Today in China

All the pictures on this website have been taken by Sean T. McHugh in and out Cambridge University in England. But this website is not just about amazing pictures of Cambridge University, it’s rather a complete introduction to photography with a bunch of Digital Photography Tutorials.

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Cambridge in Colour

This news made it to the first page of this Monday’s China Daily. The deadly illness is probably caused by streptococcus suis, a bacteria spread amongst pigs. What is quite important about this news is that the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture seem to have done a good job searching for the sick and informing the people. This has been approved by WHO spokesman Bob Dietz saying “This is a good job of disease surveillance, and shows China has vastly improved its system since the SARS period in 2003″.

Strange disease kills 17 in Sichuan

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This morning we woke up with a USD worth 8.11 RMB after a surprise move from the Chinese government. Everybody expected the Yuan to be reevaluated in the next coming months

Zhen Bian Cheng (ZBC) is a small fortified village near the Great Wall in the North of Beijing. This is one of the places around Beijing that I enjoy the most. Go and check the pictures in the gallery.

Usually, here is how we organize the week-end:

Saturday
4pm: Departure from Beijing in a mini-bus
6pm: Arrival in ZBC, we cross the village gate and go directly to the old house we will rent for the week-end
8pm: We have a nice dinner. The food is simple but delicious, especially potatoes…
10pm: Dinner is almost over, we are finishing a melted Camembert cooked on the fire. We stay around the fire for the rest of the evening, drinking beer and talking about anything.
12am: Time to go to bed. Some of us would prefer to have softer bed but we all manage to have some sleep because tomorrow….

Sunday
8am: Breakfast
9am: we are leaving for the Great Wall. It will take us two hours to reach one of the Great Wall’s tower.
12pm: We have lunch on one of the Great Wall tower. The view on the mountains and villages is amazing.
2pm: Time to go back to ZBC.
4pm: After a last beer, we leave ZBC.
6pm: Back to Beijing, big city…

We’ll go back to ZBC soon… Probably next month
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