Soon after Amy Johnson graduated with a degree in education, she left Louisiana to teach English in a small town in Harbin, in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. It seemed like a good way to use her degree, live in a foreign country and make a living at the same time.
The truth needs no interpretation, so said Nicole Kidman in 2005 Hollywood blockbuster The Interpreter. For Chinese interpreters, one of the most appealing truths about their profession is a salary of up to 30,000 yuan ($ 3,900) a month. But not everybody can earn such a serious income.
Some interpreters in China attract the same public attention as film stars, especially at the annual National People's Congress (NPC) and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), the nation's most important political meetings.
Bangladesh and Chinese photographers dominated the ranks of Gold Prize winners of the Asia Press Photo Contest, the results of which were announced in Beijing yesterday. Eight photographers, journalists and freelance photographers from around the world distinguished themselves from more than 700 candidates from about 20 Asian countries and regions. Polish and Canadian photographers submitted entries too.
Hostelling is a relatively new concept in China, but as more and more Chinese catch the travel bug, they are finding that the country's youth hostels offer much more than budget bedding.
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