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Xiamen University, in the Southeast of China, is requiring law and business students to take golf lessons to prepare them for a business world where deals are made on the golf course.

"The People’s Alliance for Democracy (Pad) is a collection of rightwing activists, business people and former army chiefs…The movement wants to replace the country’s electoral democracy... Anyway, during the street fights one of the pro-government peasants, a 55 year old man, was killed. He was beaten to death with golf clubs." Golf clubs?

Language podcast, 40 free online lessons to learn mandarin Chinese. Vocabulary, grammar but also character writting.

Toxic waste dumped into a river in northeastern China caused a bubbly red slick, prompting alarmed residents to buy bottled water and a complaint by Russia that Beijing was too slow in issuing a warning, news reports said Thursday.

Some thoughts of mine on "angry expats", why they exist and why it's sometimes difficult to get past being overly critical about everything in China when you live here. If you are or was an expat (angry or not), would love to read your thoughts in the comments.

A copy of "Beijing Daily" that's already been read can produce four pencils, one ton of waste newspapers can produce 20,000 pencils. A privately owned science and technology company in Daxing District is successfully using waste newspapers to make pencils, producing altogether 33,000,000 paper-made pencils last year, saving the equivalent of 1500 cubic metres of wood.

This video should be mandatory viewing for NBC’s advertising and promotion department. If you can’t get inspiration from this, guys, hang it up. P.S. Could someone please tell me the name of this television show?

A ESWN translation of a well-written article by Lung Ying-tai regarding the near ousting of Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian. The story uses this event to give a picture of modern day democracy in Taiwan.

Opposition lawmakers yesterday proposed a legal amendment that English-language competency should be mandatory for all presidential aspirants.

Presidential hopefuls who fail to pass the intermediate level of General English Proficiency Test (GEPT) would be disqualified from running in the presidential election