School’s out for the summer, and on goes the TV.
Parents and experts concerned children are being regularly exposed to sexually suggestive advertisements have called for a ratings system and specific timeslots the ads can be shown.
Such scenes include young ladies modeling how underwear can make them look sexier, like special bras that enhance body shape under a summer dress.
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BEIJING - China’s president visited a flood-battered southern city on Sunday, expressing condolences and vowing to help the thousands affected as the death toll from rain-triggered floods, landslides and mud flows across the nation rose to 152 from this week alone.
 Chinese president Hu Jintao talks with flood-stricken residents in southwest China’s Chongqing on July 22, 2007. The death toll from rain-triggered floods, landslides, and mud flows across the nation rose to 152 from this week alone. [Xinhua] (more…) |
China is playing its part in the conservation of the world’s forests through the recycling of wastepaper, officials said yesterday in Beijing.
“China imports tons of wastepaper each year to be used for paper-making and paperboard products,” Zhu Lieke, deputy director of the State Forestry Administration, said.
The country also produces many packaging materials to be used at home and abroad.
In this way, China has made “a supreme” contribution to global timber conservation, Zhu said at a news conference.
Zhu appealed to the media to pay equal attention to China’s wastepaper processing, as it does to the country’s timber imports. 
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A thief with a long record was brought before the judge.
Judge: Have you ever stolen things?
Thief: Oh, now and then.
Judge: And where have you stolen these things?
Thief: Oh, here and there.
Judge: Right. Lock him up, officer.
Thief: Hey, when do I get out jail?
Judge: Oh, sooner or later.
Chief is at the wedding
A police stopped a motorist who was speeding on the street. “But officer,” the man said, “I can explain.”
”Just be quiet,” snapped the officer. “I’m going to put you in jail until the chief gets back.”
”But ,officer, I ….”
”I said to keep quiet! You are going to jail!”
A few hours later, the officer looked in on his prisoner and said, “You are lucky because the chief is at his daughter’s wedding. He’ll be in a good mood when he gets back.”
”Are you sure?” answered the man in the cell. “I’m the groom.”
Two women that are dog owners are arguing about which dog is smarter.
First Woman : “My dos is so smart, every morning he waits for the paper boy to come around and then he takes the newspaper and brings it to me.
Second Woman : “I know…”
First Woman : “How?”
Second Woman : “My dog told me.”
