Every year on 5 June, we celebrate World Environment Day — an occasion when people over the world come together to demonstrate their commitment to the protection of the environment.
With the theme, 2000 The Environment Millennium — time to Act, this year's celebrations take on a special significance. This is the first World Environment [...]
The moment the word of Beijing was uttered from the mouth of Juan Antonio Samaranch, the city, actually 1. 3 billion Chinese on this earth, was embraced by a feeling of exhilaration, and heartfelt gratitude for all the members who chose the city to host the 2008 great Games. When retiring President of the International [...]
China's tourist industry has made great headway since the reform and opening up in 1978 under the guidance of the Central Government and the Support of local governments at all levels. In 1986, the State Council put tourism into the national economic and social development plan. In 1992, the CPC Central Committee further defined tourism [...]
Chinese fishery official warned yesterday that the country's seafood resources could be seriously endangered unless prompt measures are taken.
He said certain species of fish face extinction if overfishing and pollution go unchecked.
Overfishing has resulted in depleted populations in the Bohai Sea and other coastal waters. ^T
The hair tails one of China's four favourite ocean delicacies [...]
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they were meant to be there, they serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson or help figure out whom you are or who you want to become. You never know who these people may be your roommate, neighbor, professor, long [...]
Tess was a precocious eight-year-old girl when she heard her Mom and Dad talking about her little brother, Andrew. All she knew was that he was very sick and they were completely out of money. Only a very costly surgery could save him now and it was looking like there was no-one to loan them [...]
Once upon a time1, there lived a woodman and his wife. They were very poor, and they lived in a cottage on the edge of a forest2. Every day, the woodman would set out early in the morning to chop down trees.-
As the woodman was travelling through the forest one day, he saw a fine [...]
As always when the weather was not unusual the Californian sun shone brightly down on the Superba-Llewellyn motion picture studio at Llewellyn City. Silence had gripped the great building except for the footsteps of some supervisor hurrying back to resume his supervis¬ing or the occasional howl from the writers' ghetto as some author with a [...]
In democratic countries any efforts to restrict the freedom of the press are rightly condemned. However, this freedom can easily be abused. Stories about people often attract far more public attention than political events. Though we may enjoy reading about the lives of others, it is extremely doubtful whether we would equally enjoy reading about [...]
On a summer's day, two poets, having shut up shop, went out into the country to collect copy, for their stock of this commodity was exhausted.
And they were careful to dress themselves carelessly: one put on a black collar and black-and-white checked trousers, and the other a cravat of raging scarlet, "for" they thought (though [...]
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