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 NTD China News launched this week on Monday, May 30, 2011. The English-language news program provides breaking news and analysis from Mainland China - a perspective that's independent of China's state-run media.
"NTD China News aims give our viewers in the West broad insight into what's happening in a complex and rapidly changing China," said Matt Gnaizda, VP of Multilanguage Programming. "It's the kind of in-depth China news and analysis you can't find on other TV network."
NTD China News broadcasts Monday-Friday at 1:30pm NY time on NTD Television.
To Watch NTD China News
[click here].
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Shen Yun Performing Arts Returns to Lincoln Center in June
 New York-based Chinese classical dance company Shen Yun Performing Arts is returning to New York's Lincoln Center for five shows in June. From Thursday, June 23, to Sunday, June 26, Shen Yun will present a special "Best of Shen Yun" program featuring principal dancers from all three of Shen Yun's touring companies.
This unprecedented collection of talent is sure to make for a magical evening.
NTD Television is a proud media partner of Shen Yun Performing Arts' shows in New York City.
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Dragon Boat Festival - June 6, 2011
 On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, Chinese communities around the world celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Festival (端午节).
The origin of the Duanwu Festival is often linked to the suicide of a poet and statesman from the Chu kingdom- Qu Yuan in 278 BCE. He was banished from the kingdom of Chu for opposing an alliance with the increasingly powerful state of Qin. Eventually the Qin state conquered Chu. Upon hearing the news of his country's demise, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
The customs of eating zongzi (rice dumplings) and dragon boating racing during the festival are said to have come from the local people's reaction to Qu Yuan's death. It is said some threw rice into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat his body. Others were said to have paddled boats onto the river to scare away the fish, or to retrieve his body.
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Chunghwa Telecom Rejection Threatens Survival of Independent Broadcaster NTD-AP
Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) of Taiwan recently rejected a renewal of its broadcasting contract with NTD Asia-Pacific (NTD-AP).
NTD-AP has been leasing a C-band channel on CHT's satellite ST-1 since 2007. This satellite also covers a large area in Mainland China. CHT told NTD-AP that it will have fewer C-band transponders on its new ST-2
Satellite, which starting in August will replace the retiring ST-1. The company said this new satellite would thus have insufficient bandwidth to include NTD-AP.
CHT's explanation contradicts its official announcement that the new ST-2 will outperform the ST-1, and that the objective of deploying ST-2 is to provide existing customers with uninterrupted service and expand to new customers and markets.
NTD-AP fears that CHT's decision is instead politically motivated, similar to the Eutelstat issue, and that the Chinese Communist Party in Mainland China has offered financial incentives and put pressure on CHT to restrict NTD's uncensored broadcasts to the Mainland.
In May, CHT signed two major business contracts with China.
CHT is controlled by Taiwan's government. Several US Congressmen, European Parliament members and Reporters Without Borders staff have written letters to top Taiwanese officials raising their concerns that CHT's decision may reflect higher state policy, and hope the Taiwanese government will intercede to correct CHT's decision.
Taiwan Premier Mr. Wu Den-yih asked CHT at a meeting last week to continue providing C-band service to NTD-AP, while CHT maintained that there is no bandwidth on the ST-2. NTD-AP asks Taiwan's government to conduct an official investigation into CHT's claims.
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NTD Now Available on Two Large French TV Providers
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Starting from May 2011, NTD Television is available on two French TV providers: Free SAS and SFR SAS.
On Free SAS, NTD is available on Channel 685- a basic channel available free to 4 million subscribers.
On SFR SAS, NTD is available on Channel 728- a basic channel available to all 3 million SFR TV subscribers.
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"The sequel to the hit animated film "Kung Fu Panda" hit theaters this past weekend. And while audiences in West were marveling at the panda on screen, production designer for the film Raymond Zibach headed east to admire the real thing.
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The Chinese regime has imposed what residents are calling "martial law" on Inner Mongolia. Security forces sealed off several parts of the region and its capital Hohhot on Sunday to prevent a mass protest that was planned for today. Residents are telling the Associated Press that Internet access has been disabled, as well.
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Across southern China, the ground is literally cracking under the worst drought in decades.
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Flooding in a Chinese coalmine has trapped 12 miners in southwest Guizhou Province, according to state media reports. It's the latest accident in the country's notoriously dangerous mining industry.
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China's top court issued a notice on Friday calling for the death penalty for food safety crimes that lead to fatalities.
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