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Love doctors
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

Many hospitals perform heart surgery, but a new Chinese hospital focuses more on affairs of the heart. The hospital in Changsha provides consulting services to couples who are having marital problems. The facility is staffed with psychotherapists ...

Another clean up plan. A further attempt to fix a toxic legacy. And more talk of improving liquidity. But while…
Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8)

Another clean up plan. A further attempt to fix a toxic legacy. And more talk of improving liquidity. But while Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s latest proposals focus on unblocking the US financial system, Lin Jianhua (head of the Taihu ...

Zhang Yimou
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

Born in Xian, Shaanxi, the internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou is one of the most popular and prolific Chinese directors in the Fifth Generation, which mainly refers to graduates from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Like ...

Welcome all talents
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

Before Qin Shi Huangdi (China’s first emperor) unified the kingdom, the Warring States Period was marked by constant warfare between seven states. Originally a scholar from the state of Chu, Li Si saw the future lay with Qin. Outsiders like ...

China’s government worries about the nation’s addiction to nicotine
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

China can be described as a smokestack in more ways than one. Often used to describe its high pollution levels, the term could just as easily refer to the amount of smoke the country generates from cigarettes. The government has finally ...

Bad sports
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

There are a lot of people who lie about their age; particularly as the years creep by. Mostly it is harmless vanity. But the Guangzhou Daily reports on a more serious situation in China. The Guangdong provincial sports ministry subjected 15,000 ...

Rapprochement was in the air at Keelung harbour near Taipei this week. Sixteen hundred Chinese tourists disembarked from the Legend…
Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7)

Rapprochement was in the air at Keelung harbour near Taipei this week. Sixteen hundred Chinese tourists disembarked from the Legend of the Seas, the first passenger ship to make a direct cruise from the mainland to Taiwan. “We welcome you far ...

For whom the bell tolls...
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

Chen Shu Gu was posted to Pucheng County as its governor in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), during an outbreak of thievery. It was almost impossible to pinpoint the thief responsible. But Chen lined up the usual suspects and told them: ...

Mark Rowswell
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

You might think that Mike Myers, Keanu Reeves or Pamela Anderson are the world’s best-known Canadians. But how many of you have heard of Mark Rowswell? Known in China as Dashan (‘Big mountain’), Rowswell is a household name to 1.3 billion ...

China and Vietnam finally agree on exactly where their border is
Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6)

Ask the Americans (or the French) how difficult it is to win a war in the jungles of Vietnam. The Chinese share that view. In fact, centuries before the Tet Offensive, Emperor Zhu Di was beaten by Vietnam’s guerrilla tactics. After invading ...

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Love doctors Mar 27, 2009 (WiC 8) Many hospitals perform heart surgery, but a new Chinese hospital focuses more on affairs of the heart. The hospital in Changsha provides consulting services to couples who are having marital problems. The facility is staffed with psychotherapists ...

Zhang Yimou Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7) Born in Xian, Shaanxi, the internationally acclaimed director Zhang Yimou is one of the most popular and prolific Chinese directors in the Fifth Generation, which mainly refers to graduates from the Beijing Film Academy in the early 1980s. Like ...

Welcome all talents Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7) Before Qin Shi Huangdi (China’s first emperor) unified the kingdom, the Warring States Period was marked by constant warfare between seven states. Originally a scholar from the state of Chu, Li Si saw the future lay with Qin. Outsiders like ...

Bad sports Mar 20, 2009 (WiC 7) There are a lot of people who lie about their age; particularly as the years creep by. Mostly it is harmless vanity. But the Guangzhou Daily reports on a more serious situation in China. The Guangdong provincial sports ministry subjected 15,000 ...

For whom the bell tolls... Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6) Chen Shu Gu was posted to Pucheng County as its governor in the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), during an outbreak of thievery. It was almost impossible to pinpoint the thief responsible. But Chen lined up the usual suspects and told them: ...

Mark Rowswell Mar 13, 2009 (WiC 6) You might think that Mike Myers, Keanu Reeves or Pamela Anderson are the world’s best-known Canadians. But how many of you have heard of Mark Rowswell? Known in China as Dashan (‘Big mountain’), Rowswell is a household name to 1.3 billion ...