| |  Beijing Bedouins by Valerie Sartor
Modern technological gadgets: young people love them and older people are trying to get used to them. For my grandmother cars represented the height in mobility; for me watching television and later riding in a Bo | |
| |  Our Furry Friends in Beijing by Valerie Sartor
If you come to Beijing most tourists and ex-pats will take one long upward look at the towering buildings, scurry out of the way of European Audis and ogle all those stylish women clip clopping along on designer heels. Foreigners think: “Gee | |
| |  The Big Three in Asia by Valerie Sartor
Bill Emmott, a slight, dignified middle-aged man with a tonsured head and dark mien, is a career journalist. He’s also the former chief editor of The Economist, a unique, thriving British weekly magazine that publishes astute but un | |
| |  Future prosperity for all? by Valerie Sartor
Today China must seriously address the impact of continued economic development upon the environment at large. The country's increasingly successful economic growth has unfortunately created constantly escalating harmful effects upon China | |
| |  Murphy's Law by Valerie Sartor
With her fair skin, rosy cheeks and silky, straw colored hair Ann Murphy embodies a true Irish rose. But don’t be fooled by her delicate beauty: behind those baby blues is a sharp wit that has been honed by decades of hard intellectual work. | |
| |  Green World, Many Dreams by Vieno Vehko
A little Chinese history: on September 12, 1979, Zhang Changlin was working in a local chemical factory in Suzhou, Jiangsu province. He accidentally forgot to shut off a flow valve before leaving work; consequently, 150 tons of wastewater, 30 perc | |
| |  Castles in the Air by Valerie Sartor
As of May 1, 2008 stricter anti-smoking regulations went into effect around Beijing in accordance with international treaties that guarantee a smoke-free Olympics. Earlier, in 1995 and 1996 the People's Congress established the first set of la | |
| |  Beijing's Bookworm by Valerie Sartor
“I’ve been in Beijing over fifteen years, actually I came here to study music at the Central Conservatory of Music but I think of myself as only an amateur musician,” Alexandra “Alex” | |
| |  The gangsters of Myanmar by Thanos Kalamidas
What happens this minute in Burma is heartbreaking and the only way to put the way I feel is that I’m really angry. I’m really angry with the international community that has failed to stop once more a crime against humanity. I’m | |
| |  Born to be Wild by Valerie Sartor
"Women often ask if they can tag along on my expeditions but I usually have a good excuse to put them off," John Hare said, eyes twinkling, "In this case, because were again traipsing across the Lop Nur Desert, a former Chinese nucl | |
| |  Economic Euphoria or Inferno? by Valerie Sartor
China's progress into the international economic community has not been simple or linear despite the fact that Chinese businesses are currently enjoying enormous economic success. The western world has been hurt job wise b | |
| |  The Un-peaceful Pacific by Vieno Vehko
Today China is more than a defensive, easily offended, blustering nation: the PRC is a superpower with economic clout, nuclear weapons, an independent space program and currently the chary host to the 2008 Olympic Games. But clearly in the global | |
| |  A Must Read: China Shakes the World by Valerie Sartor
On 26 October 2006 James Kynge won the prestigious Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for his work: CHINA SHAKES THE WORLD, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, publisher). He picked up the award and the 30,000 pound prize | |
| |  For Heaven's Sake, Stop the Olympic Flame by Europe & Us
Now, this is getting really weird. The Olympic flame is crossing the world and everywhere, it needs to be protected from protesters who do not wish to support these Olympic Games in a country which is oppressing Tibet and systematically violati | |
| |  Diametrically Different: Dragons East & West by Valerie Sartor
To begin to grasp the extreme differences in culture and thought between China and the western world one of the most startling distinctions can be found by examining the universal dragon motif. This ancient symbol ha | |
| |  The Heavenly Stone by Valerie Sartor
“Why are the Chinese putting jade onto the Olympic medals?” I asked my colleague Wu Nanlan as we sat in a weekly planning meeting. Raising her elegant eyebrows she gaped at me in surprise. “Haven’t you | |
| |  Free Tibet by Standing Up for Tibet by Linda Lane
Somehow, this series of images reminded me of what Tibet would feel like as a free place, with freedom of speech and religion, sort of floating up into the blue like a sky flower. | |
