Qigong

China's prestigious Shanghai Qigong Research Institute has partnered with the EastWest MEcenter in Greece to build a "Taiji Health Base" in Athens, it announced on Thursday.

June 21, or Summer Solstice, is the longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere and marks the start of the summer in Greece.

Across the country the day will average 14 hours and 48 minutes.

In Athens the sun will rise at 6.02 a.m. and set just after 8.50 p.m.

BELGRADE - The Serbian-Chinese Culture Week will be held in Belgrade from April 13 to 19.

The opening day will be marked by two art exhibitions - photographs of the Spring Festival in China, and drawings by Tomislav Petrovic representing professions and crafts in China and Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said Thursday that Serbia deported the Falun Gong activists who tried to stage a protest during the visit by Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang and the summit in Belgrade.

Falun Gong activists deported

BELGRADE -- Serbia's interior minister says the Falun Gong activists who attempted to hold a protest during the visit of China's prime minister have been deported.

Dejan Markovic, an activist of Falun Gong, told Radio Free Europe that 11 members of the movement were expelled from Serbia on Wednesday after police arrested them on December 14.

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The seven Bulgarians, followers of the Buddhist movement Falun Gong, that were detained in Belgrade on Tuesday, have been released on Wednesday evening and are expected to return to Bulgaria.

The seven Bulgarians who were arrested in Belgrade on Monday evening over their alleged plans to protest against the human rights violations in China, would return on Thursday, the spokesperson of Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry Betina Zhoteva told the BNT public broadcaster.

Seven Bulgarian citizens were arrested on Monday evening in Belgrade, said Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry, quoted by the BNT public broadcaster.

They are followers of the Chinese Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) spiritual movement and were intending to protest against the violations of human rights in China.