I recently talked with Jean Wu from China Help Line that offers telephone-based interpretation service to foreigners.
You can read the interview on the My China Start blog.

Sitting next to the Super Brand Mall in Pudong drinking an Australian made coffee, I noticed a huge ad of C&A.
Fons wrote already about the entrance of this Dutch fashion chain in China but he mentioned they were still preparing. I haven’t gone inside the Mall to check whether they had set up […]

Just before the opening of the Olympics China will make an important announcement to the world on how they will start tackling the environmental problems that China faces. That’s at least what Wolfgang Grulke said (I hope I’ve quoted him correctly) during his talk about the Future last week here in Shanghai.
Wolfgang is […]

Yet again an announcement to control the internet in China more.
It can be summed up with one phrase. An Internet Culture with Chinese characteristics
I guess it’s about time each and any country will start doing the same.
I like to see an Internet culture with:
French characteristics,
one with Indian characteristics,
a Fiji version and […]

A long time ago, I taught a bit of English. Being Dutch and having an accent I’m happy to say there are now 3 Chinese women in Kunming that pronounce words like “Go”, with a hard G. It sounds a bit like Ghhhhrrrooo. It was a short lived career for many reasons.
Having known […]

The Humanaught has a nice find. He quotes an article from the China Daily that Baseball is a Chinese invention

Baseball a Chinese invention
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-04-01 08:35
Though long thought to have evolved from the UK-created rounders, new evidence suggests that the sport of baseball’s origins extend back nearly 500 years to China’s Ming Dynasty (c1368-1644).
Li Gang, […]