tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86897062008-09-11T21:08:14.822+08:00"A window on the world from the new China as seen by its journalists of tomorrow." WOW is a blog and online news magazine produced by the students of the Journalism Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University.Editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16947227591481968718noreply@blogger.comBlogger218125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8689706.post-89996797647751684572007-05-21T23:50:00.000+08:002007-05-21T23:52:18.913+08:00

By April Zhang Two weeks before Christmas, in fashionable West London, I lost myself. To be more precise, it was thirty minutes prior to an England Premiership clash between Chelsea and Arsenal, in the middle of a packed Stanford Bridge square that I found myself lost. The square was an arena of warm – up round. People wore their positions, either blue or red. I had to detach from the clamor of

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By Zhao Xiao Chen The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness. We can’t predict what will happen the next minute, be it a prize or an accident; neither can we deny what life will impose on us, be it a fortune or a catastrophe. Painful as life may be, it is no excuse for exiting the stage of life. Life is a one – time shot and lost chance never returns. Everyone understands it but

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By Zhou De Athair ar Neamh, Dia linn Athair ar Neamh, Dia liom m'anam, mo chroí, mo ghlóir, moladh duit, a Dhia. Switching on the radio, I sit still. The haunting melody floats over, and permeates the cabana as blowing up a balloon. Along with the scattered paper, dog-eared dictionary and dozing flowers, I am bathed in the sound of nature, and overwhelmed by an unutterable power. The first time

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By April Zhang It's been some time since Chinese director Zhang Yi Mou came back from 79th Oscar Academy Awards empty-handed. His latest blockbuster Curse of the Golden Flower missed all awards, including the much-aspired best foreign picture. The film, again, told a story about treachery-crippled ancient Chinese court, full of intricate plot developments, familial obligations, martial arts

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By Lou Li The more William Lindesay thinks about it, the more he regards his story a perfect example of destiny. Lindesay, the first foreigner to make a traverse on foot along the whole length of Ming Dynasty Great Wall and the founder of International Friends of the Great Wall, came face to face with this destiny when he was still an 11-year-old boy in Britain, looking at the Great Wall on his

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By Li Mu Thirty years ago, straddling on the shoulders of his six-foot eldest brother and supported by his second brother, Wang Wenlan, then a photography enthusiast in his twenties, pressed the shutter of his Seagull 120 at a most memorable picture of his life. What he captured was an unusual moment in China's history, as critics later remarked. None of the people – thousands of them – in the

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By Song Mo and Wen Chihua(China Daily) Standing atop a stool clamped to a bicycle rack in her long white wedding gown, the giggling bride clasped her bouquet of white roses as her new husband pedalled frantically down Huayuan Road in Haidian District to the reception restaurant. "This is the way we like it. I will never regret this," Fan Xiaoping told The Beijing News. "It's really romantic to

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By Song Mo and Wen Chihua The automobile is fast becoming much more than just a mode of transport for modern Chinese youth and the numbers are staggering. There was a 15-per cent sales surge last year in the world's second-largest motor-vehicle market, with 5.9 million new cars sold to happy new drivers. The reasons for buying a car are personal rather than practical. "Getting a driving

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by Li Mu Su Zhiliang, chief editor of the new standard history textbook in Shanghai, told the press last Thursday that New York Times has failed to cover changes of made in the new history book without biased distortion, and the public censure following the translation of the report in state media is unfounded. He said to Southern Weekly, a major newspaper, that the September 1 cover story of

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by Li Mu and Wayne Xing Approval of several auto parts joint ventures that have majority control by foreign partners has been delayed, according to a recent report in zhongguo qiche bao (China Automotive News). While China is opening up its domestic auto parts sector to foreign investment as part of its WTO commitments, decision makers are becoming aware that multinational suppliers are

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By Shi Rui The Chinese government auctioned quotas for wild animal hunting for the first time to four mainland agencies on August 13 in Chengdu city, the capital of Sichuan province. There were hunting quotas for 289 wild animals of 14 species in the auction, all of them herbivores. Takin is the only species of the first category of national wildlife protection while all the other 13 kinds are

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By Wang Yan By 2020 Chinese universities will enroll 300,000 students from abroad, up from 140,000 in 2005, a Chinese educational official announced at a conference in Xinjiang recently and reported by the Xinhua News Agency. The report said the information was released by Mr. Cao Guoxing, director-general with the International Cooperation and Exchange Department of the Ministry of Education,

