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A reflection upon top ten cultural events in China in 2011

The 2011 Beijing Youth Innovation and Start-ups Fair was held in the Beijing World Art Museum from December 6 to 10.

A visit to 751 in Beijing: a park of design.

The 2011 Beijing Design Week & the First Beijing International Design Triennial is scheduled to take place in Beijing from September 26th to October 3rd. There will be a whole series of activities in design during the event in different places in Beijing. Designers from all over the world will participate.

Some recent jokes from the Courtyard Ally (胡同) columns of Beijing Daily (京华时报), submitted by readers as real life stories, translated and slightly re-adapted by SeeChina only.

Ever since reality TV shows such as American Idol have heralded an age of talent show competition, every now and then we are seeing commoners-turned superstars rising from obscurity. This influence has spread all the way across the Pacific Ocean to Asia with versions of different talent show contests of the west. On the premier [...]

Despite the differences in educational philosophies, Asia has been setting its higher education agenda according to American rules.

The long envisaged but still unconstructed Kra Canal, across the narrow part of the Kra Isthmus of Southern Thailand, is of great interest to China, Japan, other parts of East Asia, and of course Thailand itself. It is even often featured within the context of China-Singapore relationship, since the topic gets hot among chinese journalists [...]

By blending written vernacular with local dialects, homonyms, puns and exaggerated punctuation, the Chinese “netizens” have now turned out a universal mode of writing suited to all who are not contented with their major, profession or life in general (but who on earth is?).