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This best-selling Chinese novel (额尔古纳河右岸) has now found buyers in the Netherlands and Italy. Visit here for the details.
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© Joe+Jeanette ArchieYou get in your car to go to the mall. That’s not far… a few miles. A few miles and 11 stop lights. Usually you get caught at seven or eight of those 11 traffic lights. (Why don’t you ever beat the odds and get caught at [...]
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Jake had earlier reported that the 696 Livehouse, formerly at Weihai Lu, had found a new location in Hong Kou district.
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I decided to mission it tonight, accompanied by half of band Stegosaurus and my mate Steve.
Firstly, it’s very easy to get to. It’s a five minute [...]
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We had a mind-blowing, belt-popping, flat-out awesome HUMONGOUS FEAST whilst in Sanya!
You see, we were just wandering around the Banyan Tree resort to enjoy the sunset.. when we saw, next to the beach, they had set up a dining area. Turns out that it was their special Saturday [...]
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Jia Qinglin (贾庆林), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), arrived in Windhoek on Thursday for an official visit, at the invitation of the National Council of Namibia, the upper house of parliament. The National Council is constituted by delegates from the country’s [...]
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Today’s People’s Daily reports that archaeologist working in Sichuan province have uncovered a 4200-year old grave at the Sanxingdui site in which the remains appear to be a man and a woman embracing each other. It might be in keeping with my habits to wax poetic on the permanence [...]
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If you’re like us, the fact that your Bank of China card has says “UnionPay” rather than, say, “Visa” or “Mastercard” is probably irksome at best. Good luck purchasing anything from a non-Chinese merchant! As it turns out, the World Trade Organization is [...]
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Hi everyone, sorry I wasn’t able to update my blog that much. It’s quite busy at work today and I spent most of my time online, just tryin’ to get my mind off work or troubles or anything of that sort. I feel sad ’bout being alone lately. I [...]
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Most corporate advertising is bland and boring, so I hardly ever look at the pictures yet alone read the copy. However the new ads from BASF made me stop, look and read.
They appeared last week in China Daily, as part of BASF’s first ever unified global campaign. Based on [...]
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The news on the bonus figures for this recent Chinese New Year are encouraging.
84% of respondents in the recent Hudson Survey said they would be giving a bonus this year. This figure is significantly higher than the numbers for other countries in Asia, and the amounts are higher than [...]