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1. tsamba (food in Tibet)
(Source: dict.cn)
Archive for September 1st, 2008
Chinese Conversation – lesson 186
Monday, September 1st, 2008凯文：你们是本地人吗？
小君：她是，但我只是个游客。
凯文：酷。
小君：想帮我在背后擦上防晒油吗？
凯文：好哇！那么，你此行都会待在欧胡岛啰？
小君：我还不确定。这位是莉莎，她有跟我提到去另一个岛的事。
凯文：大岛上有一些迷人的火山，但是可爱岛，老天……我听过一些关于那个地方的疯狂传说。
A man comes up to talk
Kevin: You two from around here?
Jun: She is, but I’m just a tourist.
Kevin: Cool.
Jun: Want to help me put some lotion on my back?
Kevin: Yeah! So, will you be in Oahu your whole trip?
Jun: I’m not sure yet. Lisa here said something about going to another island.
Kevin: The Big Island has some killer volcanoes, but Kauai, man…I’ve heard some crazy stories about that place.
(Source: wwenglish.com)
Beijing Olympic – Shanghai to increase kindergarten spaces amid Olympic baby boom
Monday, September 1st, 2008Shanghai plans to build 50 kindergartens by year-end to accommodate an expected baby boom this Olympic year, an educational official said on Monday.
About 170,000 babies are expected to be born this year, when the Olympic Games is held in Beijing, according to Xue Mingyang, the municipal educational committee director.
The figure will be higher than the 160,000 newborns last year, which was mainly driven by people’s superstitions that babies born in the Chinese Lunar Year of the pig are lucky.
Xue said those born in the 1980-1989 baby boom period have gradually reached child-bearing age, which would also challenge the city’s pre-school educational resources and capacity.
In just three years, the number of children between three to six years will reach 470,000, an increase of 57 percent compared to 2006, he predicted.
Most of the planned 50 kindergartens will be built in the suburbs, given to the trend that the mega-city’s population is spreading from the downtown to rural regions, according to Xue.
Shanghai, home to 18 million permanent residents, was expected to end a 15 year negative population growth (NPG) of registered residents this year.
The prediction was based on the city’s 2007 natural population growth rate of minus 0.01 percent. The rate was minus 0.12 percent in 2006.
The city first reported NPG in 1993.
(Source: en.beijing2008.cn)
