According to a test by the Dutch Car Consumer Association (ANWB) and it’s European counter parts driving the new Chinese SUV Jiangling Landwind gives another meaning to knocking the front screen.
With the moderate speed of 65 Kilometres bumping frontally into another car or enduring a nice side-impact crash will result in one thing. Death.
The […]

It’s one of those ordinary days. Typhoon Khanun (Jackfruit in Thai) passed by here in Shanghai last night but seems to be gone as construction workers outside are working again. It’s not the first as Matsa also paid a visit before.
Maybe all this wind and rain has cleared some minds.

China will no longer […]

In the hard copy of the “New Weekly” 新周刊 (xīn zhōu kān) （a rather interesting Chinese publication) of 2005-09-01 there is nice phrase about the presumed higher status of Women in China.
男人的法定结婚年龄是22岁，
nán rén de fǎ dìng jiēhūn niánlíng shì 22 suì
Men’s legal age to marry is 22 years
法定当兵年龄是17岁，
fǎdìng dāng bīng niánlíng shì 17 […]

I admit, I am biased, have been on the internet way too much in my life and tend to be more cynical than the average person can stand. So on forehand forgive me but I get more and more absolutely sick, tired and frustrated with the English sections of Chinese websites.
Provided of course there […]

Traffic is hot here. New subway lines are being build while cars are doing their best to clog up every road there is. I remember being on my way to the airport a few weeks ago and actually being stopped from entering the ring road. Road closed, too many cars was the message.
It will […]

I am listening and watching BBC World right now while I am typing this . Thanks to some research done by Fons of the China Herald into the peer-to-peer media streaming world.
Besides that it’s interesting to see P2P used for live tv streams I am actually pretty happy with the fact I […]

Some weeks have been spent elsewhere. The moment I entered the gate my always smiling doorman grinned and said “hui lai le” , “you came back..” After which an even more enthusiastic “Pang le” followed. He didn’t shoot me, he just showed his appreciation for my gained weight.