The Monday Q&A: Wen Xiong from Wen s Story Den
18 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Wen Xiong will be part of the upcoming Mythical, Mysterious and Magical Creatures Night at the Whanganui Regional Museum. Photo / Bevan Conley
Wen Xiong will be part of the upcoming Mythical, Mysterious and Magical Creatures Night at the Whanganui Regional Museum. Photo / Bevan Conley
Mike Tweed is a multimedia journalist at the Whanganui Chroniclemichael.tweed@nzme.co.nzWhangaChron
Wen Xiong is a Whanganui early childhood teacher and story catcher , who presents her tales at local schools and kindergartens as Wen s Story Den.
The trained chef, former magazine editor and mother of two will
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Nancy Lin, left, with her kids, Miranda Gao, 12, and Stanley Gao, 13, in Philadelphia. She decided to maintain their remote education because of issues with a school building s condition.Photo by Rachel Wisniewski for The Washington Post.
It s happening in well-to-do Pakistani households in the suburbs of Washington and among Chinese restaurant workers in Philadelphia. It s happening among weary Filipino nurses in Queens, Hmong refugee families in Minneapolis and in Silicon Valley s Asian American community.
As school buildings start to reopen, Asian and Asian American families are choosing to keep their children learning from home at disproportionately high rates. They say they are worried about elderly parents in cramped, multigenerational households, distrustful of promised safety measures and afraid t
Remote Derung embraces 5G for inclusive benefits By MA SI | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-24 09:23 Share CLOSE A Derung woman, with traditional tattoos on face, from the formerly impoverished Dulongjiang township of Yunnan province, uses a smartphone. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Xiong Yulan, 34, still harbors childhood memories of the thundering explosions that once served as signal pistols to summon villagers for rallies.
Firing gunpowder was the most efficient way to send messages in Xiong s hometown, Dulongjiang (Derung River) township in Gongshan, in the early 1990s as no phones were available in the area near the Derung River in Yunnan province.
China to expand its water transfer project By HOU LIQIANG | China Daily | Updated: 2021-02-10 09:10 Share CLOSE A bird s-eye view of the Danjiangkou Reservoir Dam in Danjiangkou, Hubei province. The reservoir is the water source for the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
One additional reservoir to facilitate development of Xiong an New Area
China will expand a massive project that diverts water from the Yangtze River Basin to the drought-prone north this year, making the Xiong an New Area in Hebei province one of the new beneficiaries.
Almost 9.5 billion cubic meters of water was diverted through the South-North Water Diversion Project last year, taking the total amount diverted to more than 40 billion cubic meters, Jiang Xuguang, chairman of South-North Water Diversion Group, told the company s annual work conference on Friday.
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