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The generation of Chinese born in the 1980s start to make their mark on Chinese society

The generation of Chinese born in the 1980s, when China reformed and opened itself up, are coming of age and starting to make their mark on Chinese society. As China's economy rapidly developed over the last three decades, so have the expectations of 1980s generation, the first generation of country's single-child families to enter the workforce. They grew up with dreams of becoming the next b...

Going green tasted so good

While the closest thing most students get to gardening is stealing virtual vegetables on kaixin001.com, 28-year-old Shi Yan, a Ph.D candidate in agriculture at Renmin University of China (RUC), is going organic, promoting eco-agriculture and healthy living by bringing co-op vegetable farming to China. Organically inspired Located in Houshajian village, Haidian district, Beijing, Shi runs the ...

persistence and a discerning eye that can discover the real beauty.

Bus trips, motorbike adventures and hikes. When you travel in Cambodia, you need more than a pair of sturdy shoes and a guidebook. You also need determination, persistence and a discerning eye that can discover the real beauty. Just as Angkor is more than its wat, so too is Cambodia more than its national pride Angkor Wat. Far more than that, indeed. This Southeast Asian country can be an adv...

Climate change is transforming faster than expected

Climate change is transforming the Arctic environment faster than expected and accelerating the disappearance of sea ice, scientists said on Friday in giving their early findings from the biggest-ever study of Canada's changing north. The research project involved more than 370 scientists from 27 countries who collectively spent 15 months, starting in June 2007, aboard a research vessel above ...

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Does your heart race when your credit card bill arrives? Are you one flat tire or one emergency room visit from financial ruin? If you think a secure financial future is out of reach, you're wrong. Let Marianna Olszewski teach you how to love your money instead of running scared from it. Marianna didn't start out rich, happy and fabulous. A strapped-for-cash childhood motivated her to strive for...

Fortune of 2010 Tiger's Year

The Lunar New Year dates from 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac. Because of cyclical lunar dating, the first day of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. On the Chinese calendar, 2010 is Lunar Year 4708. On the Western calendar, the start of the New Year falls on Sunday, February 14, 2010 - The Year ...

The children of hundreds of Vietnamese women in limbo

The children of hundreds of Vietnamese women, married to Chinese villagers in South China's Guangdong Province, are unable to attend university due to regulations that prevent their families from obtaining a Hukou, or a household registration. Families are in a state of limbo, as their children cannot gain further education or social welfare unless they obtain a hukou. A hukou can only be issue...

Traditional food for Chinese New Spring Festival

Chinese New Year Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. Chinese Dumplings, Fish, Spring Rolls, Nian Gao are usually seen as delicious and eaten at this time. Chinese Dumplings: Chinese Dumplings look like silver ingots. Legend h...

"10-minute Cultural Trip" in Guangzhou

With more and more public libraries appearing in different communities across Guangzhou, Guangzhou Daily reports the creation of what has been named a "10-minute Cultural Circle." Ms. Wang, living on Binjiang Dong Lu explains to the reporter "there are various cultural venues near my home. It's only a five minutes walk from the Guangzhou Youth and Children's Library, the Wenxin Gallery along th...

Young Web Addicts Increase in China

The number of young Internet addicts had soared to 24 million by 2009, almost double the figure for 2005, as the nation's Internet population continues to skyrocket, a survey shows. The addicts accounted for one in seven young Internet users, according to the poll. "The survey results highlight the worrying situation of the ever-growing number of young Internet addicts," Hao Xianghong, secreta...