2009/11/5 0:00:00
Science teacher and travel documentary maker Brendan Madden is hoping to put his current hometown of Qingdao, Shangdong Province, on the world happiness map. Madden has been selected as a finalist in Expedition 206, a worldwide adventure aimed at capturing happiness from all angles and sharing it around the globe.
Selected from thousands of happiness-spreading hopefuls, the 31-year-old Madden a...
2009/11/4 0:00:00
Research on what makes a marriage work shows that people in a good marriage have completed these psychological "tasks":
1 Separate emotionally from the family you grew up in; not to the point of estrangement, but enough so that your identity is separate from that of your parents and siblings.2 Build togetherness based on a shared intimacy and identity, while at the same time set boundaries to p...
2009/11/4 0:00:00
If you have watched the movie The Holiday, you might remember how Cameron Diaz swaps her house in Los Angeles with Kate Winslet in Surrey and how the two girls find life and love in their new homes.
Wu Muyang, a businessman from Shanghai, was inspired by the film to start an online house swapping platform, Haoeasy.cn, for those who want to swap houses with others in China.
Wu initially launche...
2009/11/4 0:00:00
"It's more difficult than learning a foreign language," said 20-year-old Yang Hong of Liaoning Province and an engineering management junior at Chongqing University (CU) about her foray into learning her new city's dialect.
Like Yang, many CU students from other parts of China are running into problems while living in Chongqing, and are quickly learning the value of speaking the local lingo, ex...
2009/11/3 0:00:00
The English-speaking population in Beijing will reach 6 million by the end of this year, an increase of 35 percent over the past five years, said a senior official with the foreign affairs office of the Beijing government.
"Citizens in Beijing have a high passion for learning English. Knowing the ABCs is common here. As a citizen of such a big international city, many people feel that speaking ...
2009/11/3 0:00:00
While it is no surprise that many Beijingers have taken to coffee since foreign companies arrived on the scene nearly 10 years ago, customers are hanging out at cafes not for the coffee - but the environment.
Ren Yue, 31, is the face of the Chinese coffee drinking generation. As a successful banking consultant, drinking a cup of Joe became part of her daily...
2009/11/2 0:00:00
Dalian has notched up yet another honor acknowledging the quality of its environment and its excellent urban management programs.
On Oct 13, Dalian was awarded the 2009 International Award for Livable Communities (Livcom Awards) in Category E (population over 750,000), which was presented in Pilsen, in the west of the Czech Republic. It saw off severa...
2009/11/1 0:00:00
It is learned that Changsha has been selected as one of China’s Best Cities to Start a Business through the appraisal of Chinese Society for Private Economy StudiesChina Private-owned Economic Research Center，Economic Strategy Specialty Committee of China Institute of Development Strategy Studies and Nationwide Innovative Undertaking Research Center. Over 200 cities consisting ofinc...
2009/11/1 0:00:00
China Unicom has released the results of a survey of its WCDMA network's signal quality and coverage in the 77 cities to which the network has been deployed. China Unicom conducted the survey in three stages between August 31 and September 18 in 55 major and 22 secondary cities nationwide. The survey included both road tests and call tests, and checked the quality of voice calls, video call...
2009/10/28 0:00:00
A Xiamen teenager saved a foreign boy from drowning at Huandao Road beach and refused payment from the grateful mother. The Japanese mother, called Emi, took her son to Huandao Road beach on Oct. 24th. The little boy suddenly fell into the sea while his mother was chatting with her friend. “I was totally shocked and even forgot to call for help.” Emi said, “And suddenly a young...