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Cir – Lesson 561
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The Chinese Ministry of Education urged Thursday local authorities to pay greater attention to the prevention of near-sightedness among students. “Near-sightedness is still a serious problem among primary and middle school students as some local education authorities and school management do not pay enough ...4 hours ago -
Cir – Lesson 560
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Indonesia’s National Flight and Space Agency (LAPAN) will help launching program of communication satellite to support long distance education held by the Ministry for the National Education, Kompas daily quoted an official as saying on Saturday. The satellite named after the country’s prominent education ...1 day ago -
Cir – Lesson 559
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Confucius Institutes around the world are now facing a short of teaching materials due to lack of translators and channels for publication and sale, said Xu Lin, director of the Confucius Institutes Headquarters on Sunday. Compared with Germany-based Goethe Institute and Spain-based Cervantes Institute, Confucius ...2 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 558
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The number of applicants for Beijing MBA programs is up 20 percent this year, showing their continued popularity amid the economic crisis. (Photo: Chinadaily.com.cn) Photo Gallery>>> BEIJING, Dec. 14 — Top business schools in Beijing have raised their tuition fees by as much as 30 percent, as ...3 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 557
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Australia announces on Tuesday a funding of more than 433 million dollars (395.58 billion U.S. dollars) that helps students from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Education, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Minister for Social Inclusion Juliao Gillard said ...4 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 556
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Macao’s oldest university, the University of Macao, is expecting a booming future as its new campus will be built in three years, said its rector Prof. Wei Zhao Tuesday. The new campus will cover an area of 1.09 square km on Hengqin Island, which is about 200 meters away from Macao but under the administration ...5 days ago -
Learn a New Language in the New Year
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We can’t help you get fit (at least physically) in the new year. But we can help you learn a new language. Our collection of Free Language Lessons covers 37 languages, and we have now developed sections dedicated to commonly sought after languages. (See below.) Please keep in mind that the collection also features ...5 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 555
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“Yi” (”Memory”), the top prize winner Gu Yanliang and Huang Xiaoling from Shanghai No. 1 Middle School.(Photo Source: Shanghai Daily) Photo Gallery>>> BEIJING, Dec. 16 — A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case, an original Chinese poem composed by high school students bout ...6 days ago -
Cir – Lesson 544
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Although there are still two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanghai residents have already started preparing for the important day. Reed leaves, glutinous rice and sachets have become popular at markets. At the gate of Yuyuan Garden branch of Tonghanchuntang traditional Chinese medicine store, the line of ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 543
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Visitors view a piece of wood-carving during the 2006 Hangzhou International Folk Handicrafts Exhibition opened on Sunday in Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province, May 28, 2006. (Source: xinhuanet.com)2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 541
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BEIJING, May 30 — A 103-year-old grandmother surnamed Xie eats zongzi, or glutinous rice dumpling, at the Yantian Social Welfare Center in Shenzhen City yesterday as a soldier from the frontier inspection force in the district looks on. Soldiers took food including zongzi, milk, oranges and apples to the elderly ...2 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 540
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BEIJING, May 30 — A 1960 oil painting by China-born Chu Teh-Chun led a Hong Kong auction of Asian modern art by Christie’s International Plc that fetched a total of HK$353 million (US$45.5 million), double the amount expected. “Village de pluie rouge, Maison de nuage blanc No. 53″ by Paris-based Chu ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 539
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Does William Shakespeare have many fans in China? The answer is yes, according to the top management of international auction house Sotheby’s. Sotheby’s reportedly brought from London the most important book in English literature: “The First Folio” of Shakespeare’s plays. This was presented in the ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 538
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BEIJING, May 29 — Although there are still two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, Shanghai residents have already started preparing for the important day. Reed leaves, glutinous rice and sachets have become popular at markets. At the gate of Yuyuan Garden branch of Tonghanchuntang traditional Chinese ...3 weeks ago -
Benefits of Learning Chinese
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The good reasons to learn Chinese are growing all the time. Learning Mandarin Chinese is the way to go, unless family or travel reasons make another version of Chinese necessary. Many believe Chinese to be a very difficult language to master, and with thousands of symbols to grasp and understand, written Chinese is ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 537
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Archaeologists have developed a clear image of a 2,000-year-old imperial garden found in south China’s Guangdong Province by studying more than 100,000 seeds found in an ancient well at the relic site. Various kinds of vegetation, including banyans and waxberries, were planted more than 2,000 ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 536
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China’s Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng said here Thursday that China attaches importance to collection and protection of cultural relics including those relating to Cultural Revolution. At a press conference of the Information Office of the State Council, Sun said lots of data and documents relating ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 535
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China has set up a database in an effort to reclaim lost cultural relic treasures abroad, said Shan Jixiang, Director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on Thursday. “The Chinese government is making its utmost to reclaim and collect the precious cultural relics lost overseas,” he told a ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 534
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Minister of Culture Sun Jiazheng has called for new protective measures to prevent celebrations of traditional Chinese festivals dying out. “However, we need to draw more attention from people in all walks of life by including traditional festivals in school textbooks, improving publicity and encouraging ...3 weeks ago -
Cir – Lesson 533
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BEIJING, May 25 (Xinhua) — The Chinese government has established an national “Cultural Heritage Day” to be celebrated annually on the second Saturday of June, Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng said here Thursday. Sun said the first “Cultural Heritage Day” would fall on June 10, with the theme ...4 weeks ago
