A friend of mine owns an area of land in western victoria.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

Featuring adaptations from Chinese and western classic, including works from Chinese academy award - winning composer Tan Dun.

For western designers, China and its rich culture have long been an inspiration for western creativity.

I was searching for these three western lowland gorillas I'd been observing.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

Many western companies have tried to imitate such asian ways of doing things, which are based on general agreement.

In modern western societies, however, the focus on individuality and independence means that people are less concerned about conforming to (遵守) the dictates of family and culture.

W : We mainly deal with large volume buyers from western countries and our products have been well received.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.

The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my tongue, both of which were new experiences to me because they are both non-existent in Western medicine.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

in Western Europe, reports economist Robert Stein in the journal National Affairs.

In it the majority of students will have conformed to the standard model of the time: male, middle class and Western.

In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.

But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe's most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones

By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.

We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.

And in fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin's a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

Claer Barrett, the editor of financial times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.

Dating from as far back as the 12th century, they are claimed to be the rarest historic buildings in western Europe.

Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breaks western food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementing their diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in many western countries.

I quickly passed over state schools and southern schools, believing their curriculums to be automatically inferior to northeastern or western counterparts.

She stayed in the Northwest, although the test could not be more specific than somewhere between eastern Oregon and western Wyoming.

The strength of that effect is stronger in western cultures than in East Asian cultures.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

By most recent measures, the UK’s GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

\They blame it on the manufacturing recession,\ says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

And it gives the Western Association of fish and wildlife Agencies, a coalition of state agencies, the job of monitoring progress.

By most recent measures, the UK's GDP has been the envy of the Western world, with record low unemployment and high growth figures.

In particular, they called for forging closer collaborations with western state governments, which are often uneasy with federal action, and with the private landowners who control an estimated 95% of the prairie chicken's habitat.

John Donahue at Harvard's Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

Some western farmers have responded by moving operations to Mexico.

Though often viewed as a problem for western states, the growing frequency of wildfires is a national concern because of impact on federal tax dollars, says Professor Max Moritz, a specialist in fire ecology and management.