In 2007, a Chinese student at the University of Nottingham killed herself after she discovered that she had fallen for a similar lottery scam.

It was reported on 29 May 2008 that van Hooijdonk had been a victim of fraud and had lost £ 2, 000, 000 to a scam, which involved him investing in a Chinese textile company which did not exist.

And, after becoming the right-hand man of Enver Pasha, he is sent by the latter to pave the way for a new Turkish Empire embracing `` the union of all Turks throughout Central Asia from Adrianople to the Chinese oases on the Silk Trade Route ''.

but I am also a young, able and willing girl who wants to study the Chinese language but is not old enough.

The Free Chinese know that the situation on the Mainland is in flux, and are poised to strike.

It is extremely doubtful that the handful of Albanians who call themselves Communists could have done this without the direct approval of their Chinese friends.

The big question is whether, in the name of a restored Chinese-Soviet solidarity, the Chinese will choose to persuade the Albanians to present their humble apologies to Khrushchev -- or get rid of Enver Hoxa.

And the Chinese, as the Albanian incident shows, have strong suspicions that Khrushchev is anxious to secure a `` shameful '' peace with the West.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

As the work progresses the frame and moving parts become a sort of Chinese puzzle where several pieces must be removed before the part you are working on is accessible.

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But the `` marvelous person '' that is supposed to result from Zen exhibits more Chinese practicality than Indian speculation -- he possesses magical powers, and can use them to order nature and to redeem souls.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

The similarity of the Roman abacus to the Chinese one suggests that one could have inspired the other, as there is some evidence of a trade relationship between the Roman Empire and China.

Another possible source of the suanpan is Chinese counting rods, which operated with a decimal system but lacked the concept of zero as a place holder.

Zhuyin ( sometimes called Bopomofo ) is a semi-syllabary used to phonetically transcribe Mandarin Chinese in the Republic of China.

While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.

The first known references to mouth rinsing is in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, about 2700 BC, for treatment of gingivitis.

As of early 2011, trade with China is dominated by imports of Chinese goods and accounts for about 10 percent of Armenia's foreign trade.

The Terracotta Army commissioned by the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi is a collection of about 8000 life-sized ceramic soldiers and horses buried with the emperor.

Chinese philosophy is the dominant philosophical thought in China and other countries within the sinosphere, including Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

Chinese měiguórén for example, is derived from a word for the United States, měiguó, where měi is an abbreviation for Yàměilìjiā " America " and guó is " country ".

In the fast-paced or Super Chinese Checkers variant, played in Mainland China and popular in France, a piece may hop over a non-adjacent piece.

***** Chinese White Dolphin ( the Chinese variant ), Sousa chinensis chinensis

Another variant is tunghing or " Chinese cinnamon " ( powdered cassia buds ), powdered star anise and anise seed, ginger root, and ground cloves.

This etymology was furthered in the Chinese by the tendency of some Chinese translators, notably Kumarajiva, to use the variant Guānshìyīn, literally " he who perceives the world's lamentations " -- wherein lok was read as simultaneously meaning both " to look " and " world " ( Skt.

Taoism does not fall under an umbrella or a definition of a single organized religion like the Abrahamic traditions ; nor can it be studied as the originator or a variant of Chinese folk religion, as although the two share some similar concepts, much of Chinese folk religion is outside of the tenets and core teachings of Taoism.

In the case of Chinese characters, this sometimes leads to controversies over distinguishing the underlying character from its variant glyphs ( see Han unification ).

The paired swastika symbols are included, at least since the Liao Dynasty, as part of the Chinese writing system ( 卍 and 卐 ) and are variant characters for 萬 or 万 ( wàn in Mandarin, man in Korean, Cantonese and Japanese, vạn in Vietnamese ) meaning " all " or " eternity " ( lit.

* Chinese checkers, a variant of Halma, was originally published in 1892 as Stern-Halma ( German for " Star Halma ") and later renamed upon marketing to the United States to appear more exotic.

Nüshu characters are an italic variant form of Kaishu Chinese characters, as can be seen in the name of the script, though some have been substantially modified to better fit embroidery patterns.

Including variant forms, there are at least 106, 000 individual Chinese characters, but as of 2006, in the People's Republic of China Public Security Bureau only approximately 32, 000 are supported for computer input and even fewer are in common use.

When in Chinese speaking countries, the local variant of characters are used.

Two Chinese variant names for high grades of shiitake are dōnggū (, " winter mushroom ") and huāgū ( 花菇, " flower mushroom ", which has a flower-like cracking pattern on the mushroom's upper surface ); both are produced at lower temperatures.

In Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and other areas in Southeast Asia, Min Nan is known as Hokkien, in addition to the Teochew variant, originating in the Chaoshan region, which is the ancestral home of many ethnic Chinese in Singapore as well as in Bangkok, Thailand ( see Thai Chinese for more information about the Chinese community in Thailand ).

The Hong Kong Sevens ( Chinese: 香港國際七人欖球賽 ) is considered the premier tournament on the IRB Sevens World Series in rugby sevens — a variant of rugby union.

However, again, particularly in Japan, due in part to the way in which Chinese characters were incorporated into Japanese writing systems historically, the inability to specify a particular variant is considered a significant obstacle to the use of Unicode in scholarly work.

Many Southeast Asian ethnic Chinese also originated in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong province and speak Teochew, the variant of Southern Min from that region.

Like Zhuang, Zhong may also be the short form of Buzhuang, which Zhuang people use to refer to themselves, as the pronunciation of Zhong and Zhuang is similar, and Zhong was once a variant form of Zhuang in the Han Chinese historical books.

* Lam, a common Cantonese and uncommon Vietnamese surname ; a variant of the very common Mandarin Chinese name Lin ( 林 )

* Lam or Lum, a common Hakka surname ; a variant of the uncommon Mandarin Chinese name Lan ( 蓝 )

While this game closely resembles Keno, a game which was invented by the Chinese and predates the Han Dynasty, it is recognized as a variant of bingo and permitted in almost all jurisdictions.