Posted by: socalgolfer on: May 19, 2010
Huang Guangyu, who once was the richest man in China, has been officially sentenced to spend 14 years in federal prison. He has been charged with stock-market manipulation, bribery and insider trading. Huang is the CEO and head of Gome, which is China’s largest retail chain, similar to that of a Home Depot in the [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: May 12, 2010
In Beijing on Wednesday, a 48 year old man entered a kindergarten school with a meat cleaver and started to hack away at the teachers and students. He killed a kindergarten teacher as well as 7 children. After the attack, he returned home and then committed suicide. Later on, the mother of the slain teacher also [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: April 21, 2010
On Monday April 19th, 200 school children from the Shaanxi province checked into the hospital with similar symptoms, including stomach aches and vomiting. 27 are still hospitalized with still severe pains, 20 of them are being treated with intravenous drips. After serious investigations, Chinese health officials found an excessive amount of bacteria in milk distributed [...]
Posted by: bbss23 on: April 19, 2010
Last week China experienced a 6.9-magnitude earthquake and the death tolls have been recorded at 2,039 people. Another 195 people are still missing and nearly 12,135 people were injured. Rescuers have been working night and day non-stop trying to find survivors and save as many lives as they can. Nearly 15,000 homes toppled and roughly [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: April 14, 2010
A series of several strong quakes struck China in the early morning around 7:49 am local time. It hit China’s Qinghai province. The quakes have so far killed 589 people and injured over 10,000. There are many students and workers trapped within the debris of once standing edifices and school buildings. The initial quake was [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: February 16, 2010
February 14th, as many of you know was Valentines Day. Valentines Day is often considered as the most romantic holiday of the year. It is a day of affection and love; it is a day for lovers. However, Sunday was also a very important day for the Chinese as it was Chinese New Year’s Day. [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: February 3, 2010
The United States recently struck a $6.4 billion dollars arms deal with Taiwan on Sunday. The sale included the purchase of 60 Black Hawk Helicopters, 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles; a pair of Osprey mine-hunting ships; and many sets of advanced communications systems. China has been severely opposed to the sale of F-16 fighter [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: December 2, 2009
The new Chinese cartoon star is called TUZKI. The tuzki is a popular illustrated rabbit, created by Wang Momo. Wang momo is a female comic drawer. She graduated from the animation school and communication university of china. The first motivation for her to draw Tuzki was because she wanted to record down her daily life experience. [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: December 1, 2009
In recent Chinese state run media networks, there have been articles and statements confirming the existence of “Secret, illegal “black jails”(CNN) scattered throughout China. They have had extensive sources and searches confirm these statements. Officials adamantly deny these claims. This is usually the case as the Chinese government is very strict in its censorship policies [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: November 16, 2009
President Barack Obama recently took and still is taking his tour and visit of China to expand on his global relationships and give speeches regarding the country’s policies. He spoke in Shanghai, China yesterday and in his speech, emphasized that “The United States and China do not have to be at odds despite the challenges [...]
Posted by: socalgolfer on: November 2, 2009
Chang-Won Han of the Korean National Team won the Inaugural Asian Amateur Championship this past Sunday Nov. 1st, 2009. With this monumental win and a place in history, Han also earns an invitation to the 2010 Masters at Augusta National on the PGA Tour. He also earned a spot in the International Final Qualifying Field [...]
Posted by: allie11610 on: October 26, 2009
The chinese is one of the oldest and the most complex cultures. China has been ruled by a lot of different emperors, so they have a lot of different cultures and Chinese characters. The very first Chinese character is the oracle bone script. It is the words that write on animal bone or turtle shell. And [...]
Posted by: sambo9 on: September 25, 2009
On Monday in Beijing, China mass vaccinations for the swine flu started to be administered. This action apparently makes it the first nation in the world to start inoculating its population against the horrible virus. Beijing was the leader in trying to produce a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, and officials have warned them that the demand [...]
