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ZHENGZHOU www.spensus.com , May 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese media should be innovators in news coverage and dissemination, the publicity chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC) said Thursday.


""The CPC stresses integrated media development and fostering a new type of mainstream media. The CPC underscores media innovation to make their products more accessible,"" Liu Qibao, head of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, said when addressing a seminar attended by Chinese and Vietnamese Communist Party members to discuss Party leadership in publicity.


Liu said the CPC has always considered news reporting and publicity work as an important part of state governance and stability. He said since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, the CPC Central Committee has improved the Party's leadership in publicity to inspire the whole nation to work for a better future.


""The CPC will continue to lead the media so that it guides public opinion toward a right direction, and the CPC counts on mainstream media to unite and inspire the people to form cohesion,"" Liu said.


Vietnamese media organizations are also working to transform themselves to meet the reality of new media, said Vo Van Thuong, Liu's counterpart in Vietnam.


Liu and Thuong held talks Wednesday on consolidating the relationship between the two parties and countries and had exchanges on deepening cooperation between publicity departments and media outlets.

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A REPLICA of a sphinx in north China that angered Egyptian authorities so much they complained about it to the United Nations is to be torn down, its builders said yesterday.


The replica proved a popular attraction at the Hebei Cultural Renovation Park on the outskirts of Shijiazhuang, capital of north China’s Hebei Province.


A series of photographs posted on the Internet went viral and alerted the Egyptian government department responsible for antiquities.


Department head Ali Al-Asfar said: “We have complained to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Our foreign affairs bureau will contact China. We will discuss about how to resolve it — either Egypt asks for compensation or China pulls down the replica.”


“Whatever your aim is, you have infringed our right,” the Egyptian official added. “The replica has big differences with the original one, which will also mislead visitors.”


He said that whoever built the replica should have informed the antiquities department in advance because the venture could have a detrimental effect on Egyptian tourism.


However, a Hebei park manager said that the replica, made from steel bars and cement, had been built as a temporary prop for filming. “Once the shooting is finished, it will be pulled down,” he said.


He added that it had not been used to make money and was sorry that Egyptian officials had misinterpreted their intentions.


“We are very respectful to world cultural heritage and express our apologies for any misunderstanding,” the manager said.


The sphinx is a mythical creature with the body of a lion and a human head. The Great Sphinx of Giza is the largest and most famous example, at 74 meters long and 20 meters tall. Believed to have been built some 4,500 years ago it is situated at the Giza Plateau adjacent to the Great Pyramids of Giza on the west bank of the Nile.


There has been no response from UNESCO.

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CAIRO, March 25 (Xinhua) -- An Egyptian court on Tuesday began a mass trial of 683 Muslim Brotherhood defendants, including the group's top leader Mohamed Badie, on charges including murder, official news agency MENA reported.


The trial comes a day after the same court in the Upper Egyptian Minya province sentenced 529 supporters of the Islamist group to death for assaulting police stations and killing an officer.


Roughly 1,200 defendants in Minya are accused of attempted murder of several policemen, attacking police premises in Mattai district, after the dispersal of a major sit-in staged by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi in Cairo last August.


The Islamist suspects were also accused of breaking into governmental institutions, shooting randomly on security men, stealing police weapons, and burning police stations, along with terrorizing local residents and disturbing public peace.


Though Monday's death sentences will be appealed at the Court of Cassation, the verdict drew condemnation of rights groups, the United States and the European Union, deeming the rulings the "" fastest"" ones as they were issued in just two days with the largest number sentenced to death.


Security forces intensified its presence outside the court, rejected the opening of any adjacent stores and halted traffic in the surrounding streets as precautionary measures, MENA added.

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MADRID， Oct. 17 (Xinhua) -- FC Barcelona midfielder Ivan Rakitic will be a key player when FC Barcelona entertain Manchester City in the Camp Nou Stadium on Wednesday night in what promises to be the most interesting game of this week's round of Champions League matches.


The game sees the return of former Barca coach Pep Guardiola to the Camp Nou and speaking in an interview with 'the Times'， Rakitic said Guardiola was one of the reasons he had opted to join Barca from Sevilla， adding that he had asked to wear the number 4 shirt Guardiola had worn.


"I wasn't at Barca when he was the coach， but when I came I asked for the number 4 because it was his number. It was really special for me，" explained Rakitic.


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