Chinese weddings are as much about the happy couples as they are about their families. The weddings are
The Chinese wedding invitation is
While Chinese wedding traditions have modernized, the journey to pick up the bride
Another vital tradition, the Chinese tea ceremony (Jing Cha),
The Big Bang theory is science’s best explanation of how the universe began. The theory insists that our universe
Since the late 1960s, the Big Bang theory
Farm life can be quite fun and memorable. One day down on the farm, something funny happened and my cousin and I got into big trouble with sheep.
It was one of those hot and
We two knew nothing about farm work, not to mention
We hurried to the cottage for more wood, but when we got back, we were
We were exhausted, but we found farm work rather interesting and we enjoyed it a lot. What
Last year when Tom graduated from school, he came to Sydney. He didn’t like to work on his father’s farm and hoped
At that time, a woman with a
By recycling paper we save our trees, but we also recycle glass bottles, paper and plastic.
Health regulations once prevented recycled plastic
Rain water
New technology is
Three Hours a Week: Play Time’s over for China’s Young Video Gamers
China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent(严苛的)social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to
The new rules,
The restrictions, which apply to any devices including phones, are a body blow to a global gaming industry that caters to tens of millions of young players in the world’s most profitable market.
They limit under - 18s to
The rules from the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA) regulator coincide with a broader clampdown(压制)by Beijing
The campaign
Gaming companies will be barred from providing services to minors in any form outside the stipulated(规定)hours and
The new rules swiftly became one of the most discussed topics on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter. Some users expressed support for the measures
“This is so fierce that I’m utterly speechless,” said one comment that received over 700 likes.
The NPPA regulator told Xinhua it
The Taj Mahal, in Agra, India,
In the 1990s, India’s Supreme Court ordered
Now and then, workers use a mud paste (泥巴膜) to remove dirt
More action needs to be taken
The young applicant is described as confident and courageous. His resume, at 15 pages, is glittering, complete with performance reviews (“full of energy”), a map of his travels (trips to Tokyo and Bali) and a list of books he
The resume,
Some called for the parents of the boy
Yong Zhao, a professor of education at the University of Kansas, said the debate reflected widespread anxiety
Xiong Bingqi, deputy head of the 21 century Education Research Institute in Beijing, said China needed to distribute education resources
“There is a competition to rank every student,” he said, “Under these circumstances, of course parents want their kids to rank in the top. Then it worsens this kind of anxious competition.”
The problem of robocalls has gotten so bad that many people now refuse to pick up calls from numbers they don’t know. By next year, half of the calls we receive will be scams (欺诈). We are finally waking up to the severity of the problem
That’s
These developments are likely to make our current problems with robocalls much worse. The reason that robocalls are a headache has less to do with amount than precision. A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information
We need to deal with the insecure nature of our telecom networks. Phone carriers and consumers need to work together to find ways of determining and communicating what is real. That might mean either developing a uniform way to mark videos and images, showing when and who they were made by, or abandoning phone calls altogether and moving towards data-based communications — using apps like FaceTime or WhatsApp,
Credibility is hard to earn but easy to lose, and the problem is only going to get harder from here on out.
Great Britain is made up of four countries: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In the 16th century, Wales
England is
The United Kingdom has a long history to explore,