The year of the pig is coming to an end and many couples have had their babies, as planned. In China, people believe a baby born this year will be lucky, prosperous and fertile.
Trusting with caution is very important, says Christine Mar, executive director of the Hong Kong-based Children's Medical Foundation (CMF), as she looks back on her decade of charity work on the Chinese mainland.
I had spent more than 30,000 yuan ($3,940) on Chinese classes, 300 hours of one-on-one lessons and four months of toiling on the tones but I still couldn't order a pizza over the phone.
About 400 high school students from Western Pennsylvania and neighboring Ohio joined a heated discussion last week over "China: What Does the Future Hold?"
A US visa officer thumbed through a passport and asked the 22-year-old man in front of her: "Why are you going to the United States?"
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) fashion was ultra cool. Deep-indigo silk robes, cobalt blue collars, horseshoe-shaped red hats with gemstones on top, rubies, pearls, jade, beads, and colorful bird insignias weaved into the coats.
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