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Avoid Taxi with BX in Plate Number Can you guide me as to how to register my taxi under a known company.Thanks |
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Some Hot Keywords in Google I have created new web only 1 year.I'd like to increase traffic,meanwhile my work is web designer and progrmmer. Hoping getting some business on web. My web is located in china. who can tell me some useful method. thanks, richard |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products >I don't give a damn about commie CCP supports boycott or not. I am not even from China mainland. It is >Chinese worldwide who will boycott you ! Please do boycott us. The CCP is strongly encouraging it, and it's a sign France is right (just like we were right on Iraq). Beside, all the nationalistic feelings that go with it are stupid, don't you think? Looks like one more attempt to mask the real questions : why did they jail a non-violent political opponent for 6 years? why shouldn't people be allowed to say "free Tibet" if they want to? (no matter if they're "right" or "wrong", they should be allowed to express themselves). Without freedom of speech, no freedom of the press, no opponents - handy for the government hey? they can just do whatever they want. Personally, I am very happy that anyone can say very bad things about France. As Voltaire said, "I may disagree with you what you say, but I will fight up to death so that you have the right to say it". >Try to take your freedom? > >Did the Olympic touch want to take your freedom??? > >Did the disabled athelets want to take your freedom??? > >Or you violently revolted to take their freedom??? Media attention is the preferred means of the people to express their point of view. No media means nobody will hear you. That may look stupid, but that's how things work in a country with freedom of speech and freedom of press. But you can close the TV if you don't want to see that. >Since you revolt maniacs love freedom so much, why don't you revolt against your Sarkozy? cuz he has >been sending more troops to foreign land for mass killing, which violently oppresses Muslin's freedom??? Every week there are protests. Eventually politicians are forced to change their politics. The protesters are NOT put in jail; and so can act freely. This is the main difference. As you see, you're not far of that - just try to get (really) independant newspapers; free association of people; free election, and that's it! So when will you revolt? |
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Friends Started to Boycott French Products It is an honor for us that the dictatorial government of China supports a boycott of our goods. For your information, the word "French" comes from the "francs" which means "men who are free". We will revolt against anyone who wants to take us that freedom. And we support freedom of thoughs and opinions everywhere, like the right to say "free Corsica" or to show a Corsican flag. |
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Reading/Writing Chinese in Windows XP i came across this kind of said-to-be chinese which i can't read even though i've already had the chinese language pack installed and can read chinese newspapers and websites on the internet. can i ask what is this and how can i read it? thanks. [quote] ------------------------------------------------------- ●馬賽克工具 GMask version 1.70 操作說明書 ('00 4/3) ------------------------------------------------------- 無安裝程式。請各自將解開後之 GMASK.EXE 放置到桌面或開始 選單上來使用。 本軟體支援以下之馬賽克處理。 縱．橫之毛玻璃樣處理。 正負片反轉。 XOR 0x80 處理。 RGB值更換。 上下．左右之畫像反轉。 MEKO馬賽克互換處理。(五十嵐 洋二先生作) WIN馬賽克互換處理。(外村 高章先生作) FL馬賽克互換處理。(Ｇenesis 先生作) Q0馬賽克互換處理。(ゑヘゑヘ 先生作) CP馬賽克互換處理。(內野先生和Ｇenesis 先生作) 動作環境 Windows 95/98/ NT4.0 日文版。B [unquote] |
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Personal Income Tax in China Any one can help me to calculate the gross salaries for workers. I made a mistake by calculating from the net salary the insurances, social personal income tax etc. A: 3000 Rmb b: 3300Rmb c: 5500 D: 7000 |
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Webcam+Windows Media+GPRS+SmartPhone=? Dear Sir, I have purchased china mobile in that i can use that one as webcam. So i would like to connect with my PC to chat through yahoo to my family. Please advise me to download drivers for the same. REGARDS RICHARD |
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Vanke is a Good Real Estate Company What suggestions does anyone have as to renting or purchasing a condo in Sichuan Province, e.g. Chengdu or Luzhou? |
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Reading/Writing Chinese in Windows XP I would like to be able to read Chinese Emails to me (in English) AND THEN maybe learn to reply with some sort of a converter from English to Chinese eventually Americans are going to need to learn some Chinese and Spanish too thanks for any help; any help must be presented to me at an elementary/simple level or it will appear as Greek to me! Richard |
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Chinese Stock Market is Crazy I think the China Stock Market will collapse very soon. |
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Cheap Way to Visit Hangzhou Those on a really tight budget - please be aware that practically everything bought from the kiosks along the lakeside is considerably more expensive than normal prices. For drinks, the price increase is in the region of 100% - a bottle of mineral water goes for 3RMB rather than the more usual 1.5RMB elsewhere. If on Hubin Rd, along the lakeside, buy your refreshments at the convenience store near the Hyatt - the prices there aren't inflated. |
