Thursday October 16, 2008
October 16th 2008 – A survey shows that the Chinese have lost much of their trust in milk, but will still drink it. This comes after four children died and thousands of others got sick from milk that had melamine in it. Melamine is put in milk so that it can be watered down but still pass quality tests. The heads of several milk companies got on television and said they were sorry.
Wednesday October 15, 2008
October 15th 2008 – the New York bank Merrill Lynch foresees strong growth in China despite banking troubles in the West. Because banks in China are largely controlled by the government, they stayed out of the sub-prime mortgage business that is destroying banks in the West. China will not be able to sell as much overseas as before, but there is enough demand within the country to keep growth at 8% or 9% a year. Not as fast as in past years, but still a strong rate of growth.
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Thursday December 13, 2007
December 13th 2007 – China remembers and mourns the Rape of Nanking, which began 70 years ago today. That was when Nanking, then the capital of China, fell to the Japanese. In the weeks that followed the Japanese army raped women and killed hundreds of thousands of people. It has helped to shape Chinese feelings about the Japanese.
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Saturday December 1, 2007
Zhang Zilin, Miss China, won Miss World 2007, beating out women from 105 other countries. Miss Angola came in second, Miss Mexico came in third. Two billion watched on television.
She and Miss Domincan Republic were favoured to win.
At 1.82 metres, she was the tallest woman there. She is a secretary from Beijing, who grew up in Hebei province.
Her country will host the Olympics next summer.
The women were rated on beauty, style, dress, physical fitness and niceness.
The beauty pageant took place in the Beauty Crown Theatre in Sanya, China on the island of Hainan.
Miss China’s philosophy: “Where there is a will there is a way.”
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Monday November 26, 2007
China has made public the first pictures of the moon sent back by Chang’e-1, a spacecraft now circling the moon.
Premier Wen Jiabao said, “The Chinese nation is fully able to stand tall among the world’s ranks of advanced nations.”
China first sent a man into space in 2003. In 2005 it sent two men for five days into space. It hopes to put men on the moon by 2024.
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