The fresh, light scent, called Vert Oriental, is meant to mimic green tea leaf during the Chinese spring harvest.
On Friday Chinese carrier Spring Airlines cancelled a promotion offering free tickets from Shanghai to Saga prefecture in Japan following outcry from netizens.
Consumer spending was hurt and millions of Chinese dawned facial masks in the spring of 2003 when the country was the epicenter of a global outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed several hundred people worldwide.
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This could be a trend, but it could also be part of a seasonal production cycle where Chinese companies import raw materials and components in the spring, in order to gear up to export finished products later in the year.
Some analysts, looking at a recently released Chinese central bank report, think the Chinese will adjust the currency's value in the spring or the summer, but the evidence of the intention to do so is ambiguous at best.
Kelvin Lui and Alan Wong from The Chinese University of Hong Kong published a study this past spring that showed that those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses when asked to perform a specific task.
Like most Chinese from the countryside, my former students tended to marry early, and that spring I often received letters describing their courtships.
Chinese social networking website Renren.com announced plans to go public in the American markets this Spring, making it potentially the first social media company to file its IPO.
The Chinese believed that the rising of Arcturus, the fourth-brightest star in the sky, caused spring to burst forth, while the Egyptians thought that the appearance of Sirius, the brightest star in the sky, brought about the annual flooding of the Nile.
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