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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Carlos Tejada, Government Puts Focus on Illicit Tollbooths. China Real
Time, Oct 7, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/10/07
/government-puts-focus-on-illicit-tollbooths/
("Illegal tollbooths often begin as authorized toll-collecting stations that
local officials keep open well past the point at which they have met their
highway-funding purposes. Chinese regulations allow tolls to be collected
for a maximum of 15 years after a highway opens. A 2005 audit showed more
than 4,300 tollbooths in the country.")
(2) James T Areddy, Chinese Property Mogul Sings Blues. China Real Time,
Sept 28, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28
/soho-ceo-zhang-xin-chinese-property-mogul-sings-blues/
("Zhang Xin, the chief executive officer of Soho China Ltd., said Wednesday
that in her 17 years in the residential property business she hasn’t faced
such a tough market. * * * Referring to the higher ends of the market, where
Soho focuses, she said, 'you’re seeing no transactions on the residential
side.'”)
(3) Wynne Wang, China Breaks Cognac Auction Mark. China Real Time, Sept 28,
2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28
/china-breaks-cognac-auction-mark/
("A bottle of cognac fetched 1 million yuan (US$156,740) at a recent auction
in Shanghai, handily exceeding the EUR25,000 record set in France in 2009,
according to the Guinness Book of World Records. * * * The 1858 bottle from
the Cognac Croizet")
(4) World’s Fastest Elevator: In China, but Made in Japan. China Real Time,
Sept 28, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/28
/worlds-fastest-elevator-in-china-but-made-in-japan/
(Mitsubishi Electric Corp. will furnish Shanghai Tower with a trio of
elevators that "shoot[] up the skyscraper at a speed of 1,080 meters per
minute. The ear-popping speed squeaks past the elevators in Taipei 101,
which currently tout the record speed of 1,010 meters per minute, according
to Guinness World Records")
(5) Owen Fletcher, Transgender TV Show Judge Claims Government
Discrimination. China Real Time, Sept 23, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/23
/transgender-tv-show-judge-claims-government-discrimination/
Note:
(a) Jin Xing 金星
(b) Fei Tong Fan Xiang 非同凡响
(6) Rose Yu, State-Run Drug Maker Answers Outrage Over Opulent Palace. China
Real Time, Sept 12, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/09/12
/state-run-drug-maker-answers-outrage-over-opulent-palace/
Note:
(a) Harbin Pharmaceutical Group Sixth Pharm Factory 哈药集团制药六厂 (哈药
六厂)
www.hayaoliu.com.cn
(7) Sophie Friedman, Going Green in China. Scene, Sept 12, 2011.
http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/09/12
/going-green-in-china/
Note:
(a) The report was translated:
“裸家族”的度假风尚. Cuyoo.com 酷悠, undated.
http://www.cuyoo.com/home/portal.php?mod=view_both&aid=9394
(b) Grant HORSFIELD 高 天成 (a native of S Africa)
wife Delphine YIP 叶 凯欣
(c) Naked Home Village
(d) LEED stands for Leadership in Environmental Energy Design.
(e) A 54-page brochure:
naked Stables Private Reserve. Investors Report 投资者报告. May 2011.
http://www.nakedretreats.cn/wp-content
/uploads/2011/08/Investors-Report.pdf
(8) Lee Lawrence, A Mysterious Stranger in China. Wall Street Journal, Sept
3, 2011
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405
3111904332804576540533071105892.html
(“'Keep in mind that at the height of the Tang period, the population of
the imperial capital was about one million and, of these, at least a fourth
were probably foreigners,' Mr [Marco] Guglielminotti[, MAO’s curator of
East Asian art,] says")
Note:
(a) sidesaddle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidesaddle
The word sidesaddle can be a noun (refers to the special saddle; see Wiki)
or an adverb.
(b) aquiline (adj; Latin aquila eagle): "curving like an eagle's beak
aquiline nose>"
www.m-w.com
(9) Rose Yu, Tarnished Memories: Gold Olympic Good Luck Dolls Turn Rusty.
China Real Time, Aug 31, 2011
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/08/31
/china-tarnished-memories-gold-olympic-good-luck-dolls-turn-rusty/
("Buyers of limited-edition gold Fuwa dolls, the mascots of the 2008 Summer
Games, are saying their figurines, purchased from Bank of China Ltd., are
turning rusty — even though they were given certificates stating that the
dolls are made of 99.9% fine gold") |
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