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Check the official posters for SIFF over 10 years

The 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) will be held for ten days from June 11-20 this year, with the Golden Goblet Awards ceremony on June 19.The official

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Wine merchants positive about success in Chinese market amid COVID-19

01:59 Look, smell and taste, a bottle of wine has never been too far from our reach, even during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Months of restrictions may have pu

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Instacart speeds up grocery orders with ‘Priority Delivery’ option

Instacart is speeding up grocery delivery. The company announced today it’s debuting a faster delivery service, “Priority Delivery,” in select markets across the U.S. and Canada, wit

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Exploring delicacies of Shanghai's Chongming Island

06:06 Chongming Island, the third largest island in China, will hold the 10th China Flower Expo, the largest of its kind in the country, from May 21. In a place filled

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Napa Valley grape growers gear up for drought of 2021

02:39 California Governor Gavin Newsom recently declared a drought emergency for 41 of the state’s 58 counties.For farmers, that means they’ll be performing a delicate balancing act – c

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Ukraine becoming an 'anti-Russia' says Putin, pledging a response

Russian President Vladimir Putin was speaking at a video conference with members of the Security Council at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow. Sputnik/Sergey Ilyin/Kremlin via Reut

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First-ever wooden satellite, with selfie camera, to launch this year

01:03 A Finnish company is planning to launch the world's first wooden satellite into orbit to test the suitability of wood for use in extreme conditions.The WISA WOODSAT is a nanosatel

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TikTok gets Finnish kids started in the morning - study

TikTok 'may have been taken over as children's favorite morning entertainment.' /AP/Kiichiro Sato, File The social media video-sharing platform TikTok has significantly altered the morning rou

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Europe human rights body tells Greece to stop 'pushback' of migrants

Beside migrants and refugees, Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights addresses the media at the Vucjak refugee camp outside. /AP Photo/Darko Bandic The Council of

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Hawthorn trees boost earning potential of farmers in N China county

00:52 In Qinghe County, Xingtai City in north China's Hebei Province, 10,000 mu (about 667 hectares) of hawthorn trees are bringing residents significant earnings.Farme

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Making underdogs of Australian industry

A health worker carries out COVID-19 testing at the Joondalup drive-through clinic in Perth, Australia, May 3, 2021. /CFP Editor's note: Daryl Guppy is an international financial technical ana

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Wine that spent more than year in space orbiting Earth could fetch $1m

The wine, named Petrus 2000, was one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 and tastes "delicious", experts say.

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Private chef parties at home startup Yhangry raises $1.5M Seed from VC angels and Ollie Locke

There’s an “uber for everything” these days and now there are “Ubers for personal chefs”. Just take a look at PopTop or 100 Pleats for instance. Now in London, there is Yhangry (which brands itself as

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Wonders of Sanxingdui: Potteries

A new round of archaeological excavations has begun in the Sanxingdui Ruins, and various exquisite cultural relics are being unearthed from the ancient Shu civilization

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A lifelong dedication to enamel

A four-piece set of enameled steel ware, including basins and a chamber pot, used to cost three and a half months' salary of an ordinary worker in Shanghai, Xie Dangwei says, while pointing at a se

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China's anti-dumping ruling on Australian wine effective for 5 years

China's Ministry of Commerce said on Friday that the anti-dumping ruling on wine imports from Australia, starting March 28, will be effective for five years.

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Experts savour £4,000 bottle of wine that spent a year in space - and reveal what it tastes like

Experts said the wine tasted like rose petals, smelled like a campfire and glistened with a "burnt-orange hue".