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In this advanced read for sports lovers, we learn that Italy failed to qualify for the World Cup yet again.
This tragic story identifies the victims of the Lake Tahoe avalanche, which claimed the lives of eight people (with one still missing at time of writing), including six mothers from the San Francisco Bay Area who were out on a ski trip.
NASA is dusting off the lunar playbook and getting ready to send humans back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years! This article covers the nail-biting preparations for a historic rocket launch.
This lesson is kind of cool – and highly experimental. I took a very complicated and advanced article from Chinese media regarding state bank loans to a company called Bodun Electronics (博顿电子). Then I asked generative AI to re-write the article in the simplest possible language.
Think Earth’s resources will last forever? Think again! China just announced a major initiative to mine the moon and asteroids for rare metals and helium-3. This article explores how space mining might become humanity’s next frontier – and why it could be easier than digging really, really deep into our own planet.
Binge drinking, breakups and air travel don’t mix, people. HSK 6 and up.
This news story covers a new government initiative to help protect women from sexual harassment by providing special women-only taxis in the capital city Kuala Lumpur.
My heart goes out to the many who lost their family, friends or homes in Japan this week. This straightforward Chinese article reviews the Japanese death tolls in the recent earthquake.
Theft by the elderly is on the rise in Japan, reports China Youth Daily. While I usually classify news items as advanced reading, the words in this article are actually fairly easy – slightly complex sentence structure but not a whole lot of complex vocabulary, worth a shot for intermediate students.
If you’ve ever been to China during Spring Festival (Chinese New Year), you know how impossible it is to make travel plans or book tickets during that time, as the whole country prepares to make the journey back home to see family and friends.
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100 Killed in India Temple Stampede
A short news item from Beijing Youth Daily talks of the tragic January 14th stampede in a temple in India.
This very short blurb from Sina.com features an announcement by Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey that Twitter has now exceeded 200 Million users.