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You registered for the HSK and start to feel nervous as the test is drawing nearer and nearer? Or you consider your Chinese acceptable, but you believe that you are a horrible test taker? Here are some advices and test taking strategies to succeed during the HSK. This post is not about the preparation work before the test, but rather the strategies to use during the test!

There is a new Chinese test for non-native speakers of Mandarin who are studying Mandarin.

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Even companies that sell products to “wash-out” evidence of drug use
often fail to offer information about how such substances can allow
cheating on a blood drug test. The following article doesn't question
the effectiveness of such substances, but it does question the ability
of a drug user to satisfy the specific requirements of the test

Another site with accurate information on your site's status behind the Great Firewall

WHAT'S COOL: A free quick test of your Chinese word recognition skills with the UK's Times Online animated flash cards. WHAT SUCKS: Does not provide pronunciation for any words.

The Xinhua website says this article by the Los Angeles Times sensationalises the anti-satellite test that China carried out in January 2007. I am not sure why - the article is quite moderate in tone and even reminds people that Taiwan is a rogue province.

South Korea and China have agreed to cooperate to prevent a possible nuclear test by North Korea amid increasing reports citing suspicious activity in the communist nation, Seoul's presidential security adviser said Friday.

Sanlu representative issues public apology & bows to consumers hurt by its melamine milk powder. Recent government test results show 22 brands contain melamine.

In a massive campaign that recalls the socialist engineering of an earlier era, the Chinese government has relocated some 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth of the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new "socialist villages," ordering them to build new housing largely at their own expense and without their consent.