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Each year on the Chinese calendar is marked by a different animal. As I recall, we have had the year of the Dragon, the year of the Tiger, etc. I don't pay much attention to tell you the truth.
I did know that this coming year was to be the Year of the Pig. I thought that was kind of funny.
Well alas, it is not to be the Year of the Pig after all:
SHANGHAI -- Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said.
This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestle's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday.
The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean. "China is a multiethnic country," the network's ad department said in a notice sent to ad agencies late Tuesday.
Oh, d-d-d-d-dear, why do they hate us so?
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China Officially Bans Year Of The Pig
Each year on the Chinese calendar is marked by a different animal. As I recall, we have had the year of the Dragon, the year of the Tiger, etc. I don't pay much attention to tell you the truth.
I did know that this coming year was to be the Year of the Pig. I thought that was kind of funny.
Well alas, it is not to be the Year of the Pig after all:
SHANGHAI -- Next month, China will ring in the Year of the Pig. Nestlé SA planned to celebrate with TV ads featuring a smiling cartoon pig. "Happy new pig year," the ads said.
This week, China Central Television, the national state-run TV network, banned Nestle's ad -- and all images and spoken references to the animal in commercials, including those tied to the Lunar New Year, China's biggest holiday.
The intent: to avoid offending Muslims, who consider pigs unclean. "China is a multiethnic country," the network's ad department said in a notice sent to ad agencies late Tuesday.
Oh, d-d-d-d-dear, why do they hate us so?
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- China Has Divested 97 Percent Of Its Holdings In U.s. Treasury Bills
From CNS: China has dropped 97 percent of its holdings in U.S. Treasury bills, decreasing its ownership of the short-term U.S. government securities from a peak of $210.4 billion in May 2009 to $5.69 billion in March 2011, the most recent month...
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IS CHINA A PAPER TIGER?China's state broadcaster is facing questions after internet users spotted that footage in a report on air force manoeuvres in a national newscast was taken from the 1980s Hollywood film Top Gun. When you can't figure out...
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