In the statement, ETS provides 3 approaches for the test takers to make up: take the exam again for free on Nov. 20th, 2010 or on Jun. 11th, 2011; get a refund of the examination fee in full amount.

A testee named Wenjing Zhang, waiting for marks, says that she wants to apply postgraduate of American university and must present all information by the end of this year, however according to the fail-over approaches, she has to retake the exam in November. “I expected my marks to be over 1200 this time, I do not know if I’m to take it again, what the score would be?”

There is an opinion poll of retesting of GRE at the channel of Sina education, nearly 80% of net friends think the event influnces application of testees next year, 70% of net friends express “the impact is huge, all plans of application are disrupted”, opinion of “the impact is limited” and “the impact is fair to everyone” are each comprised of 10%.

Wenning Hu,  leading teacher of Foreign Department of Xi’an New Oriental School said that it was exceedingly rare for the marks of GRE to be invalidated on such a large scale.  Statistics show that nearly a thousand of testees are influenced in Xi’an.

Wenning Hu states that the invalidation of GRE marks is carried out across the whole Chinese mainland, maybe the American universities know this, and they may adopt some flexible ideas. “students can get in touch with universities, send other information first, and hand in transcripts at last.”

Although Citibank refuses to respond to the news, when journalists interview their branches of Guangzhou,  they find that personal loan of all banks is decreasing. In addition to reducing maximum loan and shortenning the term, most banks apply strict standards of fiduciary payment, a large portion to even all of the loan will get into the account of consumption merchant.

It is reported that it is really rare that China Banking Regulatory Commission inspects a particular banking sector. The increased control of risk also shows that the expansion of personal loan sector of foreign banks has caught the attention of China regulatory authorities.

June, 2010, Ms liu, who lives in Xi’an China, saw sth named “the cup for test of fetal gender” on website, the seller said：this is the newest product in America, which can test the gender of fetal accurately.

Spending ￥260,Ms liu bought one.

“Under the result of the test, I should have a girl, so I prepare all clothes for girls, on 27th September, I have a boy , 3.5Kilos more. However,this didn’t give me much negative influnce, what confused me most is that：Why is there still swindle like this, but nobody manages？”Ms liu said to the journalist.

When the journalist landed the website as Ms liu said , the seller answers questions warmly.

Ask：Is that legal for you to sell “the cup for test of fetal gender”？

Answer：China limits the test of fetal gender, but in other counties, there is no limit on this, we are general agent of the Asian-Pacific region, there is no illegal.

Ask：If the result of gender test is not accurate, what will you do？

Answer：If it’s not accurate, there must be sth wrong with your using method.

Shiqun Ma,Deputy Secretary-general of xi’an Consumer Associations said：If ther is no ratify of Health Administration or Family Planning Health Administration, nobody or no institution can test the gender of fetal.Foreign merchant, nomatter how to sell in China, must observe the law and system.”As the situation we master now, it’s suspected fraud.”Shiqun Ma suggests that consumers should not believe this easily.

These 2 telecommunication and mobile solution providers have long been in competition with each other. It was reported that in the campus of International Studies School of Xi’an, one of the major cities in western China, a few allegedly China Mobile salesmen were trying to buy in all China Telecom mobile phones from whoever purchased and had one. Some say it was intended as a strong response to the China Telecom‘s recent launch of a promotional campaign that gives a grand total of 1500 minutes mobile service free to those who switch to them from China Mobile.

China Telecom has now set out collecting evidence and proof of China Mobile‘s illegal moves for monopolistic advantage by unfair competition, paying bounties up to 100,000 CNY (approx. $15,000 USD) to those who submit them as a witness.

http://discovery.baidu.com

Just found it out from one of the side links down the bottom of the page at Baidu Encyclopedia. Searched for the news and it seemed that the site is just up for a week or so. Neither Google nor Baidu has indexed more than 50 pages of the site. And after navigating around for a while, there are only about hundreds of translated texts and discovery videos.

