Posted on May 8, 2008 by Brandon Zin
The photo on the right was extracted from an article published in the China Daily on 5 May 2008. It appears to be an ordinary photo taken from a school cafeteria showing a teacher having a lunch with his students. However, the older person in the photo is not an ordinary citizen of China, he is the Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao. It was taken when [...]
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Posted on April 27, 2008 by Brandon Zin
Some of the recent news of the world give me some foods (see the pun) for thoughts.
In Hong Kong prices of rice doubled in the month of April and residents emptied supermarket shelves for the grain.
In China, vegetable and meat prices drove inflation rates to double-digit in recent months, which prompted the People’s Bank of China to continue to increase its interest rate
In [...]
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