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According to the source they are males, many clients never found out the truth ;p

LOL...wait till they go use the bathroom! Lets see will he/she stand or sit? C'mon anybody would've notice the difference once they get to third base, unless they are who they are.
 

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HECHI, CHINA - JANUARY 10: A bus lies at the side of a ravine in flames following a traffic accident at Nandan county section of 210 national highway on January 10, 2012 in Hechi, China. A bus carrying 50 people collided with a truck and plunged 20 meters down a ravine in south China's Guangxi province on Tuesday morning, killing one and injuring another four.

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HECHI, CHINA - JANUARY 10: Rescuers attend to an injured man at a traffic accident site at Nandan county section of 210 national highway on January 10, 2012 in Hechi, China.

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Retired NBA basketball star and conservation advocate Yao Ming holds a panda during a ceremony for the release of six pandas in Panda Valley natural reserve in Dujiangyan city, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Six pandas bred in captivity wandered into the enclosed nature preserve in their native central China on Wednesday, a step toward eventually being reintroduced to the wild. (AP Photo)

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Chinese touts sell Apple IPhone 4S phones outside an official Apple store two days before their official Chinese launch, in Beijing on January 11, 2012. Apple recently announced that the latest version of its hot-selling iPhones will be released in China and 21 other countries on January 13. With the launch in China, iPhone 4S will now be available in over 90 countries.

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A panda chews bamboo in Panda Valley natural reserve in Dujiangyan city, in southwestern China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. Six pandas bred in captivity wandered into the enclosed nature preserve in their native central China on Wednesday, a step toward eventually being reintroduced to the wild. (AP Photo)

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Yao Jinnan of China performs on the beam during the women's qualification of the Artistic International Gymnastics London 2012 Olympic qualifier, a part of the London Prepares series of test events, at the North Greenwich Arena in London on January 11, 2012.

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SHANGHAI, CHINA - JANUARY 10: Hundreds of students apply for jobs during a job fair for graduates at Shanghai International Exhibition Center on January 10, 2012 in Shanghai, China. Over 8,200 job positions were provided by more than 480 firms in the fair.

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A Paper Sculpture entitled 'Girl' created by Chinese sculptor Li Hongbo displayed at Art Stage Singapore, an international contemporary art fair at the Marina Bay Sands Convention and Exhibition Centre on January 11, 2012. The fair is a major showcase of modern Asian works and draws buyers from around the world.

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A toy helicopter flies while being controlled by a tablet computer app via infra-red technology during the Hong Kong Toys and Games Fair January 10, 2012. The helicopter, equipped with a remote control camera, sells between $90 and US$100.

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A Chinese military band plays as delegates arrive to hear Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng speak at the opening of the 13th Shanghai Municipal People’s Congress in Shanghai on January 11, 2012. The SMPC convenes once a year to deliver the annual government work report and other government issues.

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People ride motorcycles among heavy fog in Liaocheng, east China's Shandong Province, Jan. 10, 2012. A heavy fog alert has been issued Tuesday morning in Tianjin Municipality and Hebei, Henan, Anhui and Shandong provinces, according to the National Meteorological Station. [Xinhua]
 

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A man kneels down and asks a woman to become his girlfriend during a dating activity on Jan 8 co-organized by Beijing's Chaoyang district federation of returned overseas Chinese and dating website Jiayuan.com. More than 150 Chinese who have returned from overseas took part in the activity. Liu Guanguan / China News Service

Lack of traditional women abroad spurs some to seek brides in China.

BEIJING - Leo Han (alias), a 30-year-old marketing analyst in Seattle, confesses that he is not much of a housekeeper.

"I never cooked before I came to the United States," Leo said.

"My mom never even let me touch the dishes when I was young. They wanted me to spend every second studying."

That's why Han says it is essential that any girl he marries knows how to cook and clean.

Now that Han has settled into a career as a senior marketing analyst for a world-renowned company, he is looking to marry, but like many overseas Chinese born on the mainland, he is finding it difficult to meet a match abroad.

"Women here like to do the same things as men do," Han joked. "They even blamed me for not being able to have a baby."

Han said he prefers a traditional woman like his mother.

"I would like to have a warm home like the one I remember from my childhood," he said. "When my dad came home from work, my mom already had food waiting for him."

Zhang Yu, the organizer of a dating group that includes about 80 singles, agreed that housekeeping ability was an essential characteristic for Chinese men who are looking for wives abroad.

He told China Daily that Chinese men abroad are usually busy with work and seek someone to take care of the household. However, in many countries, it is expected that the whole family shares the housework, he added.

Dong Sang, a 24-year-old student in Ibaraki-ken, Japan, said that more than 50 percent of Japanese women stay at home after they are married, and this trend has left a great impression on Chinese students studying there.

