Getting to and around Shanghai during Wold Expo

Enjoy Vietnamese cuisine at Va Va Voom

Take advantage of the chance to enjoy Vietnamese cuisine at Va Va Voom, with an authentic Vietnamese Chef behind the delicious creations that makes mouths water. Though the cold noodles some could do without. Singaporean Chef Sean Lee has stayed afloat for more than one year in Beijing's booming ocean of restaurants. Creativity is the secret to his success, he says. "In the restaurant busine...

Foreign Teachers Planting Tree

March 12th is the Tree-planting Day of China. Representatives of foreign teachers--- Prof. Robin Goldberg-Glen, visiting scholar from Widener University U.S.A. and Prof. Ian Barnes from Lincoln University of U.K. participated in the tree-planting activity organized by CTBU. Together with Prof. Li Chunru, Party Secretary and Prof. Wang, President of CTBU, the two foreign teachers did the diggin...

Foreigners and migrants can be model workers in China

The Chinese capital is allowing expatriates to be elected as "model workers" for the first time. "You don't have to be a Communist Party member, a Communist Youth League member or even a member of the trade union in your company," said Wang Yonghao, director of the marketing department of the Beijing municipal federation of trade unions, the authority that selects the role models. "We are simp...

Enjoy St. Patrick's Day

When speaking of St. Patrick’s Day, most Chinese people wouldn’t know what it really is. However, St. Patrick’s Day is one of the most famous festivals for the Irish people. And with more Irish people coming to China, Irish dances, Irish music, Irish food, Irish beverages, and St. Patrick’s Day are becoming popular in China. Here in Xiamen, a few Irish expats and travelers will be leading Xia...

Amateur model rides retail boom

Yang Huiwen is putting herself through college doing what other young women love to do on many a free afternoon out with friends: Try on new clothes. Three days in a week, the 22-year-old English major at Shanghai International Studies University poses in front of a camera, getting 40 yuan ($5.80) for every set of fancy clothes she slips into. And she gets paid prettily for it too - at leas...

China starts to build smart grid to tap renewable energy

Imagine the scenario: bulbs, washing machine and air-conditioner in your house could automatically switch to operate in an energy-saving manner at peak times of power use when electricity rates heighten. Actually, it may come into reality soon. China is stepping up the "smart grid" construction across the country, as Premier Wen Jiabao put it in the work report to the top legislature last week....

A family in the Great Wall

Two generations of a Hui family in Ningxia have made it their goal to protect this ancient structure, by living in a cave house at the foot of the former city fortress. Mei Jia reports A popular Chinese saying goes: "If one man guards the pass, ten thousand won't be able to get through." Two generations of a family in Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region have been keeping that s...

Deliver a letter into the future

Companyspecializes in sending letters on a date days, months or years ahead A chalkboard stands propped up on a side alley in the 798 art district bearing a handwritten message: "798 Art & Travel Post - This is a special place requiring a special state of mind to do a special thing - write letters." The 798 Art & Travel Post, affectionately known as the Panda Slow Post, is special inde...

Drinking liquor

While drinking liquor is still largely viewed as a 'guy thing', one whisky expert sees more Asian women imbibing stiffer tipples. Gan Tian reports The idea that drinking liquor is just for men leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of Annabel Meikle, a Scottish sensory expert and creator of Glenmorangie whisky. This was a theme of a whisky-tasting party she hosted in Beijing last week. "Pe...