http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7000931.stm
In the first of a series of pieces on China’s one-child policy, the BBC’s Michael Bristow looks at whether the country’s controversial regulations are working.
Some parents in China are happy with one child
China’s family planning policy has prevented 400 million births, officials say.
Since the regulations were introduced in 1978, China has kept its population in [...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8383424.stm
Over 2,000 trafficked children have been rescued since China’s government began a crackdown on the trade in stolen children earlier this year.
But as the BBC’s Damian Grammaticas reports from Beijing, many thousands of children are being snatched off the streets to be sold every year and most are never recovered.
The footage from the CCTV [...]
Saturday is finally over. Thank you, God. It was a day filled with spills and thrills; plus a lot of shit I can’t write about. Let me break it down for you Spaghetti Western style.
The Good
I slept in till 11:40 a.m., a November 2009 high. All month I have been plagued by insomnia, tutoring jobs, [...]
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/11/27/china.plane.crash/index.html
Beijing, China (CNN) — Three American crew members died when a Zimbabwean cargo plane crashed early Saturday at Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said.
The embassy said one of the injured crew members was also an American.
The crash happened at about 8:15 a.m. (7:15 p.m. ET Friday) during takeoff in Shanghai, according [...]
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/cityguides/guangdong/shenzhen/nightlife.htm
To experience nightlife in Shenzhen, visitors should check out one of the many bars and clubs. Locals, especially the young, go there to unwind, socialize with friends or just listen to music. This can be very relaxing for them after a busy and stressful workday.
Bars and Clubs
Shenzhen has two famous streets noted for their [...]
http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/12/09/shenzhen-gateway-to-chinas-roaring-economy/
By Nick Macfie
I first arrived in Hong Kong in 1982 and stayed, on and off, for 14 years. One of the most exciting day trips for tourists to the British colony back in those days was to the border, by clattering, non-air-conditioned train and then a short taxi drive to a vantage point, close to [...]
I got this info from http://www.chinatour.com/attraction/shenzhen.htm
Shenzhen is located in the southern tip of China, borders Hong Kong to the south. It has a total area of 2,020 square km. The terrain is higher in the northeast and lower in the southwest. With a marine climate, Shenzhen has an average temperature of 22.4 degree centigrade throughout [...]
Being from the Cleveland area, Beer Monster believes Bone Thugs N Harmony to be the best rap group of all time. He plays the following song entirely too much and accomplished the feat of getting it stuck in all of our friends’ heads. Now, each of us refers to the song on a regular basis, [...]
I didn’t do a traditional Thanksgiving lesson with my students this week. Standing up there and spewing information about turkey and football and the Macy’s parade felt like total bullshit to me. So, instead, I told them that I was going to teach them a song, and then I put the lyrics for “Don’t Drink [...]
Our school’s cafeteria food blows. It costs the teachers 4 RMB to feast on an all you can eat buffet of utter shit. Beer Monster and I rarely eat there anymore. Nan Tou is the oldest high school in Shenzhen, and the maze of streets next to it has buildings that are over 100 years [...]
