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In the last month of gestation, the mother’s body pumps at least 300 quarts of blood each day through the umbilical cord to the baby inside the placenta.
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This year the Chinese will puff away 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) cigarettes, an average of four sticks a day for each of the 1.3 billion people in the country.
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Perhaps one of the most bizarre examples of how confused “loyalty” is for the Chinese diaspora can be demonstrated by the work of a Chinese Canadian businessman, Michael Lo. A Hong Kong immigrant, Lo invested heavily in his private education empire in Vancouver, where he used to have a college and a university.
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In Canada, there is a 99% chance that you will not be a professional, you will not find employment, and you will not be in the place you feel you deserve.
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According to the Migration Policy Institute, a US-based think tank on international movement of people, there were an estimated 33 million ethnic Chinese living outside China, Taiwan and Hong Kong by early 2000.
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A brief overview of the South Asian diaspora in the US. The US is a nation born of transplants, but the term “minority” is beginning to seem inadequate for a range of non-natives and their descendents residing here today.
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To this day, few believe the official cause of death: cerebral edema caused by an allergic reaction to Equagesic, an anti-anxiety agent. To be precise, Lee died of a cerebral edema—that’s unequivocal.
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Gone and Almost Forgotten Myanmar's Muslim minority, the Rohingyas, are among the poorest and most forgotten of the troubled nation's refugees.
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A rundown of important dates and events in Nin Wang's troubled fairy tale life
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Two years ago, a friend decided to sell his resort in the middle of Beitou, a popular hot springs destination. Without too much deliberation, Amy Ho decided to buy it, adding it to her other ventures such as her health and beauty clinic and a line of cosmetics and health aids.
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According to a survey reported in Taiwan some months ago, only two per cent of all women in the island country think of themselves as physically attractive.
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She is often called the most beautiful Chinese woman alive. No doubt Zhang Ziyi, who considers herself a great beauty, will disagree, but if a poll is taken, there is a good chance Brigitte Lin Qingxia will walk away with the top prize.
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