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Learning is what SIS is all about and parents are at the heart of their children’s learning. That is the reason for Learning Comes Alive events, times dedicated to opening the classrooms for parents to witness and participate in the normal activities of the school day. Each division holds one of these events. Last month [...]
Feb 21 2011, 7:13 am | Posted in Education,Featured | Read More »

CCIFC have the pleasure to invite you to a training course on essential marketing skills Date: Friday, March 11th Time: 9:30-17:30 Price: Member 1800 RMB/seat; Non-member 2000 RMB/seat (Including lectures, course materials, refreshments and lunch) Venue:CCIFC Shenzhen Room 318, 3/F, Chinese Overseas Scholars Venture Building, Hi-tech Industry Park, Nanshan district, Shenzhen深圳南山区科技园南区留学生创业大厦3 楼 318 Tel : [...]
Feb 18 2011, 5:56 pm | Posted in Featured,Management Consultancy | Read More »

Speaking of self-chosen and self-directed activities… we have to talk about the importance of recess done right! Best practices and current research all support recess time as a time for students to have free play! This means that, unlike athletic teams/clubs or in-school PE classes, recess should be a time for students to engage in [...]
Feb 18 2011, 5:35 pm | Posted in Education | Read More »

Futian Shangri-La, Shenzhen introduces an innovative Green Meeting Package in support of businesses wishing to incorporate “green” principles into their corporate meetings. The Green Meeting Package is available at Rmb555 per person per day and includes: • Full-day use of main meeting room • Morning and afternoon coffee break with locally sourced produce • Buffet or Chinese lunch [...]
Feb 18 2011, 5:01 pm | Posted in Hotels | Read More »

Efforts to manipulate the weather and induce precipitation have intensified due to the long drought the in most parts of China. Experts have assured the public that releasing chemicals to induce rain will not harm the environment. Silver iodide is the most commonly used catalyst in inducing clouds to discharge water is considered a hazardous [...]
Feb 18 2011, 11:57 am | Posted in Space | Read More »

With fears over contaminated rice spreading all over China, residents in Shenzhen have nothing to worry about. A rice sample taken from a market in Shenzhen showed that the rice met the national food safety standard as reported by the city market supervision. In the past three days heavy metal contamination of rice caused a [...]
Feb 18 2011, 11:20 am | Posted in Quality Control | Read More »

Under a new ruling Shenzhen residents that are covered by the city medical insurance will be able to share with their insured family members the use of their insurance account cards if their balances exceeds their monthly salary. Last year the average monthly salary in the city is around 3,800 yuan, this means that residents [...]
Feb 18 2011, 8:23 am | Posted in Medical | Read More »

Housekeeping service industry association said Shenzhen is currently facing a shortage of domestic helpers, even when wages were raised to 2,000 yuan a month after the Spring Festival. pay rise was caused when local families started to look for helpers to employ. Wages for an experienced helper is around 2,300 to 2,500 a month. Wages [...]
Feb 18 2011, 7:43 am | Posted in Human Resources | Read More »

To those of you born in the 80’s, that title may bring back memories of big air, leg warmers and all that (cringe) great music we used to listen to. But no matter when you were born, the benefits of physical activity are—hopefully—very well known and practiced! Physical activity is not only a way for [...]
Feb 18 2011, 7:17 am | Posted in Education | Read More »

Two painters from the Guan Shanyue Art Museum are displaying around 40 works in a joint exhibition at the Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery in Washington. The artist are Chen Xiangbo and Wen ZhenFei. Chen works as the curator for GSAM and has been creating a dreamlike art style in his bird and flower paintings in the [...]
Feb 17 2011, 5:32 pm | Posted in Exhibitions | Read More »