Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
China is well known for its cheap workforce. If you want to produce something in huge masses for a low price, China might be what you are looking for. However, over the time the younger generation becomes more educated. A good sign for a thriving economy? No. It seems as ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Warning: Don't jump in Cheer and Happiness - this is only partly good news
Quite some months ago the Chinese send their first satellite called Chang'e to the moon to create a modern moon map. A lot of people had expectations towards this mission, but once again the result is causing ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
China and the EU (European Union) planned a metting about economic cooperation, but now China is unhappy and they can't attend. China's government spokesman Qin Gang said, they don't like the idea, that France's president Nicholas Sarkozy wants to meet the Dalai Lama. I remeber the time when i was ...
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Saturday, November 15th, 2008
Giant brown clouds, man made, consisting of small particles, toxic chemicals and other artificial types of aerosols reside above China like a huge waft of mist. These clouds that can be encountered in the atmosphere above many developing countries are called Atmospheric Brown Clouds (ABCs). While they are also existing ...
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
The vice-chariman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) and the superintendent of the journalist faculty of Xiamen University (厦门大学), Zhang Mingqing (張銘清), went to Taiwan last Sunday to attend an academic event at Tainan University (台南大学). They were accompanied by a delegation of 21 other Chinese ...
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Sunday, October 12th, 2008
For a long time Germany sent development help to China. 2007 Germany gave 67.5 million Euro to China for development projects. Now the German ministry of development help announced to stop financial aid to China. During the recent years many politicians questioned these aid packages to China, because China is ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Shenzhou 7 bringing Zhai Zhigang (翟志刚), Liu Boming (刘伯明) and Jing Haipeng (景海鹏) into space
Yesterday at 25 September at 21:10 CST Shenzhou 7 started into space. 3 astronauts are on board and the whole ride hopefully lasts 3 to 5 days. China plans to conduct its first spacewalk during this ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The government has once in a while told the public that the current visa policy is not a permanent thing. Things got really worse in the beginning of April, however Beijing kept stating that this is only due to the security of the Olympic games and its visitors.
Now the games ...
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