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Gong's increasing wariness of spending and investing comes with good reason. Throughout this past year, bad investments in ventures and funds have cost the couple a hefty 50,000 yuan (roughly $7,300) - or about one-third of their annual income - something inconceivable in the popular mind when the economic outlook was much rosier...
...still overwhelming at this point, just to get the opportunity to meet other people involved in the process,” Haddad-Fonda said. He has taken both Mandarin and Arabic classes at the College and has conducted research in Beijing and Cairo under Professor Xiao Yuan Liu, then a visiting professor at Harvard. Explaining his research interests in oriental studies, Haddad-Fonda said that in order to understand current Sino-Arab affairs, a historical perspective is necessary, especially with regard to the 1950s, when China and the Middle-East first began to have closer contact with each other...
...activist groups including the Representatives of the Abductees Family Union and North Korean defectors, have reportedly been floated across the border into North Korea. The recent flyers implore North Koreans to fight against Kim Jong Il and condemn his regime. Activists have also been stuffing dollars and Chinese yuan into the balloons, ostensibly to help North Koreans seeking to defect through its border with China. "Of course they've responded negatively because we mentioned Kim Jong Il's health," says Choi...
...emphasized the cultural aspects of the study abroad programs by contrasting the hectic schedules of American students to the more carefully paced lifestyles of Scandanavian design students. “There is more time to reflect, to analyze things in much more detail,” he said. Xinran Yuan ’10, who participated in the pre-architecture program in Denmark the summer after her freshman year, said that the experience reinforced her interest in architecture. “Being able to see how Danish people design, respect design as a profession, and believe that design can change...
...have a good time.” Host auditions will be held this weekend and next, while contestant applications will be accepted throughout the year. “We’re looking for people who are single and are looking for soulmates,” said Sanyee Yuan ’12, a writer and publicist for the show, The time commitment for contestants is low, Coleman said. Filming will last about one hour and each episode, which will be posted online at HRTV’s Web site, will last ten to fifteen minutes. According to HRTV...