Buzzword: time-sponger 2013-10-11 14:06:55
If you want to stop procrastinating, stay away from time-spongers.
Video: Deep in the Hutongs 2013-10-10 14:49:42
High-rise buildings and shopping malls are littered throughout Beijing. But smaller, less visible buildings in the alleys of this modern metropolis are an indispensable part of the city: the hutongs.
Video: China's Islands: Garden in the sea 2013-10-09 17:20:46
Gulangyu Island is located to the southwest of Xiamen Island，previously known as "Yuansha Zhou" and then "Yuanzhou Zai". From Gulangyu Island you can see Xiamen city across the sea. It takes 5 minutes to cross the 600 meter wide Lujiang river between Gulangyu Island and Xiamen Island.
Buzzword: ladybro 2013-10-10 15:00:57
A ladybro may be your true friend and may be not. She is the one that spend most time with you besides your family.
Tourism Festival opens 2013-10-02 17:31:37
Tourism Festival opens
Bilingual: Half of British pilots admit to falling asleep in cockpit - survey 2013-09-29 16:20:28
According to the British Airline Pilots' Association (BALPA), 56 percent of 500 commercial pilots admitted to being asleep while on the flight deck and, of those, nearly one in three said they had woken up to find their co-pilot also asleep.
Buzzword: character amnesia 2013-09-29 16:20:28
Chinese boffins say that character amnesia happens because most Chinese people use electronic input systems based on Pinyin, which translates Chinese characters into the Roman alphabet.
Coming soon: Life After Loss 2013-09-29 10:01:21
China's family-planning policy was implemented in 1979. It restricts urban couples from having more than one child. Through 2011, It had so far prevented more than 400 million births. Now, thirty years since it took effect, parents who have lost their only children to illness or an accident are physically too old to have another. These old people have to spend the rest of their lives without children. In China, families who have lost their only child are often called shidu families.
Bilingual: Salem man holds burglary suspect at gunpoint with help from his deaf dog 2013-09-27 15:31:06
A friendly English Springer Spaniel named Bonnie, who also happens to be deaf, is being praised by her owner for helping him catch a suspected intruder in their Salem home.
Buzzword: Staycation 2013-09-27 15:31:06
A staycation (or stay-cation, or stacation) is a neologism for a period of time in which an individual or family stays at home and relaxes at home or takes day trips from their home to area attractions.