Liu Han, a fashion buyer at Louis Vuitton in Beijing, dismissed the notion that women should be solely responsible for the home: "It is time that all people are (considered to have been) created equal instead of all men."

Liu never cooks, and her boyfriend enjoys their lifestyle.

"We can hire someone to help us," Liu said. "They are more professional than I."

After going through two failed relationships since 2004, Leo started considering looking for a wife back in China.

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center in 2010, 40 percent of Asian female newlyweds married outside their race in 2008.

But according to the data, at least 80 percent of Asian males married an Asian female in the United States, and Chinese make up the largest portion of the Asian-American population.

Thus, Chinese brides are short in demand in the marriage market in the United States, which leads many Chinese men to hunt for wives the traditional way back in China: blind dates.

Traditionally, parents arranged the marriages of their children, and young couples could not even meet each other before the wedding.

Now, the tradition lives on, albeit in a different form. For instance, Leo Han started a series of blind dates over the Christmas holiday in the northeastern city Harbin. He plans to take a bride back to Seattle if the relationship is still going well after one year.

When asked how he will communicate to maintain his relationship, Leo said it will be easy with the Internet and other forms of modern communication.

"We can use Skype, or QQ," he laughed. "It would have been hard to imagine before."

Leo met a total of seven women introduced by family and friends.

"I don't need them to be super pretty," Leo said. "I expect them to pay more attention to family rather than socializing with other single men at parties."

However, Leo admitted that attractiveness was indeed a factor during the blind dates.

"I can't know how the woman will behave in the future after the first meeting," he said. "A beautiful face is the only thing that I can know for sure."

Now that Leo has gone back to the United States, he is still keeping in touch with two women.

Leo's family was easily able to find seven women, but some must turn to a professional company to hunt for wives.

Lu Yanxia, a relationship consultant at Jiayuan.com, a match.com-like dating website, told China Daily that she had four to five male clients residing overseas at the same time.

The average price ranges from 50,000 yuan ($ 7,940) to 150,000 yuan ($23,700) and depends on the difficulty of finding a wife.

For example, a client who is 168 centimeters tall has to pay more than a 178-centimeter client because it will be easier to find a wife for the latter, Lu said.

Following the trend, popular Chinese TV dating game shows, such as Fei Cheng Wu Rao, based on the Australian show Taken Out, have hosted special performances overseas to serve clients there.
 

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I don't think those women are the real trainees. They more than likely are models hired for a plubicity shoot.

Look at the smiling faces carrying that log. C'mon now.

Are these girls body guards? Hard to believe. May be the keyword is "special" [function].
Is this some sort of reality show?
 
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Chinese people know that the Lunar New Year/Spring Festival is coming soon. That means massive passengers on trains in China...

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Faces of Spring Festival or Lunar(Chinese) New Year train travelers in China 8 January 2012

Chinese New Year (Chinese: 春節, 春节, Chūnjíe; 農曆新年, 农历新年, Nónglì Xīnnián; or 過年, 过年, Guònián), also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, i.e. the day of the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year—in such a case, the New Year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice. (The next time this occurs is in 2033.) The Chinese New Year period ends with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the month.


Some Chinese believe that Nian ("Nyehn") was a reptilian predator that could infiltrate houses silently like the infamous man-eating leopards of India. The Chinese soon learned that Nian was sensitive to loud noises, and they scared it away with explosions and fireworks.
 

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One of these days I would like to hold and pet a real panda. I need to start save up some more money for the trip and the fees to visit the panda center in Chengdu.
 

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A panda keeper pushes a trolley laden with bamboo at the Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on January 12, 2012. A pair of giant pandas from China's Shichuan province are to be loaned to France after the two countries agreed upon a deal that will see the pair staying in a French zoo for 10 years under a conservation and research programme.

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A police officer checks supporters of the ruling Kuomintang party march during president Ma Ying-jeou's stamping tour in Xizhi district of New Taipei City on January 12, 2012 ahead of the January 14 presidential election. Ma said January 12 ties with China are unlikely to change despite an imminent, once-in-a-decade power transition in Beijing.

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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen is greeted by supporters from her vehicle during a campaign rally for the 2012 presidential election in Taoyuan county, northern Taiwan, January 12, 2012. The upcoming presidential and legislative elections will be held on January 14.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 12: Li Na of China serves in her match against Petra Kvitova of Czech Republic during day five of the 2012 Sydney International at Sydney Olympic Park Tennis Centre on January 12, 2012 in Sydney, Australia

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A child wears a panda-themed hat as he visits the Giant Panda Research Base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on January 12, 2012.

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A vendor cuts up pieces of chicken at her stall in a food market in central Beijing January 12, 2012.

