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My speech for 2005 CCTV Cup English Speaking Contest.

My speech for last year's CCTV cup English Speaking Contest. Unluckily, I failed the university level and didn't get a chance to go to Beijing.

在风景如画的厦大校园, 我们邂逅了李竹润教授, 新华社高级编辑, 曾是北京2008奥运会申奥团语言专家. 在这里, 他把他丰富的人生经历向我们娓娓道来.

In a simply decorated apartment in the picturesque campus of Xiamen University, Li Zhurun, a guest professor, is talking to us about his life as both a journalist and a teacher of journalism. Time and again he says he has nothing spectacular to offer. "I'm a small potato," he says.

As the talk goes on, however, we find him increasingly fascinating because he has been leading a simple yet rich life, a life interesting though without much sensation.

As a journalist, Li has worked at the Xinhua ...

日前, 一旅居厦门的法国人在采访中和本刊记者聊起他在厦门就医的经历, 在众目睽睽之下宽衣打针让他颇为尴尬. 其实, 患者的隐私保护问题由来已久, 也一度引起了人们的广泛关注. 但究竟患者在医院就诊时有多少隐私权呢? 为此, 记者走访了厦门的一些医院, 并采访了一些外国友人, 他们介绍了国外在病人隐私权保护方面的一些有效措施, 希望他山之石可以攻玉.

Protection of a patient's right to privacy has been a hot issue nationwide for a long time, and the hospital, as a public sector institution, is closely connected to that debate.

A French knight

上月底, 法国驻广州领事馆总领事以及商务参赞一行人带着法国国家骑士勋章专程来到厦门, 将它颁发给了旅居厦门十年的法国商人--Roland Fath. 在十年里, 他为了中法贸易以及法国团体在福建地区的联系工作做出了杰出的贡献.
Roland Fath is French, an owner of a vibrant and enchanting lavender field and a hectare of luxuriant olive trees in Provence, a heaven widely recognized as one of the "one hundred places you should go in your life."

Over ten years ago, the businessman left his heaven for China, an unknown far-east country to him, and found Xiamen, a second heaven in his life. Since then his life consists of shuttling between the two heavens.

A French messenger and knight

Roland Fath once w...

A visionary artist's campaign

自1988年第一个"世界无烟日"确立以来, 今年的"世界无烟日"已经进入第十八个年头了. 十八年来, 这个反对吸烟、倡导健康的队伍正在不断壮大. 目前住在鼓浪屿上的美国人Bonnie Viethaler就是这群人中的先锋. 在今年的5月31日"世界无烟日"来临之际, 记者走进了鼓浪屿上幽静的别墅, 拜访了这位生活在我们周围的来自异国的斗士.

World No Tobacco Day, which now falls on May 31st each year, started in 1988 to draw the public's attention to the harms caused by smoking. Many people since then have devoted themselves to the battle against smoking. Bonnie Vierthaler is one of the leaders.

In Bonnie's eye, the general public, especially the younger generations, are fooled by the seemingly attractive and seductive to...

In front of the curve
Article & photos by Daisy

"我一边吃着饺子和包子, 一边研究老子和孔子. "美国人Andrew幽默的开场白足以显示他的睿智. 带着萌发于青葱时代的对中国文化的热爱, 老人从大洋彼岸来到中国. 十六年来, 他把精力和前沿思想带给了中国的环保和教育事业.

"I eat jiaozi (dumplings) and baozi (steamed stuffed bun), while I study Lao-Tse and Kongzi (Confucius)." Andrew Neal Braun chortled while giving this rhymed quip as his life profile.

五月是大学毕业生就业签约高峰期, 尽管就业形势日趋严峻, 不少人还是找到了满意的"婆家", 也有一部分学生选择了自主创业. 对于自主创业, 有的大学生跃跃欲试, 有的则冷眼旁观. 为了对此现象进行探讨, 笔者采访了一些选择自己创业的厦门大学毕业生.

Starting up a business tends to be a fashion among Chinese fresh graduates in recent years.

Inspired by American icons, like Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison and their business legends, starting up a business tends to be a fashion among Chinese fresh grads in recent years. In two-month's time, seniors will end their academia and join the work force. While his college classmates are annoyed by questions like whether to seek for a position as public servants in the government or hunt for a job in a corporate atmosphere in ...