Save the Date for NTD's 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala - "The Emperor's Banquet"
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 New Tang Dynasty Television will host its 10th Anniversary Benefit Gala - "The Emperor's Banquet," on Sunday, September 25 at Pier Sixty in New York City.
The banquet (www.TheEmperorsBanquet.com) is a celebration of a decade of championing press freedom and promoting traditional Chinese culture through NTD's global television broadcasts and websites. It will be preceded by NTD's International Chinese Culinary Competition in Times Square on Thursday and Friday, September 22 and 23. About 60 master chefs from around the world will cook in spectacular pagoda-roofed mobile kitchens before a live audience and TV crews in the heart of New York City. This will be the second year NTD's competition has transformed Times Square into the kitchen arena of Chang'an, the ancient Tang Dynasty capital of China.
The winners of the International Chinese Culinary Competition will then prepare the sumptuous 10-course feast at Pier Sixty. Guests at "The Emperor's Banquet" will experience a wide variety of flavors from China that represent the very best dishes from each of the five major Chinese cuisine styles.
For more information about NTD's 10th Anniversary Events click here.
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NTD Launches New Series "The World of Creativity"
 Creativity can help a business flourish. But by definition, creativity cannot be boxed in. It can be manifested in many aspects of a company's operations, from innovative product design, effective management structure, to exceptional customer service.
NTD's new series "The World of Creativity," takes a closer look at some really innovative businesses around the globe - finding out just where their inspiration came from and what drives them to succeed.
"The World of Creativity" is in presented in the Chinese language and subtitled in English. [Visit Website]
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NTD Announces New Partnership with Answers Media Inc.
New Tang Dynasty Television has partnered with Answers Media Inc. to bring Answers Media's food and health programs to new language platforms and distribution outlets around the world. The partnership will also see the production of all-new, original programming.
Based in Chicago, Answers Media Inc. is a convergence media company, integrating interactive software, design, video production, and media distribution networks.
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Answers Media Inc. website.
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NTD 24/7 Broadcast Now on SPB TV
NTD's 24/7 Chinese language broadcast is now available on SPB TV (spb.com). Now SPB TV's 6 million plus subscribers can access the programming of NTD Television.
SPB TV provides access to more than 150 live channels from more than 20 countries as well as Video-on-Demand services. Features like instant channel preview, picture-in-picture mode for quick browsing, and an integrated TV guide make SPB TV a good product for watching live TV on mobile devices. SPB TV is free to download and has no subscription fee.
Click here
to download the SPB TV application to your windows mobile device.
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Qixi Festival (Magpie Festival or Chinese Valentine's Day)
August 6th, 2011
 The Qixi Festival falls annually on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. On this day,
young Chinese women might demonstrate their domestic skills, like melon carving, and at the same time wish for a good husband and beauty. Newly married women might wish to quickly become pregnant.
The festival dates back to the Han Dynasty, (206 BCE - 220 CE), and is related to the love story of a weaver girl, the seventh daughter of a goddess, and a young cowherd.
According to legend, the weaver girl escaped from heaven because she was bored, and then fell in love with a young cowherd. They married and had two children. The weaver girl was a good wife and the cowherd was a good husband.
Later the goddess discovered her daughter had married a mortal. She was furious and made her daughter return to heaven.
Left behind on earth, her husband was distraught. Suddenly his ox spoke, saying that if he killed him and wore his hide he could go to heaven to search for his wife. Crying, he killed his ox and carried his two children to heaven. The goddess, again furious, took out her hairpin and made a wide river in the sky forever separating the two (forming the Milky Way between the stars Altair and Vega). The weaver girl sits sadly on one side of the river, weaving on her loom, and the cowherd sits on the other side, taking care of their two children.
Once a year, it is said all the world's magpies take pity on the couple and fly to the heavens to form a bridge linking them for just one night. This of course is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
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Defects in the design of the signal system have been blamed for the killer collision of two bullet trains last Saturday in Wenzhou, resulting in at least 39 deaths. That's the official explanation. According to Shanghai Railway Bureau director An Lusheng, the signal system at the Wenzhou South station failed to turn the green lights into red, leading to the crash.
An also pointed out that the operator on-duty of the railway station's telecommunication and signaling department failed to foresee that wrong signals might be given after a lightning strike that happened shortly before the eight cars derailed.
But that explanation has raised questions. Engineering experts say if it's true, it means the trains were not properly equipped.
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On July 26th, the city of Anshun in China's Guizhou Province broke out into riots, as thousands of residents took to the streets. The rampage began in response to accusations that the chengguan, a branch of civilian law enforcers, beat a disabled fruit vendor to death.[View Video]
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Chinese authorities have barred a 62-year-old Catholic priest and rights activist from entering China. It comes amid escalating clashes with the Vatican.
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Chinese military officials announced Wednesday that the decommissioned Varyag aircraft carrier - once a Soviet warship - will be used for research and training. Its purchase earlier this year led to rampant speculation about possible military uses.[View Video]
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Mengzi County, southwest China. Scene of the tensest monkey standoff in recent memory.
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