In 1974, giant pandas Chia Chia and Ching Ching, gifts from China to British Prime Minister Edward Heath when he visited there in 1973, arrived in London.

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Many of my overseas friends have made it a point over the years to buy as many snuff bottles as they could find when traveling to China to give as gifts back home.

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In addition to the philanthropic and other, more personal, reasons that drive such monumental gifts as this one, the Schwarzman endowment highlights how important China is to leading financiers in the coming decades.

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She joined the lower house of the provincial legislature, and made so many charitable gifts that in 2010 she ranked No. 6 on the Forbes China list of philanthropists.

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China Mobile sells Lumia 920T for 4599 yuan, but with wireless charging pad or other gifts.

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Soles4Souls controller Tim Deats, a former shoe-industry manager, told Forbes his charity values gifts at estimated manufacturing cost, a low figure since most shoes are imported from China.

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Among the gifts from the Royal Family and UK PM David Cameron to US President Barack Obama in 2011 were a china tea set, an eagle tapestry and a dog toy, the US state department has revealed.

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