http://www.dwhigh.com.cn Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:06:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en China's central bank has set a lower target for loan growth rate of 12 percent for 2008 in efforts to curb lending growth and cool the economy, state media reported Thursday. Lending growth would be strictly controlled and branches required to report new loans monthly, the Shanghai Securities News reported, ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=117 To stay with his maternal grandmother or his biological father may involve a lot of soul-searching for 9-year-old Sean Goldman. So the custody battle over the American-born Brazilian boy continues, and once again made headlines on Thursday when Brazil's Supreme Federal Court delayed Sean's return to his U.S. father the ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=116 Over the past week, Facebook has been nudging its users — first gently, then firmly — to review and update their privacy settings. You may have procrastinated by hitting "skip for now," but Facebook eventually took away that button and forced you to update your settings before continuing to use the ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=115 STOCKS in Shanghai tumbled today, with the key index headed for the longest losing streak in nearly eight weeks after the government imposed curbs on food prices and ordered banks to set aside larger reserves to curtail inflation. The Shanghai Composite Index, which tracks yuan-denominated A shares and hard-currency B shares, ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=114 As one of the most important qualifier for the Beijing Olympic Games, most people thought the lineup of the "Good Luck Beijing" FINA Diving World Cup was exactly the lineup of the Olympic Games. However, it was not. "The lineup of the World Cup does not equal to that in ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=113 Chinese shares slumped 3 percent on Monday after securities regulators failed investors' expectation that they might introduce stimulus measures. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index shed 107.43 points from the previous close to 3,472.71. The Shenzhen Component Index fell 390.71 points, or 2.85 percent to 13,302.14. The major stock index rebounded ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=112 Four-year-old Alex Hua Tian took up horse riding in Beijing's suburbs and 14 years later became a history maker in the equestrian world. He was the first Chinese rider registered by the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) and the first Chinese rider to compete in three-day eventing at an international equestrian event, ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=111 The reason scientists can't find rocks more than 4 billion years old is they may not have been able to handle the weather -- stinging acid rains -- and an intensely warm surface. The fate of all those rocks from the first 500 million years after Earth formed has been ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=110 The Main Press Center (MPC) near the centerpiece Beijing Olympic venues is undoubtedly a refuge from the midsummer heat wave, with its cool air out flowing from the main entrance and felt from several paces away. But coolness slowly escalates into bitter cold when one stays in the building for ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=109 "Finally, he got it, for which he has waited for 12 years," said excited Sasithorn Jongjohor, wife of Thai Olympics gold winner Somjit Jongjohor, after her husband beat Cuba's Andris Laffita Hernandez in Beijing late Saturday. In the last match of Somjit, the 33-year-old boxing star showed a class of his ... http://www.dwhigh.com.cn/?p=108