| |  Paper Tiger by Valerie Sartor
I am a woman who is easily duped. Moving to Beijing drilled this character defect into me after months of being tricked, cheated and laughed at by my Chinese landlord. It all started when I came to Beijing, China's capital city, late last sum | |
| |  China's Forbidden Fruit by Valerie Sartor
Last week I stopped at a very traditional looking teashop, hoping to buy some good Chinese tea for Jane, my friend Michael's wife, before flying to Santa Fe to visit my friends. Jane loves tea; she never drinks coffee. The quaint looking store | |
| |  Peace and ecommerce by Linda Lane
"In his book, The Lexus and the Olive Tree, Thomas L. Friedman proposed The Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention, observing that no two countries with a McDonald's franchise had ever gone to war with one another, a version of th | |
| |  On China's China by Valerie Sartor
Porcelain is a type of ceramic ware that western people call “china” or “chinaware” because potters first created it for the emperor in south central China where a special type of clay is found. | |
| |  The IT Tsunami Wave rolls into China by Valerie Sartor
Cyrill Eltschinger, celebrated author of Source Code China (2007, John Wiley and Sons), arrived on the Chinese mainland in late 1994, working for a subsidiary of GM after being based in Singapore, the business hub of the Pacific Rim at | |
| |  Outrageous Happenings in Tibet: Boycott the Olympics by Alexandra Pereira
Every citizen of the supposedly democratic western and eastern, northern and southern countries should not only be shocked, but also show his/her repulsion towards the recent happenings in Lhasa and the almost 60-year-old occupation of Tibet by China, | |
| |  China's Copycat Economics by Valerie Sartor
North American factory workers are fuming as China taps into more and more industries, almost effortlessly gaining the market share majority. “They copy us and sell cheaper!” irate laid-off American workers shout. But China experience | |
| |  Feng Shui and Celestial Creatures by Valerie Sartor
From time immemorial Chinese culture has been loaded with symbols. They range from auspicious numbers, ancient Chinese characters and pictographs, colors and coins, dates and times - to animals, both f | |
| |  The Tao of Silk by Valerie Sartor
China’s most ancient gift to the world: silk, arrived long before gunpowder, paper and printmaking. This coveted fabric predated Christ and Buddha. Durable, useful and elegant, it is one of the oldest fibers known to man. Production remaine | |
| |  Aggression in China by Valerie Sartor
“The police said it was a good thing I slept through it,” my Irish friend Daragh in Beijing reported, “Otherwise the robbers might have killed me. It’s quite common in large Chinese cities, actually.” | |
| |  Growing Pains by Valerie Sartor
As China continues to enter the global arena many Western nations have questioned many of the country's policies and actions. Some countries consider China as a threat, a lone bully and/or an economic wildcard. To begin to understand the mo | |
| |  E.T phone China by Thanos Kalamidas
The involvement of celebrities in major international issues often makes me feel suspicious and sceptical but, as I have often written, if it helps to highlight these issues and make more people aware of them, then well done and it doesn’t m | |
| |  Black Market Bodies by Valerie Sartor
China's account of prostitution, like her history, is long and venerable. Imperial Chinese concubines and courtesans evolved during Victorian times into Shanghai's famous "flower girls". These histo | |
| |  The Cycle of Time: The Chinese New Year by René Wadlow
Talk of the Year ahead and the devil laughs”- Chinese proverb This 7 February marks the start of the New Year in China. The start of a New Year is a re | |
| |  Economic Yin & Yang by Valerie Sartor
In August 2007 Chinese news reported that the Beijing Chidong Culture and Media Company began a lawsuit against a Japanese TV station. Apparently SKYperfecTV on Channel 785 broadcast their Japanese production of the Chinese TV series Ku Cai Hu | |
| |  Eyes on Asia by Valerie Sartor
When the western world looks at Asia most people, particularly Americans, focus their gaze on China. Rightly so: the country has made remarkable economic strides, with average annual growth rates in excess of 9 per cent over the past two decades. | |
| |  China and Food: Gobbling up the Goodies by Valerie Sartor
Everything in China is in a state of transition. The Chinese government is enacting new legislation; people are migrating to better jobs; young people soaking up western culture via the Internet and family dynamics are evolving into new patterns. | |
