| Jia Pingwa honored with French Arts and Letters medal Posted: 22 Feb 2013 07:08 PM PST Noted Chinese writer Jia Pingwa must be in a good mood lately. He has just published a new novel. In addition, France awarded him the Order of Arts and Letters medal for his contributions to art and literature. |
| Lantern Festival celebrated in China Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:26 PM PST Besides eating sweet dumplings, people also celebrate Lantern festival with -- what else?-- lanterns, and dragon and lion dances. Different regions in China have their own special traditions. |
| Services job gains bring optimism - Biz Wire - February 21,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:10 AM PST |
| Kid love auto-chat - Media Watch - February 21st,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:45 AM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode The popularity of a new auto-chat app with Chinese students has sparked a debate about social skills under China's one-child policy and the craze for online networking tools. The "little yellow chick" app has attracted more than 2.2 million followers since it was launched in December on Renren, a social networking site. Anyone can post a message to which the "chick" will respond. Although the replies are generated by sophisticated software rather than human direction, young people have been amused by its humorous and frequently surprising answers. It has become the perfect conversation partner for many youngsters. It knows about Lady Gaga and can tell a boy to go get his love if he has a crush on a girl. It often humors its human partner by telling them they are the best-looking guy or girl in the world. It also gives young people a channel to vent their complaints about study pressure, emotional problems and their opinions about social events. Web users even asked it for solutions to Beijing's worsening air quality when China's capital city choked in dense smog in January. Under China's family-planning policy, most Chinese families only have one child, and Zhou believes this feeds into the success of the little yellow chick. The chick is not the first technology of its kind to draw attention. "Xiaotu," a robot-like auto-reply app on the website of Tsinghua University's library, went viral last year after users found it cute and <b>...</b> | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 02:56 | More in News & Politics |
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| 115 public holidays a year - China Take - February 21,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:26 AM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode When is a holiday not a holiday -- well, when it's a weekend possibly? Although that's not the case according to a document recently released by China's State Council. This paper dealt mainly with plans to encourage Chinese people to spend more time traveling to boost the domestic tourism industry. To this end the Council -- one of China's highest decision making bodies -- vowed to enforce the widely ignored law on statutory 'paid vacation' by 2020. According to Chinese law, companies must offer paid vacation to employees of more than one year's standing in addition to official holidays. But very few employers comply and so few Chinese workers are able to avail of paid leave. However another section of the document has surprised many in China's online community. They were astounded to find that -- according to the State Council's view of the world --they currently have 115 public holidays a year! And how did they come to that conclusion when the US for example has only ten or so? Well, by the simple method of defining weekends as pubic holidays. It then calculates 52 weeks year x 2 and adds these 104 days to the 11 official holidays. And there you are - magic -- a rather generous 115 days of holidays per year. | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:48 | More in News & Politics |
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| Clinton wealth - China Take - February 21,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:21 AM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode With Chinese government officials backpedalling on implementing rules to reveal their assets, net users here in China have been fascinated by disclosures made under US law by Clinton's wife - US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. According to these Bill Clinton made over $13 million from public speaking engagements in 2011 - an increase of 25% compared the year before. Meanwhile a CNN analysis of the records showed the former President has earned no less than $89 million from speeches since leaving the White House in January 2001 -- making him the richest living US president. At the same time a piece in the UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph - which has been translated and widely republished here in China -- claims that Barack Obama's personal wealth is only one eighth of that of Bill Clinton. This poster taking a double swipe at Chinese leaders, first over willingness to make transparent their wealth and secondly over the origins of that wealth. | Views: 0 0 ratings | | Time: 01:31 | More in News & Politics |
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| Mandiant hacking claims - China Take - February 21,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 21 Feb 2013 08:54 PM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode A tongue in cheek post from Ye Sheng Xi Mi Lu here following the news that a US cyber-security company has essentially accused the PLA - the Chinese military - of being behind a computer-hacking group. The company - Mandiant - says that the group has attacked more than 140 companies worldwide - mainly US ones - since 2006. And it adds the group is "likely government sponsored" and is similar "in its mission, capabilities, and resources" to a unit of China's People's Liberation Army. It even pinpointed the supposed headquarters of the unit - a white 12-story office building in the Pudong area of Shanghai. China's Ministry of Foreign affairs said making claims based on what it called "such rudimentary information" was irresponsible. It added that China itself has also suffered attacks from Internet hacking and most of these originated from US IP addresses. Meanwhile the Ministry of Defense denied the allegations and insisted China's military has never been involved in any hacking. Our poster from Guangdong doesn't make clear whose story he or she believes, but takes the opportunity to get in a dig about the China's tigh censorship of the Internet | Views: 7 0 ratings | | Time: 01:35 | More in News & Politics |
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| New blackberry products going to China - China Beat - February 21,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 21 Feb 2013 07:14 PM PST | One of those products that help the Chinese stay connected is the Blackberry. The Global Times is reporting from an unnamed source that BlackBerry is slated to launch new phones powered by its re-engineered mobile phone platform in the Chinese market sometime later this year. | Views: 2 0 ratings | | Time: 01:16 | More in News & Politics |
