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Baijiu, a liquor that can be up to 60 percent alcohol compared to vodka, which is about 40 percent , is ubiquitous on the Chinese table. You d see it during special occasions and at important business meals. But President Xi Jinping s corruption crackdown is presenting a challenge, reports CBS News correspondent Seth Doane. The government had a new policy against e
adidas samba xtravagance. And that affected the high-end Baijiu brands like mine and we did go down a lot, said Jim Rice, the American CEO of Sichuan Swellfun.Rice runs the oldest distillery in the world. His company is based in Chengdu, China, and every year around 8 million bottles of Baijiu roll off the production l
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A group of tiny parties refused to certify Indonesia s election results Monday, forcing another delay in the long-awaited final ta
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JERUSALEM - The Hamas militant group says seven of its members have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, and it is vowing revenge.In a statement, Hamas says six were killed in a single
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UNITED NATIONS The United Nations General Assembly voted Thursday, by an impressive margin, to upgrade Palestine from its status as an Observer Entity to an Observer State, a change greeted by celebration in the West Bank
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Port-au-Prince, Haitimdash; The State Department confirmed on Sunday that 16 Americans were among 17 people kidnapped in Haiti. A gang that was responsible f
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PACIFIC MISSILE RANGE FACILITY, Hawaii - A Japanese school girl s note in a bottle dropped into the ocean five years ago has been found washed up on Hawaii s shores.Petty Officer Jon Moore stumbled upon the clear glass bottle Thursday during a beach cleanup at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.Inside, he found a note from Saki Arikawa, four origami flowers, and a photo of Saki s sixth grade class in Kagoshima. I looked over and saw the bottle; I jokingly thought it would have a treasure map inside, but it actually had a message, Moore told CBS News affiliate KGMB-TV in Honolulu. When I started reading the letter, the Kanji looked familiar since I used to live in Japan, and the name of the student sounded like an average Japanese name to me. I was just glad the letter was in English at the bottom. The note was dated March 25, 2006. It read, I wrote this letter because we ll graduate elementary school so I wanted it to be a graduation memory. A picture found with a message in a bottle is seen in this scanned image released by the U.S. Navy.
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stanley romania that Saki graduated from the school five years ago and that her class tossed the bottle from a nearby bay marking the event. It s just amazing that the bottle was found. I m so delighted by the heartwarming news, Nakashima
