Chinese wild card Bai Yan , ranked 465th in the world, set up a meeting with Andy Murray after upsetting world number 30 Radek Stepanek 6-4 6-4.

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Ask your hotel concierge to write down addresses for taxi drivers, and remember to take a hotel card with the address in Chinese characters for the return trip.

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Meanwhile, the central bank and 11 Chinese commercial banks are setting up a National Bank Card Exchange Center to handle all plastic payments.

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Varanasi silk marries the Jacquard card technique of enabling subtle and varying designs with Chinese silk thread.

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The company, Vansky, also sold electronics and luxury accessories to platinum-card holders, giving Zhao valuable insights into how rich Chinese shopped online and how to set up secure payments.

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Despite the bullish market forecasts, global credit-card companies are feeling increasingly frustrated with their limited access to the Chinese market, where China UnionPay Ltd.

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For starters, Shangping has rock solid partnerships with three Chinese banks from which it has culled over 2.4 million customers from nearly 20 million combined platinum credit card holders.

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