KHOST Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit 2018 , Afghanistan, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified armed men shot dead a businessman and injured two others in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, police official Faizullah Ghairat said Thursday.
The incident took place at around 7 a.m. local time in Mardikhil area of the provincial capital Khost city, 150 km southeast of Kabul, where the trader and two of his family members were on their way to Khost city.
"The trader who owned a big butchery and a super store was killed and two of his family members were wounded in the attack," said the official to Xinhua.
The attackers made their good escape, he added.
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GUANGZHOU, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Asia's largest undergroundrailway station opened on Wednesday in the southern Chinese city ofShenzhen, launching high-speed rail service between Guangzhou andHong Kong.
The new line slashes travel time between Guangzhou and Hong Kongto half an hour.
The Futian High-speed Railway Station in downtown Shenzhen,Guangdong Province, covers a total area of 147,000 square meters,or about the size of 21 football fields.
Its three underground floors have seating for 3,000 passengers Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Mens ,according to Guangzhou Railway Corporation, which operates thestation.
The travel time between Guangzhou and Hong Kong takes about twohours by ordinary train. The high-speed track slashes the traveltime to half an hour. Residents in Shenzhen, which is adjacent toHong Kong, can reach Hong Kong in 15 minutes.
According to the train timetable, there will be 11 pairs ofhigh-speed trains between the Futian Station and Guangzhou SouthStation each day from Wednesday to Jan. 9. Another 12 round tripswill be added to the schedule every day starting Jan. 10.
Xue Weihe, a local railway official, said the daily passengerflow through the station is expected to be 10,000 on average duringthe initial period. Enditem
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By Xinhua writer Yang Shilong
NEW YORK Nike Air Vapormax Mens , July 18 (Xinhua) -- When Charles Laughlin was in college in the U.S. state of Minnesota about 30 years ago, Chinese was categorized along with Arabic, Swahili and Icelandic as a Less Commonly Taught Language" in the United States.
Now, the world's oldest written language is the second most commonly spoken non-English language, only after Spanish, in the United States, with over 2.1 million speakers, according to a latest survey by 247 Wall Str. Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit Womens , a widely-quoted Delaware company.
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"The most significant new aspect of this Chinese Fever, was that it went down to the level of primary and secondary education," said Laughlin, East Asian Studies and Department Chair, University of Virginia, in a recent interview via phone with Xinhua.
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Laughlin's latest Chinese article, titled "Jazz, education and American Culture" and under his Chinese name, Luo Fulin, is carried by the 4th edition of 2017 Hua Cheng, or Flower City Nike Air Vapormax Flyknit , one of the famous bi-monthly literary magazine in China.
Current figures reveal that over 200,000 students are actively studying Mandarin in the U.S. presently, with more expected to follow. The U.S.-China Strong Foundation said it aims to expand to 1 million the number of U.S. K-12 students learning Mandarin by 2020.
At the university level, Laughlin observed there was a large increase in numbers of U.S. students learning Chinese, but it has pulled back in the past four or five years.
"(It is) not because of a change of attitude, but I think maybe because some of the students were initially interested in taking Chinese... they might have overestimated their abilities to learn Chinese," he said.
"It is important to remember the increase at the university level is still much higher than it was 20 years ago, in another words Nike Air Vapormax , now Chinese, at most universities, is No. 3, sometimes No. 2 the most widely taken foreign language, after Spanish and French," Laughlin said. "This has never happened before, it was not the case when I was in the college."
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Learning Chinese in the U.S. took off around 1950s and 1960s and the language turned increasingly hot when China started its reform and opening-up policy in late 1970s.
"Around the end of 20th century, China's achievements are so incredible, and its global influence developed very fast... (these) raised the profile of Chinese language very high," he said.
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Mary Hoffman, a teacher from Brooklyn, New York City, once felt learning Chinese was so hard because she did not have native speakers to practise the tone language.
"I studied Spanish because I used to work in a Spanish neighborhood, and I carry on a basic conversation with the parents now about their job Cheap Air Vapormax , and I'm sure it's gonna take longer in Chinese, just because of the tones...So that's the challenge for Americans," Hoffman told Xinhua recently at the end of her first Chinese class at the China Institute in Lower Manhattan, New York City.
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