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Chinese high school students hooked up to IV drips so they will stay alert as they cram for the Chinese College Entrance Examination, an exam in China that may determine a student’s entire future. Some 9.5 milion students will take the two-day exam in June to compete for some 6.5 places in Chinese colleges. The competition is most intense for the elite universities like Beijing’s Peking University and Tsinghua University …
US-based gaming developer PopCap was one of the early movers that set up branch in China during 2008 to tap into the Chinese mobile gaming market. The company’s products like Plants vs Zombies, Zuma and Bejeweled already enjoy immense popularity with Chinese gamers. The US company has partnered with Chinese Internet giant Tencent to launch the new Plants vs Zombies Great Wall edition. The new edition will not take place in the backyard of a westerner’s house, but rather on the Great Wall of China. The zombies in the game will be Chinese zombies wearing ancient official robes …
We believe Ferrari is getting more and more politically sensitive in China. In March, a crash involving a Ferrari in Beijing led to widespread speculation over the identity of the driver and the blocking of the keyword “Ferrari” on Chinese social networks. The driver was suspected to be a high-ranking official’s son. Now another similar accident had happened in Singapore. A tragic three-vehicle accident caused by a speeding Ferrari driven by a young and fabulously rich mainland Chinese immigrant killed three people, including himself. The Ferrari collided into a taxi, which subsequently hit a motorcycle. Rumors are swirling that the dead Ferrari driver is the son of Secretary-General of the State Council from China …
Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng and his family have arrived in the US from Beijing after a month long diplomatic stand-off. The 40-year-old self-taught lawyer, who is blind, was allowed to travel to the U.S. following negotiations between the two countries. Chen and his wife, and their two young children were greeted with cheers on arrival at the New York University apartment block in Manhattan that now becomes their new home. He expressed gratitude to the American embassy for ushering him to a new, free life in the United States. He said: “I hope everybody works with me to promote justice and fairness in China” …
The facebook CEO and his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan (ethnic Chinese) are married, only a day after he became one of the richest men on the planet. And because it is a wedding ceremony, Zuckerberg was wearing a suit ! No jeans and hoodie for such an memorable moment. Zuckerberg just updated his facebook status to “married”. The ceremony took place in Palo Alto, Calif over at Zuckerberg’s backyard with fewer than 100 guests, who all thought they were there to celebrate Chan’s graduation …
Baidu said they will announce a tie-up next week for new mobile devices, which is going to be similar when Dell launched a smartphone running on Baidu’s Yi platform last December. The new smartphone will run an upgraded version of Baidu Yi — called Baidu Cloud. Besides, the executive teased details of the launch that the company will announce a few partnerships next week, and that’s probably indicating Foxconn and ZTE or perhaps some other handset makers.
The blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng has become the heart of a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States. The activist escaped from his house arrest like prison break and hide inside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, seeking protection for his safety. The U.S. had sent him to the local hospital for medical treatment, a move which consider sold Chen down the river. All these dramatic scenes have turn into humorous animation, check out two video after the break. Sorry, Batman has not given any assistance to Chen’s escape …
During these few days, the blind dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng has become the heart of a diplomatic crisis between China and the United States. The activist has just escaped house arrest and made his way to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, seeking a protection for his safety. He left for medical treatment in a hospital after staying in the embassy for several days. His cell phone had stopped working during the hospital’s stay, suspect to be cut-off by the authorities. U.S. official went to the hospital to visit him, and gave him Nokia phone to stay in-touch with outside world …
A visitor was slightly injured by an elephant at the zoo after the animal was hit by a stone thrown by another visitor. The incident was happened at Wuhan city, Central China. An uncivilized male visitor threw a stone at an elephant and the smart mammal fought back by throwing a rock in the same direction. Unfortunately, the elephant’s aim was not good enough and the stone flew over the 3-meters fence, hitting another woman …
Chinese Zither, also known as Gu-Zheng, is a traditional Chinese musical instrument usually made of phoenix tree wood. It has a rectangle sound box and a surface in a curve with 21 tight strings. The common performance technique of Gu-Zheng is to pluck the strings with the thumb, index finger and middle finger of the player’s right hand, with his left hand pulling the strings. Despite the complex fingering, the instrument is now easy to start with dedicated apps and iPad device …
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