Tuesday, January 17, 2006

News

Bird flu conference opens in China amid pandemic warnings: A two-day international donors' meeting that aims to raise 1.5 billion dollars to help fight bird flu opened in Beijing amid warnings of a "great risk" of a global pandemic.

How hard is it to learn Chinese?: An independent school has become the first in the UK to make Mandarin Chinese compulsory for pupils, reflecting the growing importance of China on the world stage. But it's not an easy language to master.


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