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Friday, June 1, 2007. The ancient lotus garden in Baoding. Baoding is a prefecture-level city located in the east of Hebei district on flat plains, to the east of the Taihang Mountains, around 140 kilometers south of Beijing, and nearly halfway between Beijing and the capital of the district Shijiazhuang. The city contains notable historic sites.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007. Welcome at Chengde in Hebei. The wonderful Dafuosi temple at Chengde. Chengde is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated northeast of Beijing. The city is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden formerly used by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. Today the city is a popular tourist destination. The elaborate Mountain Resort features large parks with lakes, pagodas, and palaces ringed by a wall. Another popular attraction of the Chengde .
Angelina Jolie receive Freedom Award United Nations Refugee Agency. The International Rescue Committee has given last week its annual Freedom Award to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and its Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie in recognition of their contributions to the cause. Although unable to attend the event, Ms. Jolie in a video message hailed the close partnership between UNHCR and the International Rescue Committee.
Herensteeg en Eilanden en het klimaat. Small island countries seek action on climate change at UN conference. Small island States called on industrialized countries to take a leadership role at the Bali Climate Change Conference and adopt targets to keep the world from warming past the point where catastrophic impacts would occur, according to a UN statement on Sunday. The conference ended its first week with negotiations in full swing on key issues. According to Yvo de Boer, .
Morocco and Polisario on Western Sahara. UN is leading new round of talks on Western Sahara. Starting Sunday, the United Nations will lead a fourth round of talks on Western Sahara, bringing together representatives from Morocco and the Frente Polisario on the outskirts of New York City, a UN spokesperson said last week in New York. The Kingdom of Morocco and the Polisario Front independence movement dispute control of the territory. van Walsum visited the region .