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Two passengers throw coins at plane for luck
Two passengers delayed a flight from Jinan, Shandong province, for two hours on Sunday after they threw coins at the plane for good luck, according to the Beijing News. The two women were detained at Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport following the incident, forcing nearly 260 passengers to be evacuated from the jet bound for Chengdu, Sichuan province. Airport staff found that the two passengers threw coins out of the air bridge of Lucky Air flight 8L9616 as they were boarding. The security staff members later found two yuan coins under the bridge. Last month, Lucky Air sued a 28-year-old male passenger who tossed coins at a jetliner’s engine for a safe flight. Twice before, elderly Chinese travelers have been caught throwing coins into a plane’s engine for good luck. Both were spared prosecution because of their age.
Ke Jie, a Go player who has reached the ninth dan rank, has been admitted to Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was on a list of recommended elite athletes for admission into universities without examinations, according to China News Service. The 22-year-old is the youngest seven-time champion in the history of the game.
The China Institute in New York has launched an educational program on traditional Chinese music in partnership with the Bard College Conservatory of Music. The program, Music at China Institute, will offer classes on traditional instruments such as and
Founded in 1926, the China Institute is the oldest bicultural, nonprofit organization in the United States to focus exclusively on China.
Jin Xin, 29, restores books and manuscripts that are centuries old. Jin meticulously dampens and smooths wrinkled scraps of paper with a wet writing brush and then lovingly pieces them together with tweezers. She is currently restoring a book written during the reign of Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Jin is one of five staff members at the
Death of student sparks privacy concerns
Chinese internet users continue to pay their condolences to the 157 people who died in the Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday. Eight Chinese people were among the victims. As news outlets attempted to find more information about those who lost their lives, a debate on privacy was sparked on Sina Weibo. The death of a student passenger from Zhejiang province has intensified the debate. Sina Weibo’s operator has hidden her posts and closed several online users’ account for abuse, saying “Please respect the deceased and discuss the accident rationally”. guqin, erhu guzheng.
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