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working girl

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April 28th 2010
Just so you don’t think it’s all sightseeing and eating perhaps I should tell you what I am actually out here for ……….. My placement employer is the Beijing Volunteer Federation and they are in partnership with United Nations Volunteers on a project called Spring Shoots. This is a response to their success in using volunteers at the Beijing Olympics (400,000 of them! one thing China i ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more