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Received an interesting email the other day from a loyal reader complimenting us for having maintained our “Alexa ranking” through the “downturn” in blog readership. I then checked our Alexa ranking, which ranking is allegedly based on the number of readers and it looked pretty good, at least as [...]
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A few weeks ago, a reader e-mailed me with an article regarding the jailing in Shanghai of California businessman Brian Horowitz over a debt he (his company?) allegedly owed a Chinese company. I have been assiduously following the case in the press for many reasons. First, cases like this [...]
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Every time I go to China, I come back planning to write an excoriating post on the place. I mean, let’s face it, it is one of the (if not the) most exacerbating places on earth. I found it even more exacerbating this last time because before hitting China, [...]
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Notes from visits around Sanlitun and Workers Stadium. I’ll have a separate post on a pair of trips to Shuangjing… Refresh: My 10 percent discount card is seeing lots of action given I like the coffee / rocket fuel at this place. Refresh also has a “happy hour” from [...]
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A discussion now seems to focus on when an Egyptian revolution might come to Beijing. The underlying implication is that both countries are ruled by corrupt authoritarian regimes, and at some point the populations will stop tolerating them. For some, that underlying thread is enough to equate the two. [...]
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“If the Jing’an Fire had happened in Guangzhou, we would have been able to bring it under control in no time. Guangzhou’s fire-fighting capabilities are tops in China.”
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All you need to know to ruin your children’s lives.
The Amy Chua parenting phenomenon goes international! The Wall Street Journal, originators of all this insanity, reports that a Chinese translation of Chua’s book, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” has been released in China. The title in [...]
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Submitted by Kelley Chan on January 30, 2011 – 16:51
Struggling for a Valentine’s gift? Any IDEA to please your sweet-toothed sweetheart? [...]
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Our hearts go out to the family of the father and son killed by an explosion in Pudong yesterday. The blast, which happened at around 3:20pm in a two-story residential building in Sanlin Town, was powerful enough to destroy the roof and cause half the structure to collapse. [...]