Day 13 - My Home City - Fuzhou, Fujian, China
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
3-Months Backpacking Trip in China
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Day 14 - Visiting My Village - Fuzhou, Fujian, China
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3-Months Backpacking Trip in China
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olympic torch march - Fuzhou, China
TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
Jump to the full entry & travel map Fuzhou, China too many people
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Typhoon Kalmaegi hits China, leaves 13 killed in Taiwan (Lead)
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
Xinhua Fuzhou (China), July 18 (Xinhua) Tropical storm Kalmaegi hit China’s southeast coast Friday after causing severe devastation in Taiwan, leaving at least 13 dead and eight missing, officials said. The relatively weakened typhoon made landfall in Xiapu county in Fujian province Friday evening with winds of up to 90 km per hour, the provincial meteorological [...]
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Coming in October: M1NT Shanghai, an exclusive club for millionaires and billionaires
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
If you've got lots of cash to spare, this news will get you wet. A new 20,000 square foot private club is going to open in the penthouse floor of the 24-storey Cross Tower on Fuzhou Lu by the Bund which is soon going to be renamed M1NT Tower after the name of the exclusive club also present in Hong Kong and Cannes. What makes this club special is that it is owned by members who are also shareholders...
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Teach Japanese in China
Shanghai City (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Our company is a legitimate and local company. We are register in the Chinese government. We are agent of Chinese school, college, university to recruit ...
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Putonghua up North, Putonghua down South :: Midwesterner in the Middle Kingdom
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Before I ever started learning a word of Putonghua (Mandarin), a friend of mine who had been a college Chinese major gave me this advice: Learn from a Northerner, not a Southerner. The reason being that because most Southerners grow up speaking dialects, and then learning Mandarin with the influence of the local tongue. Thus, their Putonghua is less “standard” from those from the North who grow up...
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"Mardi Gras" Heading Home
Enzian Theater (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
David Redmon's excellent 2005 documentary, MARDI GRAS: MADE IN CHINA, will finally see a home video release on July 29. Winner of the Florida Film Festival Grand Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature, the film remarkably was the first of...
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Michael Jordan and the Great Wall :: Midwesterner in the Middle Kingdom
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Whenever you are a foreigner out walking the streets in China, you usually get asked where you are from at least about 1.5 times per hour. When I would tell people I’m American, the next logical question is always “What city'” This is when things would get complicated. “Kansas City,” I would reply. (Hardly anybody in China has heard of Kansas City, just as hardly anybody in the US has heard of Fuzhou)....
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NetDragon CFO On Earthquake Loss, New Developments
Pacific Epoch (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Fuzhou-based online game company NetDragon (8288.HK) lost about 5% of its gamers to the Sichuan earthquake, reports shihua.com.cn quoting NetDragon vice president and CFO Hu Zeming. Hu said Sichuan gamers accounted for about 7% of NetDragon gamers while South China players, mainly those in Guangdong...
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Grandson of Godzilla?
China Environmental Law (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Truth be told there is not much of a family resemblance, but it did come from the sea (off Fujian province–close enough to Tokyo in my book) and it could be the result of humans getting things out of kilter. Here’s the lowdown from China.org.cn An acaleph-like aquatic creature was spotted in Fuzhou, the capital city of southeastern China’s [...]
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KPMG Expands Presence into Nanjing, Its 12th Office in China
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
NANJING, China, June 19 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- KPMG has reached another important milestone by establishing its 12th office in China in Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province. The new office, KPMG Advisory (China) Limited Nanjing Branch, will commence operations with approximately 35 professionals to provide a wide range of tax, financial advisory and business advisory services. Major officials...
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Pg. 69: Wendy Lee's "Happy Family"
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Wendy Lee's Happy Family. About the book, from the publisher: When Hua Wu arrives in New York City, her life seems destined to resemble that of countless immigrants before her. She spends her hectic days working in a restaurant in Chinatown, and her lonesome nights in a noisy, crowded tenement, yearning for those she left behind in Fuzhou, China. But
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The Historical Record for June 14, 2008: Song on the run'??. :: Jottings from the Granite Studio
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 06/14/2008
June wasn'??t an a particularly auspicious month for the Song Dynasty. Thursday marked the founding of the Southern Song after what was left of the Song court had been chased out of the north by the Jurchens. In the confusion, the Song left behind two emperors, Song Huizong (Zhao Ji 1082-1135) (whom Chinese historians frequently blame for spending too much time painting and not enough time worrying...
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Shanghai Nights
the blog of flightcomparison.co.uk (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
by Susie Gordon The city of Shanghai has long been known for its cultural mix of Eastern and Western lifestyles. This vibrant, fast-growing metropolis has plenty to offer. Daytimes can be spent strolling through People’s Park (Renmin Guangchang), checking out the shops along Nanjing Lu and Huaihai Lu. The French Concession offers a glimpse of life [...]
