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The Golden Era, a biographical movie of Xiao Hong, one of China's most famous essayists and novelists, won the Best Film Award of the 34th Hong Kong Film Awards Sunday evening.
Sean Lau from Hong Kong and Vicki Zhao from the Chinese mainland won the Best Actor and the Best Actress awards respectively by staring the latest Hong Kong action movie series Overheard 3, and Dearest, a film about kidnapping in China.
The Golden Era was the biggest winner at the awarding ceremony. With nominations for up to ten titles, the film also won the Best Cinematography Award, Best Art Direction, Best Costume and Makeup Design, with its Hong Kong director Ann Hui winning the Best Director title.
It was the first time Vicki Zhao had won a Hong Kong Film Awards title, though she has been nominated twice before.
Coming Home, which tells a love story through China's Cultural Revolution directed by Zhang Yimou, won the Best Film Award from Mainland and Taiwan.
Founded in 1982, the Hong Kong Film Awards have been the most prestigious movie awards in the region and one of the most recognized in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan.
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North China's Shanxi Province has begun a training program for Afghan hospital administrators and medics.
It will train 64 Afghans within the next two years, and 19 of them are already training in the province.
The provincial health department said the length of their training ranges from two weeks to one year. Hospitals involved in the program are all rated first class under China's national categorization system, and all the trainers will teach in English.
Shanxi has undertaken international medical training organized by the Chinese Ministry of Commerce since 1998 and has trained 1,300 medical staff from more than 200 countries over the past 17 years.
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The new pair of giant pandas given by China's central government as gifts to the Macao Special Administrative Region is scheduled to arrive in Macao this week.
Experts from the mainland were happy with the preparations made by staff members with the Macao giant panda pavilion after they visited the living and medical facilities of the pandas during an inspection tour in the city.
The two giant pandas were chosen from more than 50 candidates following a three-month selection process. The pandas, a male and a female, both weigh 110 kilograms.
They were named Kaikai and Xinxin, after their predecessors who died in June last year. Those pandas came to Macao as gifts for the celebration of the 10th anniversary of Macao's return to China. The luxury pavilion houses feeding and medical facilities and costs some 90 million patacas, roughly 11-and-a half million U.S. dollars.
