| "Farewell My Concubine" to hit Shanghai Posted: 23 Jan 2013 04:28 PM PST "Farewell My Concubine" is a Peking Opera play. Out of its countless versions, a new one will presented to audiences soon. |
| Shanghai Museum: Example of China's new goal for more museums Posted: 23 Jan 2013 04:26 PM PST China has set a goal of having one museum for every 250,000 people in the country by 2020. It aims to build up more top-class facilities like the Shanghai Museum, which is now celebrating its 60th anniversary. |
| Palace Museum gets some time off Posted: 23 Jan 2013 04:25 PM PST The Forbidden City, or Palace Museum, is a must-see destination for those who come to the capital, receiving tens of thousands of visitors every day. |
| Mapuche culture gaining popularity in Chile Posted: 23 Jan 2013 04:24 PM PST Southern Chile is home to the Mapuche minority group. These days they make up only around 4% of Chile's population. But they are fiercely proud of their culture. |
| Potala Palace made 5A scenic spot Posted: 23 Jan 2013 04:23 PM PST The Potala Palace is a world famous tourist attraction in Lhasa, in Southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. |
| Forbes ranks top employers - Microblog Buzz - January 22,2013 -- BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:48 PM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com Follow us on Twitter | Views: 5 0 ratings | | Time: 05:40 | More in News & Politics |
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| China's inequality said to narrow - Biz Wire - January 22, 2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:21 PM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode Follow us on Weibo weibo.com or Twitter.com/ChinaBizWire China's income gap, which is said to have narrowed for the fourth straight year in 2012, according to the country's statistics chief. This is the first time in a more than a decade the government has released the politically sensitive figure. The nation's official Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, was 0.47 in 2012, down from 0.49 in 2008. Figures above 0.4, social scientists say, can mean there is potential for social unrest. The new generation of Communist Party leaders who were announced in November have spent much time talking about the need to narrow China's income gap and boost consumption as they try to pivot the world's second-biggest economy away from a dependence on exports and government investment. The World Bank said early last year that reducing inequality is one of the main challenges facing the nation. Li Shi, executive dean of Beijing Normal University's China Institute of Income Distribution and a government adviser, said that the income gap may have narrowed in recent years, but it's still too early to say that the narrowing is a trend. Li added that the official number is close to what others have calculated about China's income gap. The decline since 2008 contrasts with the US, where the income gap between rich and poor grew to the widest in more than 40 years in 2011. US Census Bureau data released in September showed the measurement rose to <b>...</b> | Views: 1 0 ratings | | Time: 02:47 | More in News & Politics |
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| Homemade dialysis - Media Watch - January 22,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:10 PM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode Three times a week, Hu Songwen sits on a small toilet in his home in a rural east China town and fires up his homemade dialysis machine. Hu, who has had kidney disease requiring dialysis for 20 years, built his own dialysis machine with medical equipment, such as a blood pump and plastic tubing. The crude device has sustained his life since he stopped going to the hospital 13 years ago. The machine removes waste products from his blood that aren't removed by his kidneys. Hu was a college junior when he was diagnosed in 1993. After 6 years of treatment, hefty hospital bills depleted his family's savings. "The cost for each home treatment is only 60 yuan (US$9.60), which is 12 percent of the hospital charge for dialysis," Hu said. He mixes potassium chloride, sodium chloride and sodium hydrogen carbonate into purified water to make dialysis fluid before undergoing the procedure. The single man lives with his 81-year-old mother in Qutang township of Jiangsu Province. Hu kept his home treatments a secret until July of last year, when he put a video of his procedure on the Internet. The footage became an online sensation after Hu's story was reported by the Southern Weekly last week. Hu said the video was not intended to showcase his invention, but to get more suitable treatment. Hu said his machine can be dangerous. Two of his friends died after building and using similar machines. Hu made the video after learning a nationwide rural <b>...</b> | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:55 | More in News & Politics |
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| Spring Festival exodus - cool sleeping poses - China Take - January 22,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 07:00 PM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode Well for those not lucky enough to get a sleeper OR own a "hard seat helper" here is a series of pictures showing just how inventive the Chinese train traveler can become when it comes to getting shuteye on the train. The series became popular after it was posted online recently in the run-up to that Spring Festival travel. And here we can see a couple of women taking advantage of empty seats beside them to make an impromptu bed -- something unlikely to happen when the travel rush gets underway in earnest. Then we have an inventive use of the window curtain -- no he hasn't decided to end it all, just keeping a drooping head comfortable through the night. And in this photo -- if you haven't got a pillow just use you companion -- or all seven of them. And even for those left without a seat there are ways and means of getting at least some rest -- the options are on top of the seats --if you've got good balance; under the seats if you're not to fussy about where you lay your head; and finally when there's no space even under the seats -- use your bags as mattresses and brave the cold in the connections corridor. | Views: 2 0 ratings | | Time: 01:28 | More in News & Politics |
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| China's R&D spending grows to 2% of GDP - China Beat - January 22,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 06:53 PM PST | The Ministry of Science and Technology released some year-end figures regarding the total spending on research and development. The country's push for a more innovation-driven economy has the R&D expenditures topping a trillion yuan. | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:17 | More in News & Politics |
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| More trouble for Maotai - China Price Watch - January 22,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Jan 2013 06:53 PM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode China's top luxury baijiu brand, Guizhou Maotai, has retracted attempts at price controls for fear of prosecution under China's anti-monopoly law. | Views: 1 0 ratings | | Time: 01:11 | More in News & Politics |
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