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Foreigners in Shanghai learn to make zongzi, a pyramid-shaped snack made of glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, on June 17, six days prior to the Dragon Boat Festival, a major traditional Chinese festival.
With a history of 2,000 years, the festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. During the festival, Chinese people usually prepare and eat zongzi and hold races of dragon boats. Other customs include hanging Chinese mugwort, an aromatic plant, and drinking realgar wine.
“China’s export of rare earth minerals has kept up with world demand for a long time. But this was realized at the price of a severely damaged environment and a great decrease in the reserves of nonrenewable resources.”
Gao Yunhu, an official with the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, commenting on a white paper issued on June 20 by China about its rare earth industry
“Today the House made history when both chambers of Congress officially and formally acknowledged the ugly and un-American nature of laws that targeted Chinese immigrants.”
U.S. Congresswoman Judy Chu, commenting on a resolution unanimously passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 18 that formally expresses regret for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other legislation that discriminated against people of Chinese origin in the United States
“We look forward to the everincreasing competitive power of the mainland. However, the mainland’s main attractions for Taiwan are not only competitiveness. We hope that friends from the mainland can treat Taiwan with more understanding and consideration.”
Hung Hsiu-chu, Vice Chairwoman of Taiwan’s Kuomintang Party, calling on establishing a more positive and benign development model for crossStraits ties at the Fourth Straits Forum in Xiamen, Fujian Province, on June 17
“There is no moral or economic justification for treating bus workers like second-class citizens. There is a clear precedent for rewarding bus workers for keeping London moving over the Olympics.”
Peter Kavanagh, an official of Britain’s largest union Unite, commenting on London bus drivers’possible strike in a dispute over extra payments for working during the capital’s summer Olympic Games