Reproductive Organs Simplified/Traditional: 生殖器 Pinyin： shēngzhíqì Brief: Sex education has recently become a trendy topic across China, and though school teachers and the education officials they answer to get an 'A' for effort, their application of the program seems to miss the mark. A photo essay in WantChinaTimes outlines the adventurous approach that has been …
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Justin Calderón is the founder of Mint Position, an SEO-focused content marketing agency that produces and ranks web content using journalistic-quality research. He is also a veteran journalist, and his byline has appeared in the BBC, CNN, Newsweek, Foreign Policy, GlobalPost, the Bangkok Post and more. Justin speaks Mandarin and Spanish.
How to interpret both sides of the looming US-China trade war
Is China weighing down its currency?/ Source - gulfnews.com Beijing and Washington, ever the odd couple, just can't seem to bring their mismatched, yet inextricably linked, relationship to a calm accord. Without proper mediation, the story of this duo could get kooky real soon. --- The US has long debated that China's currency, the …
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Malaysia: Asylum seekers protected from current fate of Burmese refugees
A short drama that follows Burmese refugee Roi Roi's search for a real home in Malaysia, shedding light on the human rights abuse of refugees displaced in the country. Well-informed report about human trafficking across the Malaysian-Thai border Last month, a rare blessing crept into the lives of an overlooked group resigned to the plight …
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Jakarta’s Eco-village, Pulau Macan
It's a balmy afternoon on a sun-drenched island in the world's largest archipelago, Indonesia. And as island life goes here, things are quiet. The only sounds that interrupt the peaceful swash of the turquoise tide are the crinkling of palm fronds in the wind and the occasional over-sized lizard tap dancing in the brush. At …
Reading Chinese: Army 军/軍
Army Simplified: 军 Traditional: 軍 Pinyin: jūn Brief: I, it must be said, am a sucker for propaganda. Especially the kind used today in China and Vietnam. There is just something about the uniformly stale, often poorly Photoshopped artwork that manages to make its message instantly nostalgic while remaining all together contemporary. A new and …
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