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Chinese look at a billboard displaying prices for groceries along a staircase leading to a supermarket in Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. China's chronically high inflation eased slightly in December, giving Beijing more room to stimulate a slowing economy, but politically sensitive food prices rose sharply.

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A young lady looks at a mobile phone next to her cart containing goods just bought at a supermarket in Beijing on January 12, 2012.

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A street-food vendor cooks simple breakfast to sell along a street in Beijing on January 12, 2012.

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Taiwan President and ruling Kuomintang party leader Ma Ying-jeou (L) greets supporters during his stamping tour in Taipei on January 12, 2012 ahead of the January 14 presidential election. Ma said January 12 ties with China are unlikely to change despite an imminent, once-in-a-decade power transition in Beijing.

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Tourists walk past a beggar in a warehouse and shopping district of Beijing on January 12, 2012.

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Women in qipao pose on the subway in Nanjing, Jiangsu province on Jan 11, 2011. [Photo/CFP]
 

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Members of the Chinese community & others take part in a demonstration to express their condolences to the victims and condemnation towards an armed robbery in Rome, Italy, Jan. 10, 2012. Zhou Zheng, a 31-year-old Chinese bar owner, and his baby daughter Joy were killed during the armed robbery in the Tor Pignattara area in Rome last Wednesday.[Photo/Xinhua][Photo/Xinhua]
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People place candles for mourning during a demonstration of the Chinese community to express their condolences to the victims and condemnation towards an armed robbery in Rome, Italy, Jan. 10, 2012. Zhou Zheng, a 31-year-old Chinese bar owner, and his baby daughter Joy were killed during the armed robbery in the Tor Pignattara area in Rome last Wednesday. [Xinhua]

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"Rome's patience and that of her citizens is finished," Alemanno said, according to a CNN report. "There are criminal beasts that are operating in our city that must be stopped at all costs."

Two people demanded 5,000 euros (about $6,360) from Zhou Zheng's business earnings as he was returning home with his family. After Zhou and his wife refused, he and his 9-month-old daughter were shot dead and his wife was wounded.

A bullet passed through the baby's head and struck Zhou in the heart, autopsy results said.

The Chinese embassy has urged Italian authorities to protect Chinese citizens in Italy.

Counselor of the embassy Chen Guoyou called it a "vicious criminal case" on the embassy's website.

He urged Chinese people in Italy to improve their security awareness and take more steps to protect themselves.

The case has sparked widespread concern both in China and Italy, according to the embassy.
 

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My condolences to the crime victims in Rome. Is it really getting bad over there in Italy? It reminds of an American named Amanda Knox that was accused of murdering her British college room mates (I know it's not related to this story). I can't see Italy as a place for violent crimes because they have tough gun laws like in the UK.
 

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 13: A policeman asks Apple fans leave the Apple's Beijing flagship store on January 13, 2012 in Beijing, China.

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BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 13: Police officers seal off the area near Apple's Beijing flagship store on January 13, 2012 in Beijing, China. Apple with China's leading telecommunications carrier, China Unicom, began to sell Apple's iPhone 4S at the Chinese mainland today.

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Apple has pulled the plug on iPhone 4S sales in mainland China after unruly crowds hurled eggs at the company's flagship store in Beijing.

Hundreds of people had waited in line overnight to grab the new phone at the Santilun outlet (English translation) in Beijing, only to find out in the morning that Apple had decided not to open the store in light of safety issues over the huge throngs of people, according to the Associated Press.

In reaction, some in the crowd began hurtling eggs at the store, eventually triggering the arrival of police who were forced to drag several people away. As a result of the melee, Apple made the decision to halt sales of the phone across its five retail stores in China.

"Unfortunately we were unable to open our store at Sanlitun due to the large crowd and to ensure the safety of our customers and employees, the iPhone will not be available in our retail stores in Beijing and Shanghai for the time being," an Apple spokesperson said in a statement sent to Reuters.

Chinese consumers eager to pick up the iPhone 4S can still buy one via the Web through Apple's online store, at the phone's carrier China Unicom, or from other authorized sellers, Apple said. Apple's four other stores in China, which opened without incident, sold out of their iPhone 4S stock very quickly, added the company.

Along with the many anxious customers waiting in line were a large number of migrant workers hired by scalpers chomping to get the new phone so they could resell it at exorbitant prices, noted The New York Times.

Apple has faced trouble with scalpers in the past grabbing up huge supplies of its products to sell to customers unable to find stock at authorized retail outlets.

Apple's Sanlitun store was also reportedly the site of a skirmish last May between two men, one of whom was allegedly a scalper, fighting over a place in line to get the iPad 2.

None of the news sources indicated when Apple might resume sales in China. Apple did not immediately respond to CNET's request for comment.
 
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