Here’s a snip from an Andrew Jacobs story in today’s IHT:
In little more than 100 days, this city will open its arms to an unprecedented deluge of foreigners, many of whom will be pleasantly surprised by the dizzying array of designer boutiques, painfully hip martini bars and libertine pastimes not readily associated with an […]
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That’s the subject of my latest Globorati post.
Here’s another great IHT story, this one from Clifford J. Levy. It’s a playful look at the psychological complications involved in using an Internet phone service to forward local calls to your cell phone abroad. (I use Skype to receive calls dialed to a DC area code number; they’re sent straight to my cell phone […]
Hi, all. I’m back.
I have a story at Tripmaster Monkey today about Asia’s craziest buildings. Enjoy (and leave a comment at the bottom of the article, if you like).
My buddy Ben P., an ex-roommate from college days, is an American climate scientist who lives in Melbourne. He recently visited Beijing; here’re some snips from his amusing observations:
Traffic:
Shocking! We found that the 10 km trip from central Beijing out to our hotel could take 1-1.5 hours during rush hour. Drivers appeared to steer with […]
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The AP’s Audra Ang reports that foreign English teachers in China are increasingly encountering occupational hazards:
It’s a new twist on globalization: For decades, Chinese made their way to the West, often illegally, to end up doing dangerous, low-paying jobs in sweatshop conditions. Now some foreigners drawn by China’s growth and hunger for English lessons are […]
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As I’ve mentioned before, the Chinese think BIG when it comes to engineering. Peep their new project.
Writer Laura Moser travels to Beijing to get her shoulder fixed.
(Via World Hum.)
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Africans Boots of Beijing is a documentary film about an African soccer team in Beijing. The film was produced, filmed and edited by Luke Mines and Jeremy Goldkorn, long-time residents of Beijing from the USA and South Africa.
For ten years Afrika United F.C. has been a force in the amateur soccer leagues of Beijing, China. […]
“China and India, still desperately poor. Chinese children in a village pick garbage (above); An Indian child in a slum (below).”
Pranab Bardhan, writing in Yale Global Online:
The media, particularly the financial press, are all agog over the rise of China and India in the international economy. After a long period of relative stagnation, these two […]
Turns out that video I linked to a few days back is only one of many available from China’s own “The Back Dormitory Boys.”
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David Moser’s “Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard” is an entertaining look at the difficulties native English speakers face in studying what he calls the world’s hardest language to master. I can certainly say, from my own experience, that trying to wrap my head around Chinese was far and away the most difficult intellectual challege […]
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AFP:
Talk about a Chinese take-away. Astronauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisjeng blasted into outer space with a full larder of Chinese specialities including cuttlefish and meat balls, and beef with orange peel.
But the pair of orbiting diners will have to do without chopsticks, which were considered too difficult to manoeuvre in the weightlessness of […]
Don’t miss this gallery of charming — and bizarre — Chinese space-program posters.
(Via BB.)
I had to laugh when I saw an ad on TV last night for American Express’s new credit card: 1% of eveything you charge on your card is put into a savings account with a 3.15% interest rate. There’s a $35 annual fee for the card.
Okay, so let’s do the math. You wanna save […]
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