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Monday 18 January 2010

In the news this week...

I'm now getting the China Daily, an English language newspaper, delivered to me in Danfeng. Unfortunately, it's always about 3 days old when I get it so I don't use it particularly to find out news but it's very useful for finding out about Chinese culture, opinions and beliefs. Sometimes, the stories are frightening - like the dairy farmer who was executed when his polluted cows milk killed some babies - and sometimes it's hilarious, like this extract from last week's paper.

A shopping centre in Hebei is planning to build an exclusive car park, especially designed for women, with their preferences in mind. The Wanxiang Shopping Centre plans to design the facility with bigger parking spaces and women-friendly colour schemes such as pink and light purple. It also plans to employ specially trained female parking attendants to guide the women drivers into the parking spaces.
Wang Zheng, an executive at the shopping centre said the car park was designed keeping in mind a woman's "strong sense of colour and different sense of distance. The parking spaces are one metre wider than normal and will have signs that correspond more to women's needs," he said.

I love it!

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