The docking itself was completed by taikonaut Liu Wang, about an hour and a half after Shenzhou-9 undocked from Tiangong-1.

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"After news that Cyprus is selling its gold, there's speculation that other debt-ridden countries might sell theirs, " said Joyce Liu, an investment analyst at Phillip Futures in Singapore.

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Re-TROS bass player Liu Min says that one benefit to releasing an album in the United States is to show Americans a side of China they might not have heard before.

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He's more concerned that nobody on his team has ever played in the glare of an NCAA tournament game, while LIU Brooklyn (20-13) won the Northeastern Conference tournament title for the third year in a row to extend its string of NCAA trips.

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But as was the case in console-based gaming, the Chinese government has intervened, says Ning Liu, an analyst at BDA. Licensing of new versions of foreign games has been delayed, and local firms have gradually learnt to develop their own products.

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