| |  China & Food: The Tao of Food by Valerie Sartor
It's no secret that the Chinese have always cherished exquisitely prepared, thoughtfully presented and delicious food. In China business has long been conducted over banquet tables and every Chinese friend will tell foreigners that no meeti | |
| |  China & Food: Vegetarian Diplomacy by Valerie Sartor
In recent years foreign media has been praising China for opening to the West and stimulating the world economy but actually the country has been going global for centuries. This process has impacted upon all level | |
| |  Like an insurance salesman by Thanos Kalamidas
Would you ever expect a nation to have a party because an insurance salesman made a deal of 3000 euros a year? I imagine not, I doubt if the insurance company would make a party with an insurance contract like that. They might have if it was a con | |
| |  East Asian artists wanted by The Ovi Team
LONDON’S FAMOUS CHINATOWN CALLS FOR EAST ASIAN ARTISTS AS PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE COMMISSION ANNOUNCED As part of the Chinatown Arts Festival 2008: Five Circles, London based arts organisation Chin | |
| |  Chinese toying with the Olympics by Thanos Kalamidas
Another blow for Chinese toys manufactures was the latest news from the USA and Australia with the recall of millions of toys due to a drug contained in the coating of the toys. I decided to check in my daughter’s room, not to make sure what | |
| |  Chinese executional tricks by Thanos Kalamidas
As we get closer to the Olympic Games year criticism is coming more often about different things, therefore Peking had to do something, even if that something is just for show. The Chinese Supreme Court has ordered judges to be more …sparing | |
| |  Proposal for reducing air pollution by Akli Hadid
Air pollution is a threat to human health and to the ecosystem. It results in global warming, the greenhouse effect, ocean acidification and respiratory diseases that can sometimes can lead to human death. There are a few steps men can do to reduc | |
| |  E.T. call home by Thanos Kalamidas
I was browsing through the news when I noticed that China had launched a new missile that destroys satellites. So they successfully tested it with an old Chinese satellite 800 kilometers somewhere above the earth and then warned all the other spac | |
| |  It's a wonderful life! by F. A. Hutchison
I'm sad tonight, but why...? I think tired is a better description, as is emotionally drained! Physical exertion is nothing compared to emotional 'exertion! | |
| |  70 years after the Long March by Amin George Forji
On Sunday 22nd October, China commemorated the 70th anniversary of one of the most significant days in their contemporary history - the Victory of the Long March, traditionally considered the turning point of the famou | |
| |  My first Chinese orgasm by F. A. Hutchison
I heard my first Chinese orgasm the other night (or morning)! I think it was something like 0430 B.T. (Beijing Time), although the Chinese are late uppers!It was the female partner, as men only snore in China! How do I know | |
| |  Mao thirty years after by Thanos Kalamidas
The year 2006, among others internationally, has become important for China. It marks thirty years since the death of Mao Zedong, thirty years without the man that connected his life with the future of this great Asian | |
| |  Tarja Halonen and the ASEM by Thanos Kalamidas
The Finnish president Tarja Halonen made me proud to be living in Finland with her remarks on human rights issues during her opening speech for the Europe Asian summit ASEM in Helsinki, Finland. I have to admit that | |
| |  Chinese-English Problem by F. A. Hutchison
"When a 'foreigner' uses a computer in China-it better 'speak' Chinese!"If you think using a computer is challenging in your own language, you should try using one in another language, like Chinese! This has b | |
| |  Do you have a condom? by F. A. Hutchison
I've come across something cute in the 'Lonely Planet's, Mandarin Praise Book.' I now know how to say the following in Chinese, in case I should need:"Do you have a condom?""Let's | |
| |  $1 million lesson! by F. A. Hutchison
A recent title to an editorial in 'China Daily,' probably the most widely read English-speaking publication in China: 'As we get wealthier, do we get happier?' I read the editorial (in the February 11-12th edi | |
| |  The True Meaning by F. A. Hutchison
Isn’t it interesting how questions go unanswered for years, if answered at all? But, it seems to me that questions are always more important than answers anyway! Take for example one question which was asked of me at the Hindu Vi | |
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