Dragon Boat Festival: How to Make Zongzi

May 28th, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style | 1 Comment »

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Dragon Boat Festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. In 2009 this falls on May 28. According to the custom the celebrations includes eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats.

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Woman in Red Pole Dancing on Shanghai Subway, Passengers Stunned

May 27th, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style, News | 1 Comment »

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From NetEase: Morning News reported May 26, recently, the video of “female pole dancing on Shanghai subway” appeared on varies video sharing sites such as Todo(土豆). And soon it became the major forum reprint. For this bold act, many Chinese netizens are surprised and offended at the same time.

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Female Sanitation Worker Found 3 Million Worth of Gold Jewelry, Could Face Life Sentence

May 27th, 2009 by | Posted in News | No Comments »

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From QQ:

A controversial case appeared in Shenzhen: an Shenzhen airport cleaning worker Liang Li who makes only thousands monthly salary accidently “picked up” a case of more than 3 million yuan worth of gold jewelry next to the trash can. Liang may be prosecuted for theft, if convicted due to huge amount Liang faces a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

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Funny Chinese to English Translations

May 22nd, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style | 2 Comments »

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From Mop:

Here are some funny signs of Chinese to English translations, enjoy!

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Shooting Incident at Putuo District in Shanghai, 2 Men were Wounded

May 22nd, 2009 by | Posted in News | No Comments »

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From NetEase:

May 22 Eastday Reported today 12:45 at Changshou road 882 Lane Putuo district Shanghai occurred a gun related incident, one man was wounded and taking to the hospital. Currently Putuo police is investigating the matter.

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Chongqing: The First Underwater Museum in China has Been Built and Opened

May 21st, 2009 by | Posted in News | 3 Comments »

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From NetEast:

Chongqing Morning Posts reports on May 19, Chongqing Fuling Baiheliang (涪陵白鹤梁) underwater museum – the cultural relic protection projects in Three-Gorge reservoir district, which was invested for over 200 millions RMB, has opened to the public on May 18.

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Hong Kong Man Viciously Attacks Tourist Mother and Boy with Foul Languages Captured on Film

May 20th, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style, News | 7 Comments »

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Information Times reported on May 19, this film of a “Hong Kong man viciously attacks tourist (from mainland China) mother and boy on a train using foul languages because the kid was coughing without covering his mouth” was posted on Youku and Youtube. In the clip Hong Kong man in both Mandarin and Cantonese “bombing” the family of three with foul languages. The incident was started because the male of the family was cough without covering his mouth. » Continue Reading

Waitress Stabbed Government Official to Death for Making Sexual Advances on her

May 19th, 2009 by | Posted in News | 13 Comments »

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Beijing Times May 14 reports, on the evening of May 10, three Hubei Province Badong County government staff came to the entertainment venue Dream City, started an argument with the waitress Deng Yujiao (邓玉娇). Waitress stabbed one of them to death with a fruit knife and injured the other two.

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Mistress Recruitment Includes Number of Weekly Sexual Intercourse as a Requirement, Girls send Resumes to Apply

May 18th, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style, News | 18 Comments »

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From MOP:

Recently, a notice of “mistress recruitment” posted in a bus station in front of Jiangsu Institute of Arts attracted the attention of many netizens. Reporter was able to contact the person of recruitment. He said that so far he has received more than 20 girls’ resumes, there are more than 60% are female students.

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Chongqing “Sex Park” (Love Land) Dismantled for being Vulgar and Explicit

May 17th, 2009 by | Posted in Life Style, News | 5 Comments »

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From NetEast

Chongqing Evening News reported on May 17 disputed of being vulgar and obscene the Westerner Street (洋人街) “Sex Park” (“性公园”) (named “Love Land”) which was currently under construction was dismantled yesterday afternoon.

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China’s Table Tennis Makes the Word “Sweep” a Derogatory Term

May 16th, 2009 by | Posted in News | 1 Comment »

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From QQ:

World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama in 2009 for men and women’s singles finals played on the 5th of this month.  Chinese top seed Wang Hao (王皓) and Olympic singles champion Zhang Yining (张怡宁) won the respective men’s and women’s singles title. All the five gold medals at World Table Tennis Championships in Yokohama were bagged by China. China achieved another “sweep” in world table tennis championships history.

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Cure your Children’s Internet Addiction with Electric Shocks Aversion Therapy

May 14th, 2009 by | Posted in News | 3 Comments »

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From QQ:

Recently couple internet posts put “National Expert of Quitting Internet” YANG Yongxin’s (杨永信) internet addiction treatment model into the spotlight.  Currently there are over 100 children remain in Linyi City‘s fourth people’s Hospital in Shandong Province under this treatment, not allowed to leave.  China Youth Daily reporter verifies the qualifications of physicians from other areas of mental health practitioners found that the treatment is using electric shocks to “punish” the person who has “internet addiction”, this stimulation known as aversion therapy.

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Xu Xiaonian: Shanghai Forever Cannot Catch Up with Hong Kong

May 10th, 2009 by | Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

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From NetEast:

Editor’s note: The Boao Asia forum 2009 annual meetings are held on April 17th- 19th in Boao, Hainan, this annual meeting subject is “the economic crisis and Asia: The challenge and the forecast”, the following is the factual record of the Central Europe International Industry and Commerce Institute Professor Xu Xiaonian’s answers to the reporter’s questions.

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Wenchuan Earthquake Museum is about to Open

May 8th, 2009 by | Posted in News | 1 Comment »

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May 12, 2009 marks the one year anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the Sichuan province of China. Wenchuan earthquake museum is built within one year to commemorate this disaster.

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Photos: Shanghai in 1993

May 8th, 2009 by | Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

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From NetEase:
Here are some photos of Shanghai in 1993…

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