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WoAi back in Singapore
Before I start, I’d just like to let you all know it’s not easy taking a photo of yourself and getting a road sign in the same frame. I think this was my 5th attempt, which explains why I’m no longer smiling!
Regular readers will remember I [...]
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Hong Kong has for many years had only a deposit-type patent system. Applicants re-register patents covering China or the UK, (including European Patents designating UK) and they are granted without substantive examination. It is a simple and cheap 2 step process.
But there is a growing call for change [...]
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What’s your first memory of China? Mine, strangely, concerns scorpions. Fresh off the plane, I bowled up to my hostel (somewhere near Xinjiekou) and met an investment banker from Birmingham who invited me to accompany him to Wangfujing Snack Street. I did. I ate a scorpion. The jet-lag hit. [...]
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The Eagles land at Beijing’s Mastercard Center (the old Wukesong Arena) this Saturday, and if you haven’t picked up tickets for the show now is your time to get them for free, and hear Hotel California for the first time in Beijing – live.
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If you were planning on grabbing your green beer to go to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, you’ll have to find somewhere [...]
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Shanghai’s always searching for the next great thing to keep the city on the map: post-Expo, all eyes are on Shanghai [...]
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Having lived in cities and been coddled by Chinese grandparents for a good part of my childhood, I learned to regard most physical activity as, well, something unwashed children did. I might be the only person alive who can’t ride a bike. But when I first heard a friend [...]
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“You can taste baijiu when you’re dead. Especially if you’ve lived a bad life.”
One of my lady friends suggested to me last month that perhaps it would be ’safe’ – and a useful money-saving ploy – to switch to baijiu, the rotgut Chinese ‘white spirit’, after drinking a lot [...]
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If you’re over and done with the “Will Bob Dylan play in Shanghai and Beijing?” saga, you might be reading the last chapter (for now at least), as Chinese media — thankfully other than weibo — is reporting that the Ministry of Culture has approved Dylan to play at [...]
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THE COUPLE SHOW! Cast: Huang Yongping & Shen Yuan, Wang Gongxin & Lin Tianmiao, Song Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, Wu Shanzhuan & Inga S. Thorsdottir, Michael Lin & Heidi Voet, Wang Wei & Rania Ho, Qiu Xiaofei & Hu Xiaoyuan, Quya…