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Year of the Not-So-Golden Pig — RYAN EDIT

I am always a bit behind in writing and posting ideas. This post would optimally have hit the blogsphere, sometime, say, in the months before an estimated 22 million Chinese women conceived in order to give birth to babies before the end of the year. But... ...full story at Lost Laowai

from Lost Laowai on Fri, Jul 06 2007

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23 Oct 07 visit In the year of the PIG!  »  YouTube videoLinn just turned 24, a big number for Chinese as it's 12x2. (her birth year is the year of the Pig, and every 12th year it's pig's year). We went to a "fight club" and we filmed the event with my gift to her, a camera (FujiFilm F30). Enjoy!
19 Jun 09 visit Program to help lower birth defects  »  People's Daily About 12 million rural Chinese women of child-bearing age will receive free folic acid supplements from the government this year to help prevent birth defects in their future babies, according to a public health project announced by the Ministry of Health...
11 Sep 09 visit Golden Week a golden time for travel industry  »  People's Daily Mainland tourists are expected to make the upcoming Golden Week truly golden. With a longer holiday this year, a record 200 million travelers are set to drop an estimated 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) on vacations during the week, said the China...
08 May 09 visit Children help give birth to new hope  »  People's Daily Wang Hua feels her heart break whenever she thinks about the 7-year-old daughter she lost in the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province last year. But she is determined to rebuild her life and family, and, like many brave women in the disaster-stricken...
16 Oct 08 visit Baby overload in Guangdong  »  People's Daily One million babies were born in Guangdong in the first nine months of the year, and the total is set to exceed 1.2 million by the end of December, the provincial population and family planning committee said yesterday. With more than 100 million...
14 Jul 09 visit Xigaze gathers 'golden ideas'  »  People's Daily In order to build Xigaze city into an advanced civilized city, local government has been gathering good ideas for constructing the city among all the residents since the middle of May this year. This activity aims at getting suggestions from the...

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