Archive for the ‘China in General’ Category
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Recently there was an interview about On Demand Interpreting in China on GoKunming.com, the website for life and party in Kunming. Greg Sinclair, who is a major player in the interpreting industry answered some questions, however the last question he didn't really answer. But it doesn't matter. Greg I'm gonna ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
Yes, I agree, the earthquake was bad. Really bad. But the latest ideas from the Chinese government are in a similar league. Today I went to a bar for an after work beer... and it was closed. Now that I sit in front of my computer I found out why. ...
Posted in Chengdu, China in General | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
My original plan was to stay in Kunming, however with the whole visa thing getting worse and worse it seems like I have to go back to Hongkong. This is to bad, as I feel that the people in Hongkong actually speak Japanese. I hope I can continue my Mandarin ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
My last post was about if learning Chinese is worth the effort, especially with a look on the recent visa changes. I also listed my main reasons why I am in China, one of them is WORK. Justrecently who is a fellow German and has a blog about the political ...
Posted in Asia business, China in General, Improve Yourself | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Recently I heard this this dialog:
- Hey man, I want to invest in China, I want to settle here, can I do that? I mean because of visa and stuf...
- Sure You can. The law states You can. But we don't know if this law still exists tomorrow.
Two weeks later, ...
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Yesterday I've been to the Hump Bar, which is a popular foreigner hangout. After a while I recognized a girl sitting lonely at some table so I went to her table and started a conversation in Chinese.
Well I can practice my Chinese every day, but this experience was total different. ...
Posted in China in General, Improve Yourself, Learn Chinese | 2 Comments »
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
In the February issue of the science magazine Nature there has been an article about the sources of new pathogens.
Map showing the sources of pathogens newly introduced to humankind since 1940.
The scientists researched the sources of pathogens, which newly arrived to the human world. AIDS would be an example. They ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Once in a while the internet is really fast, sometimes a snail is faster than the internet here. At the moment the snail is faster. This is a real problem with the internet here. From noon until midnight the internet is hardly usable. Sometime the speed is dropping as low ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
Finally, after 1 week in mainland China, my blog got banned here in China. I can still use it through a proxy. I wonder why. I know I'm a critical person, but then I always try to find the positive side of something.
Writing though a proxy is not very convenient, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
If You are from the West then You are probable famous in China. Maybe not in the modern cities like Shanghai or Beijing, but You definitely are in the rest of the country.
People will take photos of You. Sometimes they pretend to take a photo of a tree that is ...
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