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Beijing 2008 Olympic Emblem Unvieled hi, i was living in china for 16 years. thus, i can speak chinese fluently. also, i'm living in canada now. and i'm sure i also have good english skills. i really am interesting about the volunteer job in beijing 2008, plz tell me how to make it.....thx.... |
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PVG: Buses to Hangzhou, Suzhou... I want to have a one day trip from Shanghai Hongqiao to Suzhou in July 2. What is the best routine and the most cost effecient way for the travel. Thanks in advance. |
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Cheap and Clean Motel in Shanghai - Motel168 I stayed in Motel 168 of Luizhou rd on 22nd of Feb on my last night of Shanghai. It is close to Tanjing rd which are full of shopping plazas, banks and fast food outlets. It is clean, comfortable and efficient. I think this hotel was owned by europeran muti nationaly company. My impression was downstair clean toilet for someone who can not wait for reaching upstair. If someone wish to live close to airport, it is not right choice. It is very far from Pudong Intl airport. One and half hour need to go to airport with taxi. It has own bar and restaurant so it is convenient to buy beer and meals. Reception and Cashier staff are friendly. Toilet is western design push button and water flow is smooth too. Motel 168 chain hotels are marketed for budget travellers and backpackers. Not for business class and luxury minded travellers. I like this hotel because price is reasonably cheap and having western look. I wish I have more nights to stay at this cute hotel. |
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National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) Very good job! Only one tip: The distribution of score of national entrance examination should not be the uniform but the gaussian. Your range would be more higher :-) |
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Hotmail Blocked in China I'm using MSN7.5 and the mail icon ( your Option 2 ) definitely doesn't work. Your direct link may work but it brought up a Chinese language page, and I don't read Chinese yet ! I've been using a proxy server to access my Hotmail these past few days. Thanks for your suggestions anyway - good work ! |
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Cold Winter Comes I'm from shanghai too but now living in Southern California. There's no real winter here, and we have around 20 c all year around. After many years, you kind of miss the cold winter in Shanghai.. |
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I Watched Super Girl, Finally Can anybody tell me the time of the show every Friday on the TV? Many thanks. |
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Typhoon Hit Shanghai Wendy was Lucky, her flight was almost on time arrival anyway. However for me, the airline took me to Nanchang after 30 min. hovering above Hong Qiao airport, I stayed in Nanchang two nights on Friday and Saturday. What makes me confusion is why the airline made a such decision to take off from Ningbo at 9:00pm where the typhoon is landing. |
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Where to Study Chinese, Beijing or Shanghai? Hi everyone, I am currently living in Shanghai and have just finished one term of full-time Putongua program at Shanghai Jiaotong. I don't know if my comments will help anyone in particular but here they are : Where to study?: Putonghua is putonghua after all. It is spoken by everyone in China. Only the accent in which it is spoken will be different (although quite a few "putonghua-nized" regional words do crop up where it is spoken). Certainly, the Beijing Putonghua is considered the standard, but they tend to add a strong "R" suffix/ending to many words which, for example, many Shanghainese consider distasteful and often associate it with being a country bumpkin. You have to realize that Shanghainese consider themselves to be the most cosmopolitan in China and, from my experience, rightfully so. They are the trendsetters of China. So, basically, it really should depend on what you are going to do or want to do after you have studied the language. For example, as a person with extensive financial background, my rationale for choosing Shanghai was that I believe Shanghai will be the commercial and financial capital of China and, perhaps, will surpass Tokyo as the financial center of Asia within 5 years. I think Shanghai will be like what New York City is to the US. (Beijing will be what Washington D.C. is to the US - i.e. a major political center.) If you are going back to your home country and deal mostly with companies or government agencies in Beijing, then you should go to Beijing to study. You should also go to Beijing to study if you plan to live and work there after language training. If your interest lies in the fields of finance (banking, insurance, etc.) or commerce (trading, manufacturing, marketing, etc.) and eventually wish to work in those fields in China or with China, then Shanghai will be a better bet. In either case, you will learn not only the language but also the "environment" of each respective city. When you meet in your home country a business prospect from, say, Shanghai, it would be a plus to be able to say that you studied at Jiatong (or Tongji or Fudan or whatever) and that you lived on Huai Hai Lu or in Pudong near the Carrefour supermarket. It personalizes the situation and should help