A somewhat biased view on China…
Yu Zhenhuan, the hairiest man in China is currently bidding to run in next year’s Olympic torch relay.
Source:
Chicago Tribune
Here is the notice I found in the elevator a few days ago. N O C O M M E N T . . .
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Warm Point Be directed against newspaper have recently reported a plague of rats. Our company for taking preventive measures put medicines into all kinds of public places to kill rats. Give owner or users a safe and comfortable of life surrounding. Hope owners or users to try to keep a lookout a plague of rats with our company and join hands to make a good surrounding of the term also refers to family life. Beijing jianguo property management company July 12, 2007 |
I hope they didn’t put medicine in the swimming pool…
I received the following notification from the company for which I’m working.
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From July 16,2007 till the end of the Olympic games in 2008, in order to ensure the security of Beijing, during the 2008 Olympic Games, the Ministry of Public Security will carry on strictly foreign management in China. 1. If applicants enter China with L, F visa, the visa cannot be transformed to other visa types. (Except for the applicant’s job title is above vice president, legal representative of the company, director, or foreign representative office’s leader). |
I know plenty of people in China and especially in Beijing who are getting their L or F visas extended by small companies. I will try to keep you updated if ever I receive more information about this.
An interesting survey has been conducted by Self magazine… 1,000 Chinese women aged from 25 to 35 from 15 different cities answered the poll.
The list for Chinese women’s most wanted sperm is:
1. Andy Lau
2. Bill Gates
3. Takeshi Kaneshiro
4. Liu Xiang
5. David Beckham
6. Li Ka-shing
7. Tony Leung
8. Louis Koo
9. Lee-hom Wang
10. Brad Pitt
I’m quite disappointed, I’m nowhere to be seen in the list…
If you check the list, you see that all of them are wealthy and some are known to be good looking.
Source:
China Daily, 2007-06-29
Since beginning of June, people in China cannot access Flickr, or more preceisely, can access Flick but cannot see the pictures.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with censorship. Who could imagine this? No, I’m sure it’s just some misconfiguration of some servers betweem Flickr Servers Farm and China. I even heard other countries such as Iran, UAE and Saudi Arabia have/had the same configuration issues.
Whatsoever, it’s getting annoying and so I decided to find a way to see the pictures on Flickr…
It took me on Google Query and less than two minutes…
Well, this solution still is not perfect…
First, if you use Flickr on your blog, most of the people from China (who don’t have this Firefox Add-on) will not see your pictures.
Also, it obliges you to use Firefox to browse Flickr pictures.
And then, if you use Firefox, you’ll never know when the misconfiguration of the Chinese routers will be fixed! 
Source:
Sinosplice, June 12th 2007
Is the nightmare of the Golden Weeks in term of vacation, traffic, etc. going to finally end? It seems so with after what was said by the Dean of Beijing International Studies University’s tourism administration department, ZHANG Hui, said at a forum in Xiamen, Fujian Province.
The weeklong May Day holiday could be shortened to one day and the National Day holiday to two days. To make up for the lost holidays, the experts suggested declaring traditional festivals such as Mid-Autumn Day, Lantern Festival, and the Tomb Sweeping Day as national holidays.
What do you think about this new resolution? Would it help? When and where would you then take your vacations then?
I’m expecting to see foreign expatriate travelling more and more in China. Nowadays, lots of them complain about the traffic (roads, trains, planes) inside of China during the Golden Weeks. No more Golden Weeks would spread the vacations of people throughout the year, reducing the huge number of tourists at some places.
O r s o d o I h o p e . . .
Source:
China Daily, 2007-07-02
More and more employees of big companies are allowed to telework part-time or even full-time in China. Here is a snapshot from China Daily.
IBM - Over 80% of 9,000 employees in China work flexibly. Tens of them work full-time at home.
Microsoft - All of Microsoft’s over 2,000 employees in China work flexibly. Over 1,000 employees in the SMG (Sales, Marketing & Service Group) are allowed to work from home two days per month.
Hewlett-Packard - All of the employees in China HP’s corporate communications department are allowed to work from home one day per week.
Panasonic - Over 30,000 employees of the company’s employees in Japan allowed to work one or two days per week at home since March 2007. No similar plan in China.
I would really appreciate such a plan being started by the company I’m working for…
Source:
China Daily - 2007-06-25
Further readings:
Does Telework Fit China? by Zheng Zhao & Kazuo Nakamura, 2004
‘Les Diablotin’, the belgian junior football team drew against Holland and therefore will go to the semi-final of European Espoirs Championship. But more that this semi-final, they are also selected for the Olympic Games and will be in China on the 8 of August 2008!
foneVillage is Beijing’s first mobile VIP Membership Community! So, how does it work?
You will first need to register. There is a free trial offer but I will concentrate on the normal way you register. You have to pay 200RMB to get 1200 foneVillage points, corresponding to 1200 RMB of Discount.
Then, if you go to one of the foneVillage venues, when you checkout, send an SMS with the venue’s code and the amount of the bill. foneVillage will immediately send you an SMS with your discount.
Besides discounts, you will also get access to vouchers, special events and prizes.
As an example, here are the current venues for dining and their related discount.
It has been reported that the portrait of Mao Zedong hanging above the gate of the Forbidden City has been defaced by a 35-year-old from Xinjiang province on Saturday afternoon. It left a slight burn mark in the lower left part of the portrait.
The portrait has quickly been replaced by a new one.
Source
ABC Radio Australia, 2007-05-14
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