junk). But one Chinese entrepreneur from the Zhejiang...

Chancellor's report from China (Daily Nebraskan)It is now Thursday morning in China. We spent yesterday visiting Zhejiang University City College. We have a partnership degree program where their students can take two years at ZUCC and then transfer to UNL. We arrived on the campus about 10:00 a.m. and were given a tour of their engineering laboratories.

Four killed in east China truck accident (People's Daily)Four people died and another two were injured when an overloaded truck plunged into a valley in east China's Zhejiang Province on Thursday morning, local authorities said. The accident occurred at around 8:40 a.m. when the truck loaded with flagstone board went down a slope, hit a bridge railing and plunged into an eight-meter-deep valley, a Leqing municipal traffic police department official ...

Powerhouse hopes to stand firm in financial storm (Mail and Guardian)The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. China looks likely to emerge stronger in the weakened financial system after weathering its own crises of unrest in Tibet and the Sichuan earthquake this year.

People trafficking: 'It is down your street and in your lane' (Guardian Unlimited)Girls from Fujian are being trafficked and silently recruited into brothels across the UK

READ: Behold, the Dragon tombs (The New Straits Times)At times too, Yap, with the hindsight of history, seems to go out of his way to look for signs that explain why, for instance, a dynasty fell. Is that like knowing beforehand what happens at the end of a story and then trying to justify the circumstances leading to that conclusion? You tell me.

China hopes to stand firm in storm (Guardian Unlimited)Experts predict that relative isolation of China's financial system and high savings rate will keep it secure

STAFF EDITORIAL: International relations bolster UNL (Daily Nebraskan)This week, University of Nebraska-Lincoln officials are traveling to China to visit Xi'an Jiaotong and Zhejiang universities to make stronger global connections. Chancellor Harvey Perlman; Barbara Couture, senior vice chancellor for academic affairs; and Perm Paul, vice chancellor for research and economic development, will be spending two weeks in the country, discussing research ...

Shanghai eases regulations on residency permits (China Economic Net)Shanghai has amended a key rule and the approval process for its residence certificate, or hukou, which will come as a great relief to many people from all over China who call Shanghai home.