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In flashy new talent contest "The Rap of China," participants vie for golden chains that spell "R!CH," but the show itself has received mixed reviews and even two "diss tracks." Why is that? Will hip hop music become more mainstream in China? RT要搬家喽!从7月开始,Round Table将在㊭鵝fм上回放我们的节目,主播名称是“China Plus”。赫扬、Ryan和牛牛都在那里等你哦!…
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Social media platforms such as Wechat have become a primary source for us to receive news. And now, parents are also raising and rearing kids following orders by some Wechat public accounts. A mother from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, refused to take her 1-year-old daughter to hospital after the baby caught a severe fever, simply because a Wechat publ…
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China’s mobile game sector is seeing considerable growth as online games become more and more popular among smartphone users. According to a new report from data tracker App Annie, Chinese companies are behind nine of the ten most lucrative mobile games in the Apple app store globally in terms of gaming revenue in May, a first-time dominance of the…
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The classic Japanese TV series “Shinya Shokudo,” or “Midnight Diner,” debuted its Chinese version this week. Unfortunately, the series has been deemed as an epic fail in the history of Chinese adaptation of foreign TV shows. According to Douban, China’s most cited entertainment rating website, it has received the lowest-ever viewer score for a tele…
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June the sixteenth marks the season finale of China's most popular online debate show Qi Pa Shuo (aka You Can, You Bibi), which brings together a group of diverse and vocal Chinese people. That includes Ma Jianyue, one of the thirty members of an all-girls idol group, who claimed that Qi Pa Shuo is her ONLY job opportunity for the entire year. Is t…
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Can you spell "sauerkraut" without looking? How about "Chihuahua," or perhaps "pneumonia?" If spelling those words trips you up, don't worry — you're not alone. Google released a map of the words residents of each state in the US tend to have the hardest time spelling. The project is in honor of the National Spelling Bee in May.…
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Today, 9.4 million Chinese high school students are sitting the country’s grueling two-day college entrance examination, also known as the Gaokao. It was the Chinese Literature exam for most of the places across the country this morning. The students are probably taking lunch or having a nap for a rest now. This year also marks the 40 years of anni…
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A woman living in Wuhan, Hubei Province has been asked by her father to sponsor 100 thousand Yuan so that her little brother can buy an apartment. The father said it’s the big sister’s responsibility to financially assistant the little brother. It must be done. Is it blatant favoritism towards the son? When do you stop supporting a sibling?…
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The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating Zong Zi (glutinous rice wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats. As we are celebrating the traditi…
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As living standards in China improve, our waistlines have expanded accordingly over the past few decades. The phenomenon poses serious threat to our health condition and increases the burden on China's healthcare system. At the same time, more kids are overweight, which becomes a rising concern over the country's future.…
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We’ll introduce a new segment of Round Table called “Round Table, Heart to Heart.” We will play questions from listeners and answer them on the live show. Have your question been chosen? You’ll need to listen to find out! If you have a question for us for the RT team, regarding the hosts, the show, society, life, send them in by a voice document to…
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Learning a foreign language opens us up to new experiences, work opportunities, and allows us to meet people we may never have otherwise. More than that, research has shown learning a language can also physically change brain structure, adjust perception or even change moral decisions. Would you sacrifice one person to save five? Such moral choices…
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Intranets on campus, governmental organizations, financial organizations and gas stations in one hundred and fifty countries have fallen victim to a ransomware named WannaCry. The spread of the virus slowed on Monday as no major organizations reported to have been impacted by the global cyberattack. The hackers behind the global cyberattack are sti…
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Imagine this: you are casually walking down the street of Sanlitun, a hip area in Beijing known for shopping and colorful nightlight. It is the place to see and be seen. A stranger with a camera stops you and tells you "congratulations! You are the next big star!" pay a fee and make that happen. You think: great, I've been discovered! Actually, it …
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Chinese students have all been asked to recite classic ancient poems and passages by our teachers. It is quite the challenge, as classic literature is written in archaic style of the Chinese language, which is difficult to understand and remember. Now a new generation of artists has revised an ancient poem "Song of the Lute Player" into a pop music…
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When Ms. Sun sat on the examination chair in a hospital in Shenyang, she had no idea her thigh would be pierced by a needle that was left there by a nurse accidentally. She demanded compensation worth 3 hundred thousand euros (2.27 million Yuan), but the hospital was only willing to pay 500 Yuan. Should the hospital pay more? What does the law say …
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Recently, People's Park in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province has banned dance off battles all together. The park authorities say the dance is too embarrassing for people to watch, and it makes park-goers uncomfortable. But the dancers seem to enjoy it. Who's embarrassed by it, the audience or the park of the city?…
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Love will make people do crazy things—but who would have known those things could also be so professional? A student at the University of Minnesota has gone viral for creating a detailed PowerPoint presentation to convince her crush to date her. Lizzy Fenton—who must have picked up some skills while studying genetics, cell biology, and development—…
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The plight of a couple whose only daughter insists on marrying a foreigner and staying abroad has gone viral on social media recently in China. The Chinese parents sold their house to support their daughter's study in the U.S. , but her decision of staying in the U.S. and marrying an American guy has deeply hurt the parent's feelings. The father re…
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When we just get used to seeing the army of sharing bikes lining side by side near the subway station, the application of sharing portable chargers is on the rise. Although its coverage is limited now, some still look forward to its promising future. So, what do we use sharing portable chargers? What are the advantages and disadvantages? What's the…
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