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...million Purchase price at an online auction for the Chinese mobile-phone number (135) 8585 8585, which in the Shanghainese dialect sounds like "let me be rich, be rich, be rich, be rich, be rich...
...calls a sudden unscheduled halt in the middle of a dust-bowl plain and strides out to where she has spied a group of female nomads under a tent of sticks and black plastic. The women have only the faintest idea of who she is. Sonia cannot understand their dialect. And the photographers, trailing far behind, cannot hope to capture this briefest of off-guard moments. But away from the crowds and the press and the party meetings, as Sonia Gandhi stands alone in a field, hugging the poorest of India's poor, it is difficult to tell whose grin...
...years of martial law and brutally repressing political activists who later became the core of the now-ruling DPP, the KMT introduced democratic reforms in the 1990s. But Taiwanese used their new freedoms to demand bentuhua, which translates as "localization." Bentuhua means politicians bear Taiwanese lineage, speak the Taiwanese dialect, emphasize Taiwan's history in schools and promote Taiwanese culture. For many, bentuhua also means independence, or at least permanent separation from China. The KMT, which still draws heavily on support from mainlanders, can't please everybody. Says KMT adviser Wu Tung-yeh: "The old-line faction and the bentuhua...
...most widely used of South Africa's 11 official languages, but visitors are likely to encounter several regional tongues - Afrikaans in the Western Cape, Xhosa in the Eastern Cape, Zulu in KwaZulu-Natal, Sotho in the Free State - when traveling through the country. There's also a hybrid dialect called Fanagalo (do like this) that dates back to the days when black Africans were recruited for work in the white-owned Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments...
...office, a group of some 150 men milled around the entrance. They were not petitioners but officials from various provinces there to pick up any stragglers who had made it to the capital. Often, according to petitioners, the officials pretend to help the visitors, befriending them in a familiar dialect, before hauling them off to the railway station for a forced ride home. As for Li, chances are he was swept up in a similar fashion. He will probably be back before long. After all, he has traveled to Beijing 150 times and been thrown out on each occasion. What...