Earlier, Vollmer's dominance had been total as she finished nearly a second clear of China's Lu Ying with Alicia Coutts of Australia in third.

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"Fu Ying, diplomacy's 'iron lady', turns on the style", says China Daily of Fu Ying's first press briefing.

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"It is an industrywide structural problem, rather than a company-specific issue, " said Piper Jaffray's Mr. Ying.

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Poly Museum's curator Jiang Ying Chun is an archeologist by training.

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Meanwhile, mainland media have been impressed by Fu Ying's firm stance on Japan during her debut as NPC spokeswoman yesterday.

BBC: China media: NPC spokeswoman praised

In Britain for the G20 summit in early April, he was caught on camera squirming in embarrassment at being seated next to Fu Ying, China's sophisticated ambassador to Britain (and, before that, Australia).

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"This obviously is something we have been worrying about, " said Huang Ying, IBM China Research Lab associate director who leads one of the company's cloud computing projects in China.

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