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The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. Covid turned out not to be too much of a hindrance – I had to show a negative PCR test upon arrival on Hainan from Shanghai, and while many Chinese hotels currently do not accept foreigners, I could leave this issue to my guide.
PETA has been successful in pressing Chinese officials to adopt non animal testing methods as it announces the country is in the final stages of approving the use of its very first non-animal test method for cosmetic ingredients. From CosmeticsDesign.com.good news! Click on the link for the full story.
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contributors include schools from Australia, Japan, France, England, India, China and more. My opinion (not this publication’s) is that this is old and outdated as a topic for school, including all the focus in high school (one-third of the reading portion of the ACT test is on poetry). Outside the U.S.,
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Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? melliana from alleged contact zone(s) in northern Laos and possibly south-western China. hardwickii and C. hardwickii and C. malayana had been collected.
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