英語(yǔ)角-圓桌會(huì)議 RoundTable0512 - 大媽獨(dú)占鰲頭，大爺去哪兒了？

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If you're a smoker in China, you'll be paying about a penny more per puff, now that the Chinese government has decided to hike taxes on cigarettes.

The State Council, China's cabinet, said it would raise the tax on cigarettes to 11% from 5%, beginning May 10. The higher tax on cigarettes will be passed on to wholesalers and then consumers.

How much will it help curb smoking?

Topic2 Why There's No Talk of Daye

While Chinese dama are all over the news, both domestic and international, Chinese daye, or the male equivalent of dama, are much more low-key.

If you google Chinese daye, the amount of entries are only 14% of that of dama.

Why is that?

Topic3 Kids Wear Monitor Watch to School

Chinese parents are always innovative in children education. Recently, in Shenyang some parents have equipped their kids with monitor watches when they go to school. How do you think about the "third eye"?

What's going on?

Topic4 Over-certified job-seeker is rejected

Sun Haitao is about to graduate from Anyang Institute of Technology with 65 certificates, 6 are of national level and 15 are provincial level. As graduation is around the corner, he has applied for jobs in 50 companies, but has been rejected by all.

This left him puzzled. What went wrong?