4 Tips for Maintaining Healthy Kidneys

According to traditional Chinese medicine, the kidneys are the foundation of life. Maintaining healthy kidneys is essential for keeping the body healthy. When a kidney develops a lesion, it is impossible to discharge the nitrogen-containing waste generated by protein metabolism, causing excessive nitrogen-containing waste to accumulate in the blood. Kidneys control the body’s vital functions, ...

Helen London

Proper care is important for kidney patients.

Drink and Get Awakened

A man went to a banquet. He was drunk at home before he went to the banquet and his face was red and flushed. At the banquet, the liquor provided was watered down. The more he drank the more conscious he was. By the end of the banquet, he was totally sober. Before he went ...

Nspirement Staff

A drunk man sobered up.

A Beautiful Tropical Island Tucked Away in China

Are you looking for a new Asian getaway destination during the summer? Look no further! Check out one of the largest islands in China — Hainan. Here are some things to know about the “Hawaii of China.” Hainan Island is China’s largest ocean island in the South China Sea. Since Hainan is the only tropical ...

Armin Auctor

Urgent Action: Letter of Hope for Gao Zhisheng

Amnesty International has called for a letter campaign to pressure the Chinese government to release respected human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng who has been forcibly disappeared for nearly two years. In an urgent action alert, Amnesty International (AI) called upon the public to write letters to the Minister of Public Security, Zhao Kezhi, to call ...

Jack Roberts

Gao's wife Geng He.

Google’s Continued Support of China’s Great Firewall

Google has banned virtual private network (VPN) product adverts in China because of local legal restrictions. The action, however, seems to lend credence to the rumors that Google plans on re-entering the Chinese market with a censored search engine to work around China’s Great Firewall. Following policy or helping censorship efforts? Under its new policy, ...

Jack Roberts

The Google logo.

The Exotic Dai People of China

The Dai people are one of China’s ethnic minorities. They are traditionally known as rice cultivators of the valleys — like the Shan, Lao, Ahom, and Thai people. Most of them live in the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan Province, as well as in the Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai. History of the ...

Armin Auctor

The Dai people.

A Brief Introduction to Ancient Roman Jewelry

Apart from gold and other precious metals, the Roman Empire used glass to create jewelry. Their precious jewelry gives us a comprehension of their culture and civilization. Just like other ancient societies, Rome also had its unique strata of interpersonal classes. In the Roman civilization, jewelry was used to show the cultural status of an ...

Armin Auctor

Roman jewelry.

Helium-3 on the Moon Could Be the Answer to Clean, Sustainable Energy

Research suggests future fusion reactors could be powered by helium-3 from the Moon. And now, nations are on a race to dig it up. However, compared to the past, when only a couple of nations like the U.S. and Russia had the technology to explore the Moon, the race to extract helium-3 is seeing increasing ...

Troy Oakes

A nuclear power plant.

Parkour Soothes Ethnic Differences Between Han and Uyghurs

A recent phenomenon in the Xinjiang region has surprised people — the Han and Uyghurs are developing an unlikely friendship because of parkour. Parkour is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in ...

Max Lu

Parkour.

It’s Time to Rethink Australia’s Approach to China

Last month, Professor Bates Gill, a China expert at Macquarie University in Sydney, published an article in the Australian Financial Review entitled Bounded Engagement: Charting a New Era in Australia-China Relations. Professor Gill’s central argument is that despite the necessity of continued engagement and cooperation, Australia needs to redefine the boundaries of the Australia-China relationship ...

Nspirement Staff

Australian-Chinese living under the Red shadow.