by Marzia De Giuli
MILAN coach business bags outlet clearance , Italy, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- A total of 32 companies, institutions and personalities were awarded in Italy's Milan on Thursday at the annual China Awards dinner aimed at enhancing cultural understanding and business exchanges between the two countries.
Among the awarded companies, both from Italy and China, there were markets leaders in a variety of sectors from food to mechanics, finance and green energies as well as smaller investors that have seized the opportunities offered by the two countries.
The European branch of Dagong Global Credit Rating Co. coach business bags outlet , Ltd., China's domestic rating agency, was awarded as "one of the players that have particularly distinguished themselves in promoting bilateral relations."
Established in Milan last year, Dagong Europe Credit Rating was the first Asian rating company operating in the European Union (EU) as the result of a Sino-Italian joint venture between Dagong Global Credit Rating and Mandarin Capital Partners, a private equity fund by institutional investors from Europe and China.
Italy's luxury car maker Ferrari was given a special price for enhancing the role of sports in the dialogue between Italy and China.
"I remember the first F1 China GP in 2004, when I took a call and I saw so many red flags waving around me coach accessories outlet clearance , it was impressing," Ferrari's President Luca Cordero di Montezemolo told the around 250 distinguished guests who attended the China Awards.
"If there is a country that can help Italy, it is China," Paolo Panerai, head of the Italian media group Class Editori, which organized the China Awards along with the Italy-China Foundation coach accessories outlet , said. "But what Italy needs is not much investments but rather China's positive energy," he added.
Panerai, who was the first Italian journalist to interview the architect of China's opening-up Deng Xiaoping and since then has strengthened his friendship with the country, also highlighted his group's partnership with Xinhua that he described as an international "news giant."
"When the China Awards was created eight years ago, China was considered in Italy more a menace than an opportunity," Cesare Romiti coach handbags outlet clearance , president of Italy-China Foundation, noted.
"Today China has a very different image, and the success of so many companies that have built deep relations with China is the evidence," he said.
One of the Italian personalities who particularly succeeded in contributing to this change was actress and producer Maria Grazia Cucinotta, who was given a special "golden lion" price for her bridging role between the two countries.
Cucinotta's latest movie is a romantic comedy filmed in Italy and China. The film is a co-production between the two countries and is currently in post-production. "I have visited China many times and I have always tried my best to go deep into that fascinating culture," she said.
"It is beautiful every time to bring something from Italy to China and bring back something else from China to Italy. I love cooking Chinese food coach handbags outlet , I can say that a part of me has become Chinese," she stressed.
Proceeds from the dinner were destined to the Lifeline Express project, a rainbow-colored hospital-train that provides free cataract operations to patients in rural China. While working on the eye-train, eye-doctors are trained to facilitate the future development.
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz speaks at a campaign event at Lakeside Plastics in Oshkosh, Wisconsin March 25, 2016.
Republican Ted Cruz on Friday denounced an article in the National Enquirer tabloid claiming he had extramarital affairs as "complete and utter lies" and accused rival Donald Trump of being the source of the story.
The story took the Republican presidential race to a new level of personal rancor and Trump issued a statement saying he was not responsible for it.
"I have nothing to do with the National Enquirer and unlike Lyin' Ted Cruz I do not surround myself with political hacks and henchman and then pretend total innocence coach madison wristlet small ," Trump said.
Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, addressed the Enquirer story at a news conference in Wisconsin, saying, "Let me be clear. This National Enquirer story is garbage. It is complete and utter lies. It's tabloid smear and it is a smear that has come from Donald Trump and his henchmen."
Trump's statement pointed to other articles the Enquirer, a tabloid known for its gossip and unflattering celebrity photos coach legacy wristlet small , had been correct about in the past.
"Ted Cruz’s problem with the National Enquirer is his and his alone, and while they were right about O.J. Simpson, John Edwards, and many others, I certainly hope they are not right about Lyin’ Ted Cruz," the billionaire New York developer said.
Trump and Cruz have sparred in recent days about their wives as they battle to be the Republican nominee in the Nov. 8 election. Earlier this week Trump accused Cruz of posting a nude photo of Trump's wife coach poppy wallet black , Melania, on Twitter. Cruz denied having any role in the photo being circulated on the Internet and Trump responded by threatening to "spill the beans" on Cruz's wife.
Cruz said the Enquirer story was evidence that Trump is unfit to be president. "This man would be an embarrassment," he said.
The Enquirer published blurred images of five women with whom it said Cruz has had affairs but did not name them. Two women who appeared to be pictured in the Enquirer stepped forward on Friday and called the article false.
The National Enquirer could not immediately be reached for comment on the story.
Cruz' wife, Heidi Cruz, was campaigning with him on Friday and he gave her a hug and kiss before he began a town hall event. She sat off stage smiling while he spoke.
This is not the first time a presidential candidate has been accused of extramarital sex.
During the 1992 campaign, Gennifer Flowers came forward to detail an affair sh.