Steel is still in short supply in [tag]Shanghai[/tag]. Manhole covers disappear, phone booths, traffic lights and now steel bean art.
Did the metal scrap dealer think one steel bean less doesn’t make much of difference for the real art lover? Did someone just not appreaciate the art?
There are 2 beans left for at least today.
Source: The local gazette
(note: this link has a short lifespan as after a couple of days it will be hidden behind a paid wall.)
I stumbled on Yahoo Answers (a service where visitors can ask questions and others provide the answers) a week ago and searched for questions on [tag]China[/tag].
It’s a small zeitgeist
There are business questions:
E.g. How can I find cheap products or I need an agent for x?
There are practical questions:
E.g. Where can I find sheet music for Once Upon a Time in China?
A whole lot of questions about the role of China in the world.
E.g. Will China become the most powerful [tag]Nation[/tag] in the world? etc
And there is this one that made me smile.
Will china become a gay nation because there will be no females to copulate with?
Source: Yahoo! Answers
How to write an article about an professor with a very [tag]Chinese[/tag] name, Yang Jie, of the “famous” [tag]Shanghai[/tag] university [tag]Tongji[/tag] who apparently faked his credentials.
Make a headline focusing on “[tag]Bogus[/tag] Overseas”
Not that is mentioned how “overseas” the professor is.
Source: The only source you know you can trust.
(note: this link has a short lifespan as after a couple of days it will be hidden behind a paid wall.)
I have watched way to many [tag]football games[/tag] until now. Resulting in too little sleep.
Some observations:
6 hours time difference is too much. Either change [tag]Beijing[/tag] Standard Time for a month or reschedule the games
In a country where social stability is everyday’s slogan, make sure university students have electricity 24/7. They want to watch football, not study for their exams
There is about a 10 second time difference between the game on Chinese TV and Dutch radio. It’s fascinating to hear about a goal and actually be able to mentally prepare for seeing it on CCTV 5.
And what would it be like to be one of those guys facing the public during the match.
Friend: I heard you were there, you know “The [tag]World Cup[/tag]”
Crowd watcher: Yep, I was.
Friend:: You’ve seen any great matches?
CW: No, but I did hear and feel them.
Friend: Huh, where did you sit in the stadium
CW: I actually stood
Friend: Really, was it that busy.
CW: Yeah, but I did see a lot of people.
I wonder how much they got paid or maybe they volunteered for ogling fans.
It’s almost 2 years now that I live in [tag]Shanghai[/tag].
In those almost 2 years I have been mildy frustrated with service, bemused over the way traffic behaves and amused about the image Shanghai tries to display to the outside world regarding laundry hanging outside. I have been a lot more probably but I don’t want to bore the reader to death.
Shanghai is a modern city, at least that’s what I read in the [tag]Shanghai Daily[/tag], what people back in [tag]Holland[/tag] tell me who have seen some skyscrapers in the news and today I realized it is indeed getting more civilized too.
They have placed new bins. Nice design, clear instuctions and finally a place where I can dump all my old batteries in the appropriate hole.
[tag]Pandas[/tag], [tag]China[/tag]’s cuddly creatures, can be seen online these days.
It takes some planning as only between 11:00 and 11:20 China Time you have a chance to see Rong Rong, No. 20’s Son, Lei Lei’s Daughter, Ya Ao, Younger son of Hua Mei and Elder son of Hua Mei on the Panda Cam.
Why most of them haven’t gotten a name for themselves is beyond me.
Maybe they will do another National [tag]panda[/tag] naming contest during the next Spring Festival Gala.
After a month in Holland it’s good to be back in the dirty heat of Shanghai.
Being a [tag]China News[/tag] addict I wasn’t let down. [tag]Dutch Media[/tag] love items about [tag]China[/tag], from little funny tidbits about how the film MI 3 may not be released in China because there is too much laundry hanging in the street to video items about the average time a [tag]Chinese[/tag] tourist spends in [tag]Holland[/tag] while on a [tag]Europe[/tag] tour.
With a bit of luck they stay 1.5 day but for most tours Holland is a short break on the way from [tag]Belgium[/tag] to [tag]Germany[/tag] (or vice versa). On average the time in Holland is probably less than 12 hours.
[tag]Dutch Hotels[/tag] are more expensive than Belgian and German ones. [tag]Chinese tourists[/tag] spend a maximum of 30 Euro to sleep so it makes sense to do it this way as long as Dutch hotels like to stay expensive.
The Dutch tourism board did some self-fulfilling research and concluded that in the future (I guess far future) the Chinese tourists will choose more for quality. With quality they probably imply paying too much for hotel rooms.
One other reason they stay a short time is the fact that Chinese will enter Europe in Germany or France. Visa procedures are more convenient there.
A friend working in the [tag]China tourism[/tag] industry once told me that Chinese tourists spend almost 300 Euro a day while on tour abroad, buying all kind of souvenirs and other brand products.
In 2005 107.000 Chinese visited Holland. A bit less than the expected and the numbers have been adjusted for the coming years. Before the estimation for 2007 was 350.000, now they hope to get 175.000 in 2010.
It would be smart to keep them a bit longer inside the borders and have them spend. Maybe it helps when the [tag]Dutch government[/tag] gets rid of the idea that all Chinese want to stay in Holland forever and improve/simplify the visa process.
Sources: Geledraak (Dutch) , Volkskrant (Dutch)
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