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Mainland architect collects top award

Wang Shu, whose buildings honour the past with salvaged materials even as they experiment with modern forms, receives the 2012 Pritzker prize, dubbed the Nobel for architecture. Wang, named the winner in February, is the first Chinese citizen to win the US$100,000 prize (the 1983 winner, I.M. Pei, was born in China but left for the United States in 1935). Major Wang projects cited by the jury include the Ningbo Contemporary Art Museum, completed in 2005, the Ningbo History Museum (2008) and the Vertical Courtyard Apartments (2007) in Hangzhou (left).

Ministers to give China-Eurasia Expo briefing

Vice-Commerce Minister Li Jinzao and the vice-chairman of the Xinjiang autonomous region, Shi Dagang, host a media briefing in Beijing on the China-Eurasia Expo to be held in Urumqi in September. The expo is an expansion of the Urumqi Fair and aims to promote trade between China, especially the western part, and Central Asia and Europe. It also aims to open up the border area and turn Xinjiang into a major gateway for trade with countries on China's remote western border.

Ada Wong addresses cultural conference

Ada Wong Ying-kay (left), chief executive of the Institute of Contemporary Culture, delivers a keynote speech at a youth cultural conference at Polytechnic University. She was tipped to be chief executive-elect Leung Chun-ying's culture minister. But reports since have said she was opposed by the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong, and that the job would go to Undersecretary for Home Affairs Florence Hui Hiu-fai. Wong has remained silent on the issue.

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