2008年7月20日
HANGZHOU WEEKLY
2008 June 30 (ISSUE 100)
 Expats Open Their Hearts and Wallets
The 8.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Southwest China on May 12 also jolted the collective conscience of China’s international community. “It doesn’t matter if you’re foreign or Chinese,” says Briton Jenny Niven, from the expat-oriented bookstore The Bookworm.
 Archaeologists: Chinese Porcelain Likely Originate
Chinese archaeologists said on April 25 their latest findings showed the country’s ancient porcelain likely originated in Deqing of Zhejiang Province. The sites of more than 30 ancient porcelain kilns from the Shang, Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou dynasties (1600 BC to 256 BC) were found in Deqing, indicating the area as the birthplace and center of the country’s ancient porcelain activities, archaeologists agreed in Deqing.

 To Be the Swatch of Wine
For Constant, it all began with a visit to China by the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The visit was part of a trade mission that Constant was a member of and as a participant in this special visit he had hoped to gain some insight into the Chinese market which he might take back to Europe. What he didn’t count on was how much he would love the country he was visiting and make the life changing decision to uproot and move here.
 
 Hangzhou International School
Hangzhou International School (HIS) opened in August 2002 with 15 students in Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 4, and currently serves over 300 students PS-12th grade. The school is proud to have its first graduating class in 2007. The school benefits from the cooperation of its sister schools of the International School Development Foundation (ISDF) who work together to standardize resources and programming. HIS is proud that it has been fully accredited by the Western Association of School and Colleges (WASC) in the United States.

This 16-page Hangzhou Weekly commemorates the 100th issue of the publication, which falls on June 30, 2008.  As the only weekly source for detailed local information in English, the newspaper was born to be a ‘narrator’ of the city of Hangzhou.  It endeavors to provide the Hangzhou’s expat community with something to read in a foreign language and get a feel for the city in which they are living. The newspaper is now over two years old and is still quite young; but it continues to serve as an important indicator of the enrichment and upgrading of the city’s media power and testifies to the determination of the city of Hangzhou to be more involved in modernization and globalization...

 

 

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