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- Advisor: Financial crisis not to affect success of 2010 Shanghai Expo [Xinhua] "The global financial crisis will have only limited impacts on the Shanghai World Expo 2010, an official with the organizers said here Sunday. Wan Jifei, vice director of the Shanghai World Expo Executive Committee, pledged that the financial crisis would not affect the overall success of the Expo at a press conference on the sidelines of the annual session of China's political advisory body."
- The curious case of the disappearing TV drama [Danwei] "Looking at the headline numbers, 2008 was not a good year for TV drama producers in China. While TV drama production has grown by around 1,000 episodes annually every year since 2003, it actually dropped for the first time in five years in 2008."
- China's key sci-tech projects criticized for "retarded progress" [Xinhua] "China's major projects in its 15-year scientific and technological development program initiated in 2006 is progressing very slowly, a political advisor said here Sunday. The State Council, or Cabinet, approved the last major scientific and technological project late last year, he said. "It means we have spent one fifth of the time to start up the program." "
- Coke to Invest $2 Billion in China [Global Atlanta] "As Coca-Cola Co. opened its new $90 million innovation and technology center in Shanghai, China, on March 6, the Atlanta-based beverage giant also said it would invest $2 billion more in the country over the next three years."
- Star advisor grumbles about China's food safety law [Xinhua] "China's celebrities grumbled about the newly-endorsed Food Safety Law during the ongoing parliament and political advisory sessions, saying it "unfair" to hold them liable, as the law stipulates, if the product they recommend in ads is found unsafe."
Today's Links: Disappearing dramas, "retarded progress" in sci-tech, but we're getting more coke!
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