Greener numbers

Comment on You Nuo's column "Getting greener by the numbers" (China Daily, July 16)

I look at China as the planet's hope for going green. Not to put too much pressure on you, but with the country already suffering from pollution and its economy racing forward, it is a necessity that China invest in and research renewable sources of energy and sustainable development.

Jimbobewe

On the China Daily website

Learn to think

Comment on Li Xing's column "Focus on building character" (China Daily, July 12)

I see the same in America and was lamenting it with a good friend. Students are filled with knowledge, but unable to think. Critical thinking should be a required course right alongside learning to read or add. Keep up the good work!

Jim

On the China Daily website

Costs of luxury

Comment on Liu Shinan's column "Weighing the costs of luxury" (China Daily, July 18)

Honestly, we should not build our enjoyment upon other people's sufferings. We are seduced and allured to transgress by the spasm of ads goading us rethink the distinction between thrift and spendthrift.

Eric

On the China Daily website

The queue problem

Comments on Zou Hanru's column "Taking your place in the queue" (China Daily, July 13)

Germans have good manners. If there is a queue at the bus stop, there are unwritten laws governing who goes first and who goes last: Pregnant women and elderly people go first, then women with children, then women and then young men. And those rules also exist in other Asian countries (ie, Japan).

The problem in China is the education - at school and at home. Interestingly, unless there are strict rules in public spaces (such as in Singapore or Hong Kong), overseas Chinese behave in a very similar way to mainland people (ie, Malaysia).

Fritz

On the China Daily website

For whatever reason, education is the way to change people's habits.

A passerby

On the China Daily website

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(China Daily 07/20/2007 page11)