Commemorative Disney stamps to be issued in Hong Kong: A commemorative Disney stamp sheet is displayed at a preview ceremony at the Central Post Office in Hong Kong Sept. 8, 2005. Commemorative Disney stamps will be issued to coincide with the inauguration of the Disneyland on Sept. 12.
New Lee Middleton doll to help support Love Without Boundaries
Li Ying Comes Home is a toddler-sized doll with long black hair and brown eyes. She comes dressed in soft denim pants, a navy blue sweatshirt embroidered with an American flag, a white Oxford-style button-down blouse, and red and white sneakers. Inside her khaki knapsack is a Chinese traditional red satin dress with an Eastern inspired floral pattern, gold piping, and a mandarin collar. Li Ying Comes Home also features a freshwater pearl bracelet with a sterling silver charm that says “family.” With every Li Ying Comes Home doll, $5 will be donated to Love Without Boundaries and $5 will be donated to Newborns in Need.
(Thanks Brittany!)
UFO Enthusiasts Descend on Dalian for Conference: UFO (unidentified flying objects) enthusiasts gathered yesterday morning in Dalian, a port city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, for the 2005 World UFO Conference, the first time the event has been held in China.
Gender inequality serious in rural areas: Gender inequality still exists in China, especially in poverty-stricken rural areas, a recent national study on gender assessment learned.
Style-conscious China city flags down bald cabbies: In a bid to spruce up the city's image, authorities in China's Nanjing are banning taxi drivers who are bald, wear their hair too long, have moustaches or wear too much make-up, media said on Tuesday.
Disney Direct has a Mulan Halloween costume for sale.
Features shimmering accents and a Mulan cameo. Crown, fan, bag and shoes sold separately. Accessories Ages 3+.
(Thanks Mary from APC!)
Relief goods airlifted to hurricane-hit US: A plane carrying China's first batch of humanitarian aid to the United States for victims of Hurricane Katrina left here Wednesday afternoon. According to the information from the Ministry of Commerce, the relief goods include power generators, tents, bed sheets and child clothing.
Firms face moral dilemma in China: Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders has accused Yahoo of being "a police informant for the Chinese regime", following allegations that information supplied by the company helped jail a journalist.
As China changes, so does its image of US: As President Hu Jintao prepares to visit the US next week for the first time as China's leader, he represents a country whose popular understanding of America has become more diverse, yet whose negative impression of the US as a "bully" and "rival" continues to deepen, particularly among young people.
London and Beijing to exchange archaeological treasures: London and Beijing capped their status as Olympic cities yesterday by announcing an unprecedented exchange by loan of archaeological treasures over the next five years. This could lead to one or more of China's world-famous terracotta warriors going on show at the British Museum and to Chinese crowds having their first chance to see Egyptian mummies and cuneiform tablets from London.
Peach Girl: Poems for a Chinese Daughter
Unable to conceive a child, Siegel and Solonche adopted an abandoned Chinese baby and, both nearing 50, embarked on parentage. Each fills half this book with poems reacting to and meditating on their experience. Both focus intensely on the being and doings of Emily, their peach girl. Siegel sees China and all nature in the child, generally and particularly; one of her finest poems, "To the Chinese Mothers," conjures the emotions of all the Chinese mothers who have had to give up their children as well as of the one mother who had to give up this baby girl. Solonche characteristically wraps himself in the moments of Emily's and his interactions, often repeating a phrase within a poem as if it were a refrain in the song of fatherhood; when he looks beyond the present, it is the future rather than, like Siegel, the past that he envisions. Thanks to their poetic skill and emotional wisdom, Siegel and Solonche create not treacly inspiration but a testament of love and faith in humanity.
Adopting scrutiny: Minnesotans adopt more children from overseas per capita than any other state in the nation. The question is, why? Some adoption adoption scholars say Minnesotans should examine the trend.
Barber of Beijing cuts through a century of change: The barber of Houhai plies his trade the old way: a silver razor moves deliberately over the head, across the face, along the bridge of the nose, down the neck. He moves in unruffled concentration, as if time suspends for his work. In some ways, it does. Jing Qui is his name. He has cut hair in Beijing for 77 years, or "four dynasties," as he says, winking.
'Baby Tutor,' a Burgeoning Profession in China: "Baby Tutor," specializing in educating babies from their birth to three years old, is one of the new professions released by China's Ministry of Labor and Social Security.