The entire site is also closely integrated with other online services of Baidu such as Q&A, Tieba and Baike. Discovery Communications published an announcement press release for this strategic cooperation at here.

For comparison, the average credit cards per American is 4.39 and that of Brazil is 0.95.

You can download the complete version of the report at the official PBC site or from here (Chinese).

A forum thread with no content but only a title gets 120,000 replies in less than 30 hours.

A lightning fast grassroots viral miracle that could only happen in China.

As the indisputable leader of MMORPG, World of Warcraft has been a 4-year online sensation attracting tens of millions of players worldwide, of which a large percent are addicted youth.

Jia Junpeng (or Junpeng Jia), an ordinary Chinese boy who seemed to be an addicted WoW player, whoever he actually is or whether it’s totally made up, has become known by the entire China Internet from an unknown quantity in just 30 hours, all because of a random nonsense thread posted at post.baidu.com.

As you can see from the screenshot above, the thread was started with merely a title: Jia Junpeng, your mum is waiting for you to come home for dinner. And that’s it. The thread content consists of only 2 letters, namely RT which simply means as the title suggests.

It was posted just one day ago on July 16th, but less than 30 hours later, it is now gaining 115,987 responses and still increasing at 3 per second. You can view the original thread at here. And almost every major online media in China is covering this viral miracle in news:

SINA: http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2009-07-17/040715966046s.shtml
SOHU: http://news.sohu.com/20090717/n265274914.shtml
QQ: http://news.qq.com/a/20090717/000232.htm
MOP: http://society.news.mop.com/qw/2009/0717/08312008542.shtml

Hemingway once wrote a thought provoking novel in just 6 words:

For sale: baby shoes, never used.

Few words, but a lot to imagine.

Lots of WoW players in China who cannot afford a home PC pays $0.2 per hour at Internet cafes to play the game. Jia Junpeng apparently appears to be one of them. Not only that but he loses himself in the game for so long that he forgets to go home to join the family dinner. His mum asks his brother or one of his friends where he’d be. His brother or friend unable to find him, figuring he must be playing the game from one of the cafes with access to the Internet and very possibly viewing the WoW message boards right now, decides to post a thread message at one of the most popular WoW forums in China, at Baidu Post.

It may have been like that or must be close but no one can be sure. That’s why it has attracted so much attention and imagination. Everyone seems to be rather interested in it and tries to come up with their own versions. Some even try to ridicule the thread and make it more hilarious by pretending to be Jia Junpeng’s mother, grandpa, uncle or sister-in-law. A marvelous short novel itself that tells a good story with so many suggestions in it:

1. WoW is incredibly successful in China.
2. He’s just one of 5 millions WoW players in China, an ordinary boy who’s addicted to that game. A common youth player that sympathizes with millions.
3. Internet Cafe is one of the pervading ways to play the game, because most of the junior players cannot afford a computer.
4. Whoever posted this message has a very good catch of Chinese humor or he was actually hoping to reach Jia Junpeng in this way and deliver the dinner message from his mum. He must have never thought that this would turn into a crazily successful press campaign for Jia Junpeng.
5. The mother is one of tens millions of common Chinese housewives who are doing their best to take good care of the family.
6. …

This story has now been completely popularized across the Chinese WoW community and it sure will be much more widely reported across the nation in the next few days when more and more media covers it. Many are currently trying to identify the person so named as Jia Junpeng and there are already several candidates that have been located across China.

Baidu.com

• It is the largest MP3 search engine around the globe. (http://mp3.baidu.com)
• It is the largest Chinese community encyclopedia, even bigger than all languages of wikipedia combined. (http://baike.baidu.com)
• It is the largest Chinese questions and answers community, with nearly 60 million questions answered. (http://zhidao.baidu.com)
• It is the largest Chinese forum. (http://tieba.baidu.com)
• … And lots more.

As of now, Baidu has approximately 119,000,000 pages indexed by Google, which makes it the Chinese site with the most pages indexed in Google.