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[CHINA]”Beef noodle style” Market Economy
Price of beef noodle regulated in Lanzhou first time - no more than 2.5 Yuan
Source: China News Agency, this is a rough English translation from the original reporting.
Lanzhou City, China，July 3 - City's Price Control Administration has just passed a bylaw to regulate price of the beef noodles. The price of the beef noodle served in a big bowl（Approximately 150g) shall not be sold for more than 2.5 Yuan(NZ$ 0.4) and small bowl served noodle (approximately 100g) cannot have a more than 0.2 Yuan price difference from the big bowl one. Businesses who breached this rule will be severely prosecuted. Read more
2008 Beijing Olympics
Source: a Chinese blog 不许联想
One comment after the original blog states:
“I’m now bit worried about the safety of that iron fence because the theft will just take them all.”
Another comment:
“I don’t think there is a theft dare to steal this one … the theft will definitely be convicted guilty of ‘threaten the integrity of International Olympics Community’ by Chinese court.”
Principles of economics, translated
A hilarious clip about basic principles of economics shown by my lecturer.
And here's a proper paper version:
http://www.improb.com/airchives/paperair/volume9/v9i2/mankiw.html
I still believe economics is a subject that you should learn from life, not class: it holds just too many things constant but in real life, people are in fact influenced by those 'many things'.
How economics explain this? "People are influenced by incentives."
[文摘]无题
(来源：网易新闻中心）
中华人民共和国十一大开国元帅：朱德、彭德怀、林彪、刘伯承、贺龙、陈毅、罗荣桓、徐向前、聂荣臻，叶剑英，超女。
一篇作文是怎样炼成的
许久不再接触中国的教育。
当我还在中国时，我就对自己所接受的教育有很多意见，而最大的一个则是这些老师都在教导我们如何虚情假意。从小时侯“为共产主义奋斗终生”开始，我们就被诱导，或逼迫说那些我们不知道含义，或者根本就不想说的话，做那些不想做的事。
我说这个原因是昨天我又收到了一位在国内的朋友的任务：帮她写作文，还好，就1000字而已。以前初中时星期一清晨花半小时完成的作文都可以被老师弄出来表扬一翻（虽然标题因为太匆忙写了两个别字），虽不能说是天分，但至少可以说是得心应手的。 Read more
New Zealand Dictionary 2006
The new one just released few days ago.
