Despite the best efforts to curb prices, dissuade speculation, housing prices continue to soar in China's major cities.
The 4Q price increase in 70 of China's largest cities averaged 10.2%.
This figure is 2% higher than 3Q.
New apartments were up 11.4%, 2.4% higher than 3Q.
Second-hand units were up 9.8%, 2.2% higher than 3Q.
Rents were up 3.1%. Land […]
A Stock Express: Where is the Bottom Line?
China stocks moved down this week.
Shanghai Composite Index fell 354 points, 7.15 percent, from Monday. Shanghai-Shenzhen 300 Index fell 418 points, 8.29 percent.
147 stocks rose and 508 were down. 31 stocks lost 10 percent.
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44th Golden Horse Award Nominees - Fly Out Blue
The short FLY OUT BLUE was nominated to the 44th Golden Horse Awards Competition on the category of Best Short Film.
The 14-minute movie directed by Jack Shih was the winner of the Golden Horse in his category.
The animation short movie tells the story of an office worker […]
Home country boy, 17-year old Ian Thorpe was the star of the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
He won three gold medals - 400m freestyle in world record time.
Anchor on the 4×100m and 4×200m.
He won a silver in the 200m freestyle.
All, in front of the home crowd in a country that watches swim events like the U.S. watches […]
负 fu 荆 jing 请 qing 罪 zui Proffer a birch, ask for a flogging.
Two generals found themselves in competition after one was promoted and the other one wasn't.
One general did all he could do subvert promoted general while the promoted general showed great tolerance for "considering the nation over his personal feelings."
When the evil […]
Leave it to Japan to come up with a rent-a-pet system.
Pets can be rented by the day or hour at pet rental stores in Japan.
The ten most popular rental animals.
1. Dog 5,000 yen ($45)
2. Cat 5,000 yen ($45)
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The short movie SUMMER OF MAGIC was nominated to the 44th Golden Horse Awards competition on the category of Best Short Film.
Some movie details:
Director: Wang Cheng-Yang
Runtime: 30min
Format: 35mm
Plot:
A little boy, A-Hon, learns to play the piano. When he plays, he feels someone is around him. What does he do to make people realize […]
Asian visitors to Japan shop til they drop, according to results of a September 2007 shopping trends survey by the Japan Department Stores Association.
Backed up by the data, department stores, seeing dwindling sales to residents, are stepping up efforts to target foreign shoppers.
Tourists from China increased after the Japanese government […]
Michael Johnson scored a double success in the 200m and the 400m.
It was the first time in Olympic history.
His time of 19.32 in the 200m was a world record.
Divided in two - it's back to back 9.66 100m runs, meaning at 100m, he was still picking up speed.
The world record for the 100m - 9.74.
Michael […]
目 mu 不 bu 识 shi 丁 ding - doesn't even recognize the character ding.
Need a new metaphor to describe someone who is hopelessly stupid?
This is it. One horizontal stroke and one vertical stroke. That's it.
A rich man hired a scholar to teach his young and intellectually challenged son to read - something, anything - […]
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