To Give Children an Edge, Au Pairs From China
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The last two years have seen an increase in the number of au pairs from China in the United States.
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Police in China, where most of the 1.3 billion people share just 100 surnames, are considering rules which would combine both parents' family names to prevent so much duplication, state media said on Tuesday.
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The Chinese can sometimes be a weird bunch. In summer, the men love pulling their T-shirts up to expose their mighty bellies and in winter, they enjoy stripping down to their swim trunks and jumping into frozen lakes. Women take the icy plunge too.
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Stolen then brainwashed and forced to fight, children around the world are being turned into cold-blooded killing machines. Warlords target children as recruits because of their very vulnerability, treating them as no more than "cannon fodder," one child advocate says.
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DAXING, China -- Sun Jiting spends his days locked behind metal bars in this military-run installation, put there by his parents. The 17-year-old high school student is not allowed to communicate with friends back home, and his only companions are psychologists, nurses and other patients. Each...
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Two families who adopted Chinese children and brought them to separate homes in Arizona and Alabama have discovered that the toddlers are siblings and almost certainly twins.
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A new GCSE in Chinese is being offered, following demand from schools and business.
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A group of children from Gypsy and Irish Traveller families are to urge the government to do more to help find suitable sites for them to live on.
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People who send money abroad to friends and relatives are being offered more reassurance.
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A radio show walks a thin line between useful education and societal condemnation, but its on-air hosts help China's teens make sense of sexuality. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Parents in China are concerned that new rules making dancing classes compulsory at school will lead to extra fees and heighten the risk of puppy love blossoming between their children, media reports said on Friday.
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MAIENFELD, SWITZERLAND Millions of American schoolchildren have adored her. For that matter, so have Russian, Japanese, French, and Mexican children.
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In Alaska, students are calling their teacher "lao shi." In Illinois, they're learning that one plus one equals "er." And in western Massachusetts, kindergarten students who can sing their ABCs will soon start honing Mandarin accents.
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A financial portal is born in China.
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PHUKET, Thailand -- There are pictures of young couples, like Canadians Michael Lang and Rubina Wong, and of small children, like a 4-year-old named Solitaire.
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Talking to youngsters in the language of text could prove an invaluable way of increasing their access to services.
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Text of report by Papua New Guinea newspaper The National website on 6 June  [by Zachery Per]  Young men and women from the Eastern Highlands Province will be able to work in China and learn the Chinese language.