Aminta Arrington lives in Beijing with her husband and three children (who all still attend local schools) where she teaches at Renmin University of China. The Arringtons lived in Shandong Province for four years, where she taught at Taishan Medical University.
I always had a wish to see for myself and learn who Chinese are, but never really thought I would make it until September 2008.
My first letter (email) home to my wife Margo when I came to China in 2009 to study Chinese Language.
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To be or not to be, that is the question. More than a question, death is a taboo subject in Chinese culture and education. But, can we really avoid it?
Seawater near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex's No.1 reactor contained radioactive iodine at 3,355 times the legal limit.
Workers at Japan's damaged nuclear plant raced to pump out contaminated water suspected of sending radioactivity levels soaring as officials warned Monday that radiation seeping from the complex was spreading to seawater and soil.
Fears of radiation contamination from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant have prompted governments around the world to either halt food imports from Japan, or step up tests.
Authorities across Asia stepped up checks this week on Japanese imports after radioactive contaminants showed up in food and water in quake-stricken Japan following blasts at a nuclear plant last week.
Teru Suzuki, 86, says only "destiny" kept her alive after last week's magnitude-9 earthquake triggered the third big tsunami in her lifetime to level her quiet fishing town in northeastern Japan.
As Japan battles to contain the damage at its ravaged nuclear power plants, the government said it had found higher than normal levels of radioactivity in spinach and milk at farms near the plants.
Food companies in East China's Zhejiang province have been gearing up to provide products to earthquake-hit Japan.