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| Gender disparities mean lonely hearts - China Price Watch - February 20,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 21 Feb 2013 01:16 AM PST | China's bachelors helped drive its growing housing market. Data suggests that 48% of the housing price rise ($8 trillion in property values across 35 major cities) is a function of the country's gender imbalance. But this stubbornly inflated housing market is a plight for both urban and rural areas even considered a potential source of political instability by the Chinese government. Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode | Views: 9 0 ratings | | Time: 05:36 | More in News & Politics |
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| Hong Kong- snow polo champs- Media Watch - February 19th,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 21 Feb 2013 01:11 AM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode In a match watched by dozens of people worldwide, Hong Kong's snow polo team trounced Argentina in the Snow Polo World Cup in Tianjin. The three-person Hong Kong team are legendary in the snow polo circuit, and have won every World Cup ever. (The event was started last year.) South China Morning Post chronicles the impressive legacy of snow polo in Hong Kong: Michael Wong did the Cantonese commentary for TVB Pearl during the Tianjin tournament. He said polo, let alone snow polo, was not actually played in Hong Kong so players practised and competed in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia or on the mainland. An impressive and distinguished legacy, reaching back almost twelve months. With the same three guys. And from a place that doesn't play the have snow! I was in Tianjin a couple weeks ago and saw the snow polo grounds. They had produced a lot of snow, and the grandstands were covered and heated. Very impressive! | Views: 3 0 ratings | | Time: 05:42 | More in News & Politics |
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| Mad for Mars - China Take - February 20,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:37 PM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode Last year a Dutch company called Mars One announced that it intended to send humans to the moon by 2023. The start up intends to fund the trip through sponsorships and a reality TV show which would follow the progress of the project through selection, training and the flight to Mars. However, to reduce costs, the trip would be one way with the four volunteers spending their rest lives in Mars. They would then be joined by two more space travellers each year in a bid to colonize the planet. The only requirement for volunteers was that they be more than 18 years old. Among the 37.000 applications received from all over the world, 450 Chinese citizens put their names forward for selection. So how do people on the streets of Beijing feel about their compatriots who want to give it all up for a life on the red planet? | Views: 11 0 ratings | | Time: 02:28 | More in News & Politics |
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| Hong Kong- snow polo champs- Media Watch - February 19th,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:01 PM PST | Go to www.bon.tv to watch the full episode In a match watched by dozens of people worldwide, Hong Kong's snow polo team trounced Argentina in the Snow Polo World Cup in Tianjin. The three-person Hong Kong team are legendary in the snow polo circuit, and have won every World Cup ever. (The event was started last year.) South China Morning Post chronicles the impressive legacy of snow polo in Hong Kong: Michael Wong did the Cantonese commentary for TVB Pearl during the Tianjin tournament. He said polo, let alone snow polo, was not actually played in Hong Kong so players practised and competed in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia or on the mainland. An impressive and distinguished legacy, reaching back almost twelve months. With the same three guys. And from a place that doesn't play the have snow! I was in Tianjin a couple weeks ago and saw the snow polo grounds. They had produced a lot of snow, and the grandstands were covered and heated. Very impressive! | Views: 4 0 ratings | | Time: 01:24 | More in News & Politics |
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| Whose to blame for N Korea? - China Take - February 20,2013 - BONTV China Posted: 20 Feb 2013 07:00 PM PST | Go to bon.tv to watch the full episode Chinese Foreign Ministry denial of media reports that suggested North Korea had informed Beijing that it plans to conduct more nuclear tests. Spokesperson Hong Lei said he was not aware of where the report originated. Hong also said the situation on the Korean Peninsula remains "sensitive and complicated," and China wants all concerned parties to exercise calm. While our poster seems worried by China's policy towards the North, China's state-owned news agency Xinhua apparently doesn't agree. It recently published an article defending China's North Korea policy against charges that it had failed. The piece blamed the US for the current friction, claiming that its sanctions and threats of force had resulted in North Korea further boosting its military strength. The piece went on to advise the United States to "engage in serious reflection over this situation." | Views: 1 0 ratings | | Time: 01:33 | More in News & Politics |
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| Macfarlane prepares for the Oscars Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:29 AM PST Red carpets and golden statues! Preparations for the Academy Awards are now rigorously underway! And the host of the night Seth MacFarlane is also getting ready. He?s also a first-time nominee for original song, with his comedy hit "Ted." |
| Traditional dumpling sweetens festival Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:22 AM PST It's that time of year for Chinese people around the world, the "Yuanxiao Festival" or Lantern Festival is an important part of the Chinese New Year. It marks the official end of celebrations. |
| Exclusive: Tom Cruise's remarkable career Posted: 22 Feb 2013 03:10 AM PST As we promised in the last edition, we are offering the longer version of an interview with Tom Cruise, one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood. Tom Cruise recently starred in and produced his latest hit "Jack Reacher". Let?s hear his perspective on movie making and on his impossibly successful career. |
| Ecological changes in the desert Posted: 22 Feb 2013 12:55 AM PST A group of scientists have been on an archeological expedition in the hinterland of the Taklamakan desert in northwest China?s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region since last week. |
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