Why don't they use dynamite? Labourers use excavators on top of a residential building being demolished in Yuhuan County of Taizhou City, Zhejiang province



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Nuts!

http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/videos/warriors-of-goja-on-indian-talent-show-goes-viral-in-china.html

There is a management and philosophical concept that these three things are part of our make-up

One view - that I agree with is that we are good in two areas but tend to be weak in the third.

Now - this is difficult but I would guess that I am a Head and Heart guy - but not so good on the Guts

Head - good at thinking, rationalising. reasoning etc

Heart - good at feeling, empathy, understanding

Guts - good at doing, making things happen, being…

Do u want to spend Spring Festival in Chinese family?

My friend Chole, whose hometown is Guilin, intends to invite a foreigner(female) to her home this winter vacation.

The most exiciting thing is that u can stay at her home for the entire trip for free, also including meals. 

What's special, u can earn ectra money in this trip, cus Chole wants to do remedial English classes for the high…

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Feature/2011/12/02/Funny%2Bman%2Bmakes%2Bserious%2Bpoints/

Students queue up as chemist-turned-comedian Joe Wong appears at Fudan University on Monday night, not for stand-up but for what was billed as an inspirational lecture about his life.…

Just to let you all know.....

Coca-Cola Co. (KO), the world’s largest soft-drink maker, said it’s cooperating with Chinese authorities investigating the death of a child who China News Service said died after consuming a Minute Maid milk beverage.

The child and an adult in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, became…

Melbourne, Victoria's capital, was designed on a grand scale, with expansive streets and expensive stores, but somehow alleys and byways got bolted on. Now, says Michael Kerr, they are being rediscovered.

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A Chinese firm has decided Scorpios and Virgos are too moody and critical, telling job seekers with those star signs they need not apply. Capricorns, Pisces and Libras, on the other hand, are welcome.

Thank goodness - I am a Pisces!…

After hearing Richard Romans Radical, almost unbelievable views on climate change, i have to say that studies like this found on the BBC are in fact, only reinforcing the issue that we; as human beings, are not really changing anything!! Really???

Climate sensitivity to CO2 probed

Global temperatures could be less sensitive to changing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels than…

Ningshan County, nestled deep in the Qinling Mountains of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, has extended its compulsory education program to 15 years, offering local students free schooling from kindergarten to high school.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-11/24/content_23991988.htm

what is the best way to remit $ to switzerland from Changchun?.

World's largest dating event sees 20,000 Chinese search for love On a sunny day on the outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday, 20,000 hopeful, curious and in some cases desperate Chinese gathered for the world's largest dating event.

Do you like to play tennis?
Let me know. Thanks.

Better than beijing!

Beijing pea-soup pollution has deteriorated dramatically in recent months forcing a lead official to concede the country's air standards were not being monitored correctly.

As a pall of yellow-brown smog settled over Beijing yesterday (FRI), the city's air pollution index stood at 84, or grade 2. That officially made it a "blue sky day", according to Beijing's environmental bureau.

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For The Fallen

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,

England mourns for her dead across the sea.

Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,

Fallen in the cause of the free.



Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal

Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,

There is music in the midst of desolation

And a glory that shines upon our tears.



They went with songs to the battle, they were young,…

Far from promoting growth and political solidarity, which is what the single currency was supposed to do, the euro is in fact achieving the opposite effect, by condemning the eurozone to long term recession and now extreme political infighting. Again, it cannot be right to persist with something which is achieving the opposite of what it was meant to simply because the alternatives are thought to be worse.

What does anyone here think? This is serious