Four people, including a man who tried to sell his own sister, have been jailed for a total of nine years for their part in a sham marriage scam.
At an earlier hearing, 22-year-old Michael Wright from Swindon admitted trying to sell his own sister, who had learning difficulties, into a marriage with a Chinese immigrant.
Wright [...]
HANOI—Communist Vietnam was until recently a highly moralistic society in which men looked for virgins to marry and unmarried couples were fined for living together, but that now seems to be changing.
Traditionally, an unmarried woman who became pregnant could have her head shaved and smeared with lime as punishment in Vietnam’s traditional rural societies.
But increasingly, [...]
China’s state organs have set up a unique matchmaking website for single civil servants working in central ministries and commissions. The web address is www.ywqq.gov.cn . This platform is named Yang Wu Que Qiao 央务鹊桥, one of the key parts in “Sunny Government” project. The website provides “safe and reliable matchmaking service” for those single [...]
The Annual Paris Crillon Haute-Couture Debutantes Ball is held at the ultra-chic Le Crillon hotel, overlooking Paris’ Place de la Concorde. Aristocracy and celebrity girls from all over the world will be trussed up in high-end pret au porter or couture and “presented” to society on the arm of a dashing escort chosen for them [...]
Chinese netizens are discussing about the character of the year. There’s a website for people to submit and vote for their ideas:
http://www.nianduhanzi.com/ ( 年度汉字 )
“The Character of the year” first started in Japan in 1995 (named The Kanji of the year – 今年の漢字 Kotoshi no Kanji ). This year the game attracted great interest of [...]
29th, November, more than one million people took the national civil service exam to compete for 15000 jobs, the admission ratio approaches to 69:1. Exam results will be published on the official websites of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the State Administration of Civil Service in mid-January, and those who passed [...]
A violent house demolition case happened earlier this month in Chengdu, the house owner Tang Fuzhen, also a female Entrepreneur, committed self-immolation on the roof of her own house in 13th of November, many of her relatives were seriously injured by police and demolition workers. Her husband Hu Cangming was in Beijing to appeal for [...]
Statistics show that there were 188 serious coal mine accidents (with the death toll of 10 or more) in China from 2001 to 2004, an average of once every 4-7 days. The death toll of coal mine industry all over the world was 8000 in 2003 and Mainland China accounted for nearly 80% with 6434 [...]
