Grad Student Sentenced

Pan Jie, a graduate student at a university in Shanghai, was sentenced to five-year imprisonment last week by the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Court for the death of four and wounding of six others in a car accident earlier this year. On February 10, Pan drove her Ford coupe to the Pudong International Airport to meet her parents. On the way, she lost control of the vehicle and crashed int...

Learn Chinese and Learn to Get Ahead

It is hard to imagine trying to get by in the UK without English. As English is the global language, the majority of those in British shops and businesses do not speak anything other than English. There's precious little you can achieve in the country beyond tourism if you do not speak English. But it's a different picture in Beijing of course. All signs here are in both Chinese and English and...

Children's Painting Exhibition on Shanghai Expo Opens in Bangladesh

A children's painting exhibition titled "Hello, Shanghai Expo" opened in Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka Tuesday. Joint organized by Shanto-Mariam Foundation of Bangladesh and CRI-SMF Confucius classroom, the exhibition attracted nearly 200 children, said Yang Weiming, director of CRI-SMF Confucius classroom. She said, "The 2010 World Expo is holding in Shanghai, we expect the Bangladeshi peo...

Five Cool Ways to Beat the Heat

Many Beijing hospitals reported a sharp increase in the number of outpatients and emergency cases last week because of the heat wave. Besides sunstroke and dehydration, most of the patients suffered from high fevers, heart disease, vomiting, asthma and other heat-related problems, according to Dr Li Jianren of the Beijing Emergency Center. The number of people complaining of cold and rheum...

Shanghai's Female Students More Open Toward Sex

A new survey shows that more than half of female graduate students in Shanghai show an understanding attitude toward other girls who are kept as lovers by rich men or who work at night clubs. The survey was conducted by the journalism school of Fudan University in June with more than 900 female students at the city's 17 universities who graduate this year. About 40 percent were from Shanghai, w...

Memory Tricks Shock Students

Parents and educators are not so keen on claims of miracle results or sky-high fees. It takes Huang Jingu, a Grade 4 primary student, 30 minutes to memorize 80 English words and 44 seconds to read and comprehend a 16-page newspaper. The 9-year-old student of Baiyunlu primary school is not exceptional; she is attending a short private training class that promises outstanding memory and speed-rea...

Students Say 'no' to Summer Job Scam

About 200 students in Hebei Province demanded their money back for claims they had been cheated by an employment service which had found them summer jobs. They discovered that they had to work longer hours for less pay than originally promised. The students, 190 of which from Shijiazhuang-based Hebei Vocational College of Political Science and Law, contracted Boxiang Communications, a company w...

Should "Harvard girl" be a Role Model?

The results of the annual college entrance examinations are in, and the media are full of success stories. We're told that Li Taibo, a senior at Renmin University High School, obtained the highest score in science in Beijing. Li is no bookworm, according to the media, which describe him as a guy who plays the piano, loves Mozart and painting, and chairs the student union. Li has won a nationa...

Measuring up to learning Chinese

The response of Chinese on learning their foreign friends are learning Chinese, is almost invariably - "Learning Chinese is very difficult." This is true, but I don't think foreigners should be discouraged, as learning Chinese can also be easy and fun. What makes Chinese hard for a learner whose native language uses the Latin alphabet? Chinese characters. In this case, a learner of Cyrillic, ...

Shang Hai Biennale: Artists' Festival

The 8th Shanghai Biennale will be a worldwide artistic experimentation, presenting about 70 artists from 23 countries and regions in the world, organizers announced Friday, at the National Art Museum of China.For the first time, a wide range of art projects will be accomplished in different venues in different countries around the world, including US, Spain, Vietnam and Laos, with the various ou...