Big gap between rich and poor
Chinas wages increase and lead to a deep gap between rich-poor.
The China labour bulletin shows that wages increase very much over the past two decades. This leads to a very big gap between rich and poor people.
Of course the highest minimum wage is to be found at the coastal area just like Shenzen, Shanghai, Shangdon and so on.
Compared to other countries in Asia …………..
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What a shame
Four elderly petitioners from Henan took it all off and protested in front of the US Embassy in Beijing over the rights of their activist sons and daughters.
The nude petitioners were seen in front of the embassy around 10:00 a.m. with phrases such as “Corrupt officials in Henan are livestocks!“ written on their bodies. The demonstrators included 65-year-old Xing Jiaying, 66-year-old He Zeying, 73-year-old Tian Guirong and 68-year-old Zhang Fengmei, who were also holding placards reading simply “yuan” (grievance).
According to the protestors, their sons and daughters were human rights activists suffering from torture and mistreatment while under illegal detention. Their children voiced grievances in the form of letters or calls to the government, resulting in 18 years of illicit detention, one of the parents said.
What a shame for those old women to offer their naked bodies as last sign of desperation and powerlessness.
What sign of respect for life.
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Lowest suicide rate in the world
In 2002 the Lancet, a British medical journal, said there were 23.2 suicides per 100,000 people annually from 1995 to 1999. This year a report by a group of researchers from the University of Hong Kong found that had declined to an average annual rate of 9.8 per 100,000 for the years 2009-11, a 58% drop.
Paul Yip, director of the Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention at the University of Hong Kong and a co-author of the recent study, says no ……..
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Test stress leading cause of suicide
According to the Annual Report on China’s Education (2014), or the Blue Book of Education, released on Tuesday, most of the teenagers who killed themselves are in middle school, and they did so mainly because they could not bear the heavy pressure of the test-oriented education system. Read more……
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2014-05/14/content_17505294.htm
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A bite of Peking university
There is a saying in Germany about the living in good conditions which says: „Living like the king of France“.
Those who have been to China and having joined Chinese meals know that “one can eat like the Emperor of China”.
To eat in China, to enjoy the countless dishes, one can get a slide impression of what this saying “eating like the Emperor of China” means. …….
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Sitting is killing yourself
The health impact of sitting is a topic of hot discussion these days– The New York Times covered the topic last month–and for good reason. All along we’ve known that sitting all day isn’t great for you but emerging research indicates that it’s not just a poor alternative to spending your day hiking the Appalachian Trail, it actually alters our bodies and decreases our health and lifespan. Check out the full infographic below for more stats and Information.
http://www.howtogeek.com/93822/sitting-is-killing-you-infographic/
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The art of breathing as a challenge for the string musician
Singing and playing instriúments, especially as a string musician you are deeply connected with your breathing. There is no right or wrong breathing. You have to be in close contact with your own breathing. Ruth Phillips Shows exercises to explore your breathing, to explore your instrument, to be aware of the rhythm and to follow the change of expansion and contraction.
The better you explore the art of breathing the more touched the audience will listen to your music.
http://thestrad.com/latest/editorschoice/how-to-breathe-freely-when-playing-a-stringed-instrument
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Bound feet
The feet of little girls had been bound to improve their beauty.
In old China there was a century long tradition on this. Forbidden in 1912 it did not put an and to this behavior.
The mothers of the girls had endured foot-binding as well and knew what pain and torment they were putting their own child through. But they knew, to make their daughter acceptable to society, to give their daughters the best possible life, this is something they had to do, however heartbreaking it was. We all want to be accepted, we all want to be loved, we want our children to have the best possible opportunities.
A cruel way of manipulating and dominating women`s body language. You can read more about the interviews with some old Chinese women, who had endured this experience until nowadays. Impressing foto documents show the women`s beauty and the abused feet. The women`s faces and the described behavior are a convincing message on their own.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/06/04/photos-the-last-living-women-with-bound-feet/
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Gritty, emotional, smelly and dirty: new evidence supports Freud’s long-debunked theory that sex fuels our dreams.
In short, every 90 minutes during sleep, we enter the dangerous twilight zone called REM sleep. The reward centres of our brains are activated, and our sexual systems are turned on – yet our bodies are partially paralysed so we cannot move to take advantage of these activations. Instead, as key physiologic systems collapse, we are forced to watch these things we call dreams.
If you want to read more just have a look there:
http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/was-freud-right-about-dreams-all-along/
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Relationship between nightmares and a tight jaw
More and more people suffer from their tight jaw. One result causes teeth problems. So people visit a dentist `cause they are aware of these problems and not of the chronically tensed jaw. Mostly the dentists don`t know the reason for the teeth problems. So they call this syndrome “bruxisme”. People feel some kind of a respect towards such a diagnosis and follow the dentist`s indication for a while. But as there is no real change they stop.
By the way “bruxisme” only means teeth crunching. Using a Greek labeling the diagnosis sounds important. But ………..
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