to build rapport with that prospect. I hope I am getting my point across here. Which school to study at?: Since I live in Shanghai, I can only comment about my experience in Shanghai. As I mentioned, I just finished one term (elementary level) at Jiatong. I was not happy with it. I thought the program was not coordinated. Let me explain. There are three elements to the program: Jingdu (reading comprehension/ grammar), Tingli (listening) and Kouyu (speaking). Ideally, the three elements should be coordinated so that the new words, expressions and grammar learned in the Jingdu class (the backbone class) are listened to in "actual action" in the Tingli class and, then, their use practiced in the Kouyu class. The best approach in any language acquisition is to learn the pattern of usage and then reinforce it by constant repetition. You heard of "practice makes perfect," right? At Jiaotong, each part had a separate textbook taught by a separate teacher that/who did not coordinate with each other. Therefore, it was difficult to get reinforcement of what we learned in the Jingdu class in terms of listening and speaking. Oftentimes, we would come across grammar or usage in the Kouyu class that we had not learned in the Jingdu class. The problem is that since the Kouyu class focuses on speaking, the instructor did not explain the grammar or the usage in detail. For me, this was not acceptable. I made my feelings known to two instructors, who promised they will talk to the program supervisor. To date, I have not heard anything from the program supervisor. To me, language instruction, or for that matter education, is a business. I am therefore the consumer of the university's product. If a customer files a legitimate complaint and the product offeror does not respond to that, then, to me, it is a sign of very poor customer service. I have to conclude that customer satisfaction is very low on their priority list. My guess is that Jiatong may be more interested in making money than providing a quality language training program. It is really too bad because they are considered to be the second best university (not in language training but overall) in Shanghai after Fudan U. Because of all this, I am now considering the Putonghua program at Tongji U's International School JBC. They seem to have smaller classes (6-10) compared to Jiaotong's. In my class there were 15 although towards the end only about 8 showed up for classes. Does it say anything about the class itself, I wonder? One other point about the class itself. I don't know whether it is important for folks out there considering Chinese classes, but please bear in mind that up to 65% of the students in your class will be Koreans and up to 30% will be Japanese. The remainder are the students from other countries, including Europe, the USA, and the other Asian countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, India, etc.) For example, I was the only non-Asian in my class of 15. Granted, Jiaotong did have a class comprising Europeans and Americans only, but the unfortunate thing about this class was that everything was taught using pinyin only and not Chinese characters. So, many of you from Europe or the US should be prepared for a heavy dose of Korean and Japanese being spoken at the school. Hopefully, you will be able to find a few from your respective countries so that you will not feel too homesick. The factor of commuting: One other factor that was important to me was commuting. I originally thought of going to Fudan U., but decided not to because of its location. It was very inconvenient to go to from where I lived (I would have had to take a bus which I didn't want to) and I did not particularly like the dreary environment around the school. I chose Jiatong because I could hop on the great subway system here and get there very smoothly. Also, the Xujiahui area in which Jiatong is located is quite nice. It has 4 department stores, lots of restaurants of all types, and even the ubiquitous Starbucks, near the campus. Althoug the main campus of Tongji U is located nearer to Fudan and also somewhat inconvenient to get to, Tongji's JBC is located nearer to Jiaotong and more convenient to commute to via the subway system. Also, the nice drinking holes on Hengshan Lu are very near Jiaotong and Tongji's JBC for those who like to go pubbing. I don't know whether my comments were helpful, but I would like all of you who are considering to learn Putonghua, whether in Beijing or Shanghai or somewhere else here, to look at all angles, present and future, to make your final decision. Shanghai Richard |
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I am in Washington, D.C Jian Shuo, did you know your blog is named in the New York Times today, and you are quoted? You are famous!! I just wrote up the story on my blog. |
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Orange Harvest in my Garden Wang JianShuo, What did you end up buying in PuDong - a ground level apartment, or a townhouse or ?? Have you posted a photographic tour of the place? Thanks RM |
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Satellite Dishes Still Forbidden in China Imagine, a Chinese law that doesn't make sense! Whoever would have thought it possible? |
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Skiing in Shanghai How much does this skiing cost? In UK it is less than 100RMB per hour. Somehow I get the impression that the fun will be taken out of it by yet another Shanghai ripoff that thinks (wrongly) that Shanghai people will be able to afford it. Let me guess...300RMB per hour? |