Monthly Archives: April 2010

Over the past ten-odd years China has successively signed bilateral environmental protection cooperation agreements and memorandums of understanding with the United States, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Canada, India, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Russia, Germany, Australia, Ukraine, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and the Netherlands. Exchanges and cooperation have been carried out in environmental [...]

Chinese athletes are looking forward to not only glittering medals around their necks but also an Olympic Games in their own country.
Lang Ping, a former world and Olympic women's volleyball champion player who currently coaches in a major Italian club, helped Chinese women's volleyball reach the climax by winning five world and Olympic titles in [...]

George Manson University instructor Anna Marchant called them "patchwork2 plagiarists3" —the students who copy and paste together passages from articles they've found on the Internet, then turn in the work as their own.
She catches at least one such student every semester in her computer-science class, she said. She even discovers such plagiarism in her computer [...]

Birds are friends of human and they should be better protected, says Liu Hua, a student from a Beijing primary school.
Liu was one of many students who painted trees and birds on a 100-metre-long piece of white cloth in Chaoyang Park, an activity organized by the State• Forestry Administration to mark Beijing' s 20th Bird [...]

Here is a strong view that holds that success is a myth, and ambition therefore is a sham. Does this mean that success does not really exist? That achievement is at bottom empty? That the efforts of men and women are of no significance alongside the force of movements and events? Now not all success, [...]

Some years ago I took on an assignment in a southern county to work with people on public welfare. What I wanted to do was show that everybody has the capacity to be self-sufficient and all we have to do is to activate them. I asked the county to pick a group of people who [...]

Small boats loaded with wares sped to the great liner as she was entering the harbour. Before she had anchored, the men from the boats had climbed on board and the decks were soon covered with
colourful rugs from Persia, silks from India, copper coffee pots, 5 and beautiful handmade silverware. It was difficult not to [...]

People travelling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land, sea, or air. Hardly anyone can positively enjoy sitting in a train for more than a few hours. Train compartments soon get cramped and stuffy. It is almost impossible to take your mind off the journey. Reading is only [...]

The girl Hannah was seventeen, and she had made almost all that array of cakes and pastries on the kitchen dresser. She stood looking at them, her healthy pink ft glowing with pride. She wore a blue dress and a white apron, and her hair waved do her back to her waist in a golden-brown [...]

"Setting goals is the first step to success," we often say. In my opinion, everyone should have a clear and definite goal and map out a plan in both the short and long term. It is especially important for freshmen, who are often confused while facing a completely new life that is very different from [...]