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• Chinese accountability

  
  The Long Hol — Authority: 99
  On my first visit to China a couple of months ago, I realised that everything we have all heard about China is pretty much right. The main point being that it has awesome infrastructure (clean, wide roads, for god’s sake – how do they do it!).But the real eye-opener was the undercurrent of government ...
  2 days ago

• Friday Link Love: Road Trips, Google Maps, Travel Companies That Give Back and More

  
  NileGuidance: A Travel Blog — Authority: 426
  Plenty of interesting travel stuff around the web this week: Road trip fan? Hate hours in the car? Love ‘em or hate ‘em, check out Gadling writers Annie Scott and Mike Barish go head to head with Top Ten Reasons that Road Trips Suck vs. Top Ten Reasons that Road Trips Rock . Need a little destination ...
  3 days ago

• Chinas Weather Modification Office: A Government Entity That Controls The Weather

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Remember the old saying that everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it? Well, not China! The country has a Weather Modification Office that aims to control the weather: Chinese meteorologists say they brought about Beijing’s earliest snowfall in a decade, after seeding rain clouds with ...
  6 days ago

• China Cleaning Up Two Toxic Spills on Yangtze River, Drinking Water Source of Millions

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 723
  Should Shipping on the Yangtze be Made Safer and Cleaner? Even when everythings going according to plan, cargo ships can be major sources of air pollution (see " Just 15 of the worlds biggest ships may now emit as much pollution as all the worlds 760m cars "), but when things go wrong and theyre carrying dangerous ...
  6 days ago

• Lili DeBarbieri- Publication of Travel Feature

  
  The Brainpan — Authority: 140
        Lili DeBarbieri, Yuma, is pleased to announce publication of her travel feature, “Take a Dip: Southwestern Hot Springs off Minerals, Mud, and Mountain Majesty,” in the July, 2009 edition of Earth Odyssey Magazine, (web version www.earthodysseyonline.com ).  Another, “Green Eyes A Shining: ...
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• China Travel – Wuwei

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Located in the east part of the Hexi Corridor in the west of Gansu Province, Wuwei has Qilian Mountains to its south, the Tengger Desert to its northeast, the Lianguliang Valley to its east, the Gobi of Yongchang County to its west, and the Beisha River, boundary line with Yongchang County and Minqin County, to ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Men race to 1500m semifinals

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Rashid Ramzi of Bahrain has clocked the fastest time in round one of the Men’s 1500m at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on Friday, August 15, at the National Stadium, with a time of 3:32.89. Mohamed Moustaoui of Morocco ran the second fastest time behind Ramzi to qualify with a time of 3:34.80, while Augustine ...
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• China Travel – Wuhan

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  One of the six top cities of China, Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province and the center of Central China in terms of industry, finance, business, science and education. It has under its jurisdiction nine districts, two suburb areas and two counties with a land area of 8,467 square kilometers and a population of ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Flash: Women open Steeplechase

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  The Olympic Women’s 3000m Steeplechase kicked off with round 1 on August 15, at the National Stadium in Beijing. Russia’s Gulnara Galkina-Samitova, current world record holder, finished first with a time of 9:15.17. Ruth Bosibori Nyangau from Kenya placed second in 9:15.75. Eunice Jepkorir, also from Kenya, ...
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• China Travel – Tianjin

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  The biggest open city in the coastal area of North China, Tianjin wins itself the name of the Pearl of the Bohai Sea. Tianjin is in a temperate, continental monsoonal climate zone with four clearly demarcated seasons. The average annual temperature is 12.2oC with the lowest in January of -4oC and the ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Poland claims gold in Men’s Shot Put

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Tomasz Majewski of Poland displays a national flag of Poland. (Photo credit: Liao Yujie/Xinhua) Photo Gallery >> ( BEIJING , August 15) — Tomasz Majewski of Poland won gold in the Men’s Shot Put final at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Friday, August 15, at the National Stadium . His best ...
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• China Travel – Shouxian

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  With ancient names of Shouchun, Shouyang and Shouzhou, Shouxian is located in the middle of Anhui Province and the south bank of the Huaihe River, with 32 towns and villages under its jurisdiction. The seat of Shouxian was once the capital of the Kingdom of Cai, the Kingdom of Chu, the Kingdom of Huainan ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Jamaica qualifies fastest for Men’s 400m Hurdles semifinal

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Markino Buckley of Jamaica has run the fastest time of round one in the Men’s 400m Hurdles preliminaries at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Friday, August 15, at the National Stadium . His personal best time of 48.65 seconds put him ahead of Angelo Taylor of the United States, who ran second fastest to ...
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• China Travel – Shenyang

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Shenyang lies in the middle of Liaoning Province, south of Northeast China. With hills grouped in the southeast, Shenyan is a flat land of plains. The slope of the terrain is from northeast to southwest, with the alluvion of the Liaohe and the Hunhe rivers. It has many rivers like the Liaohe River, the Hunhe ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Fountain leads Heptathlon after four events

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  The 200m, the Heptathlon’s fourth discipline, concludes the Heptathlon event’s first day, August 15, at the National Stadium. After falling from first to second after the third discipline (Shot Put) American Hyleas Fountain has taken back the lead with a total score of 4060. Hyleas leads by 64 points. ...
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• China Travel – Shanghai

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Called Hu for short, Shanghai is one of the most important industrial areas and foreign trading port. It is located at the 31°14′ of the north latitude and the 121°29′ of the east longitude, under the direct jurisdiction of the central government. It is in the front part of the Yangtze Delta and in the ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Ethiopia’s Dibaba gets gold and new OR Women’s 10000m

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia(C) takes gold in the Women’s 10000m in Beijing Photo Gallery >> (BEIJING, August 15) — Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia won gold and set a new Olympic Record in the Women’s 10000m at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games on August 15. Dibaba’s time of 29:54.66 was enough to break ...
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• A bit ‘o’ travel and meeting the Infamous Paddy

  
  Asian Ramblings — Authority: 110
  I’m back in China . Okay, Hong Kong is China so I never really left. If that’s the case why is there that pesky border? Three days in the city I love to hate. Some times I think that Hong Kong is the city where bitter expats go to die, like an elephant graveyard. It used to be the city that Brits who ...
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• China Travel – Shangqiu

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Lying in the easternmost of Henan Province, Shangqiu is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese people. Shangqiu is the hometown of Confucius’ forefathers, Zhuang Zhou and Hua Mulan. It is the origin of the Shang Culture and trade. In the antiquity, the ancestor of the Chinese people, the Suiren, Gaoxin, ...
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• Beijing Olympic – Trafton stays in front of Women’s Discus

  
  Learn Chinese — Authority: 147
  Stephanie Brown Trafton from the United States is still in the lead after group B’s results were posted. Her distance of 62.77m is 0.26m further than the second place thrower, Nicoleta Grasu. Trafton’s throw was also 4.23m farther than her throw in Athens 2004 where she did not make it into the finals. This ...
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