Posted by: lazygirjl on: September 23, 2009
Greenpeace has urged the Hong Kong government to be more active in their actions against climate change. A Greenpeace activist recently introduces “Car-Free day” event to the Hong Kong’s government and immediately got full support from the Chief- Executive of the city. This event is not only helping the pollution level in Hong Kong, it [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: August 24, 2009
As we are concerned about the Chinese traditions, the Chinese Spring Festival can not be neglected. It is acknowledged that the Spring Festival plays a vital role in our cultivative field. Because it is the eastern new year’s day, inhabitants pay a lot of attention on this annual festival. Culturally, the holiday is one of the [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 24, 2009
Al menos 74 mineros murieron ayer domingo en una explosión de grisú ocurrida en una mina de la provincia china de Shanxi. Ahi se encuentran algunas de las minas consideradas más peligrosas del mundo, anunció la agencia oficial Nueva China. El accidente se produjo a las dos de la tarde, el sábado. En el momento del [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: February 18, 2009
Hillary Clinton will be making her way to several foreign countries to talk about various topics on her first trip abroad as secretary of state. Rather than going to one of the biggest stops first, she will save China for last and start out in Tokyo. Japan has feared that there has been a strain [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 3, 2009
El Primer Ministro de China Wen Jiabao estaba en el Reino Unido para una conferencia en la Universidad de Cambridge desde el sabado pasado. El zapato fue tirado por un manifestante de los derechos humanos que despues grito “Como pueden escuchar esto sin protestar!” y “Como puede la Universidad retratarse a si misma con este dictador!” Aunque el zapato no alcanzo a [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: January 22, 2009
China is having trouble this year with the bird flu virus, again. According to an article, the virus could spread faster in cold weather. The bigger problem is that next week is the Lunar New Year feasts where families gather together to celebrate the New Year. It says that an estimated 188 million [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: January 21, 2009
Wang Guiying nunca quiso contraer matrimonio porque la vida de casada le parecía “desafortunada”, pero ahora ha cambiado para no ser una carga familiar, segun lo dice el portal chino en internet Sohu. Wang, a quien le crecieron tres dientes hace tres años y se ha dejado crecer la melena negra en un gesto de “coqueteria”, vive en [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 30, 2008
Los fans en China de Guns N’ Roses se encontraban con dificultades para obtener el ultimo album grabado por el grupo americano, este nuevo CD ha sido el primero en 17 años. Este nuevo disco ha sido censurado en China por su titulo “Democracia China”. El sitio oficial de este album es www.chinesedemocracy.com pero en china estaba bloqueado [...]
Posted by: trubino on: November 24, 2008
Wong Kwong Yu is known as the richest man in mainland China. He was born in May of 1969 and is from Shantou, Guangdong. He is the chairman, the director, and the controlling shareholder of the largest consumer electronic retailer called Gome Electrical Appliances Holding Limited. It was founded in 1987, now with 587 stores [...]
Posted by: trubino on: October 29, 2008
The Pearl River has become the home of worship to the world. It’s also home to thousands of China’s manufacturing exporters, who account for more than a third of the country’s exports. But falling demand around the world for made-in-China goods is shuttering small and medium sized companies across China’s manufacturing heartland, leading to layoffs. [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: October 29, 2008
A second batch of Chinese eggs has been found to contain a large amount of the industrial chemical melamine, the Hong Kong government said. Health officials say melamine was detected in Chinese dairy products blamed for sickening 54000 children and linked to the deaths of four infants. More than 3600 children remain sick. The same [...]
Posted by: trubino on: October 15, 2008
China’s government ordered stores to pull all milk products made before Sept. 14 from their shelves until they pass the safety tests. This was the authorities’ most sweeping move yet to protect consumers from tainted milk. The government has been struggling to restore confidence in the safety of China’s food supply since the discovery in September of [...]