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By Wang Yan Over 50% of respondents expressed their confidence in finding life partners and friends through social networking sites, said Yeeyoo.com in its mainland net love and marriage research report on July 31th. "77.5% of the respondents agreed that social networking sites would create more chances for them to meet the opposite sex," said the report. Involving over 100 thousand people in

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By Shi Rui Mainland China will invest 155.4 billion yuan to improve flood control in the Huaihe River Basin in the next 20 years. The money mainly comes from the government. The 1991 flood and 2003 flood of Huaihe River caused a loss of 30 billion yuan each, and the Huaihe River Commission of Ministry of Water Resources of PRC shows its confidence in forming an effective flood control system in

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By Deng Jing, Li Xiaoshu and Zeng Yan The fingers of her bare wrinkled hands are stained red from the heavy bricks carried across the construction site for the No. 4 Beijing Olympic Subway line. Kong Yu, a 37-year-old migrant worker from rural China, piled them up beside a metal fence in the heat of the noontime sun amid swirls of gravel and dust. "Not tiring at all compared with farming,"

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By Shi Rui and Wang Yan 15 to 21-year-old girls had to work more than 14 hours a day, seven days a week, in an illegal Beijing suburban sweatshop and were paid only one fen per piece of garment. Overburdened workers in the sweatshop came to light when two journalists from the Beijing Morning Post pretended to be manual workers and stayed at one such sweatshop for 24 hours. During their stay,

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By Shi Rui and Wang Yan The contamination producer Beijing Coke Chemical Plant was officially off production on July 15th to serve the Green Olympics in 2008. According to Beijing Olympic Action Plan, preventing coal-burning pollution is one of the environment pollution control tasks. The city aims at "fully meeting the standard for hosting the Olympic Games" by 2008. The cease of production

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Saving Private Ryan Review by Li Jiajia "What the hell do we do now, sir?" the discombobulated grunt asks his equally nonplussed captain. The captain has lost most of his men in what appears certain to be a rout. As soon as their landing craft hit the beach, most of his troops are slaughtered before they can get out. A few jump into the sea only to be shot underwater while attempting to remove

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By Shi Rui and Wang Yan Mainland undergraduates have dismissed overly high salary expectations in job hunting. Most set their expectant monthly pay this year between 1000-2000 yuan, according to a survey on 2006 mainland undergraduate employment. Conducted by the School Department of Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China and the Peking University Public Policy Institute from

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By Yuan Yaowen With the whistle for the end of the match between France and Togo, the group match of the 2006 World cup got an end. All the sixteen strengths came out. The situation of the elimination match is as following. Within the sixteen teams, which will get the chance of holding the World Cup? As to the right half, though the black horse and six of the nine hot teams of this World Cup

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By Li Shuting World Cup 2006 fans should memorize June 18th. In the early morning of that day, dark horses changed the result that billions of people predicted. With Ghana beating the Czechs 2-0, and the later match between Italy and the United States ending in a draw, an unexpected situation was dramatically formed in Group E. Ghana, the black horse, who was beaten 2-0 by Italy several days

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By Yuan Yaowen Eighty three minutes had already passed. Neither of the two sides had a goal. Would this game end in a tie? Did England face the embarrassment of losing out so early in qualification for the 2006 World Cup? Now the ball came to David Beckham. He handed the ball to the right, looked around and then held for one second. Suddenly he passed the ball. The ball drew a beautiful curve

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By Shi Rui and Lin Lin For most of her life, Ms. Lee, a retired worker, has been riding the No.4 bus in Beijing. But last Monday, she got a surprise. The regular No. 4, faded and dented after years of use, had been replaced by a shiny new German-designed bus. The new bus had padded seats instead of bare plastic benches and it even smelled better. "The new buses are so much better than the old

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By Li Shuting Peacock is a maiden work of Gu Changwei, one of the greatest figures of the fifth generation Chinese moviemakers. Before this, he served as a cameraman for many years, enjoying successful cooperation with famous directors such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige. The story, consisting of three parts, is about the life of three children in a traditional Chinese family in the late 1970s.

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By Li Jiajia We are used to confining ourselves in the "concrete forests"; we seldom communicate with our neighbors; we always keep guard against strangers, for fear that they might be potential criminals. We are so possessed with distrust of the world we live in that television becomes our resort for reality--then true men shows find their way to the screen. I don't think the protagonist of

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