Tag: beijing
|
July 04, 2007 11:04 AM EDT --
(Part 3 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
The next morning, my first full day in Asia, I had a simple goal: to find . . .
more
|
|
March 22, 2007 05:56 PM EDT --
I'm reposting a few articles from my blog about my latest trip to China (my 8th...or 9th...)
In all of my recent trips to China, I've gone someplace I've never been - or at least haven't . . .
more
|
|
August 13, 2008 12:26 AM EDT --
Girl Not Cute Enough For TV
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I wasn't watching the evening news, but listening from the other room. I stopped what I was doing, though, when I heard that the girl . . .
more
|
|
June 13, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --
The Summer Olympics in Beijing are right around the corner! For this game, list as many Olympic events, athletes or anything associated with the Olympics in general. Can be about any Olmypics, . . .
more
|
|
June 20, 2007 07:41 AM EDT --
(Part 2 of 4 -- to read Part 1, click HERE)
The plane banked left to line up with the runway on the edge of hazy Minneapolis. After a ninety-minute . . .
more
|
|
October 08, 2007 12:28 PM EDT --
Let’s start our Beijing trip at Qianmen Dajie.
Qianmen is the street that runs from the end of Tiananmen Square, on a straight southern line leading out of the old Imperial City. It’s as good . . .
more
|
|
August 10, 2008 01:38 AM EDT --
American killed at Olympic Beijing Games . . .
BEIJING, China (CNN) -- A Chinese man wielding a knife stabbed an American couple in central Beijing on Saturday, killing the man and . . .
more
|
|
August 11, 2008 06:12 AM EDT --
"There! There she is, honey!"
"I see her! Look, she's waving at us! 'Hi, sweetie!' Ooohhh, she's gorgeous, don't you think?"
. . .
more
|
|
August 13, 2008 07:49 PM EDT --
I was on the CNN website just a minute ago and read a story that I would have never imagined.
It was a story on the Olympics opening ceremony. It was a grand ceremony with excellent pyrotechnic effects. . . .
more
|
|
July 18, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
(Part 4 of 4. To begin at Part 1, click HERE)
Four days later, sitting alone on the Great Wall at Simatai, sixty-five . . .
more
|
|
March 16, 2008 10:59 AM EDT --
The ruling clique of China is really sweating today. For the past couple of years they have assiduously cultivated the appearance of being kinder and gentler as the memories of the Tiananmen massacre . . .
more
|
|
August 08, 2008 06:39 AM EDT --
I don't have to pay a heavy price for calling 'a spade a spade'
No-holds-barred for China of the Great Wonder Wall tete-a-tete !
Alluring highland scenery ajars of rivers, lakes, grand . . .
more
|
|
August 08, 2008 10:37 AM EDT --
I thought it would be appropriate on the day that the opening ceremonies started to talk about the Olympics being held in China. It seems there is a lot of debate over this and some things have . . .
more
|
|
March 18, 2007 04:40 PM EDT --
I'm republishing a few blog entries I wrote on my recent trip to China - the Gather server was just too slow to do it from Beijing...
I'm here in Beijing, in a net bar off Qianmen . . .
more
|
|
May 30, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
My latest China video-blog can be viewed here.
Enjoy.
Previous video here.
And you can see my China photos here.
more
|
|
March 23, 2007 11:31 PM EDT --
Last in a series, about my most recent trip to China...
My last day in Beijing, I decided to check out a wine bar some friends had told me about, in a hutong by the Lama Temple. The Vineyard . . .
more
|
|
April 11, 2006 11:14 PM EDT --
Tonight I watched "Tank Man" on Frontline on PBS. They began the program by looking at what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and gradually moved on to how the cultural and economic climates . . .
more
|
|
June 08, 2007 10:58 PM EDT --
A while back I had the distinct pleasure of taking a trip to Asia. My travels took to me such exotic locales (for me at least) as Hanoi, Beijing and Hong Kong. What an incredible experience! . . .
more
|
|
July 31, 2008 08:43 AM EDT --
Check this out, and remember this story the next time you complain about slow page loads.
BBC News, Main Press Centre, Beijing
By Michael Bristow
Internet censorship is nothing new . . .
more
|
|
August 04, 2008 11:36 AM EDT --
Following the tragedy of Tiananmen Square in1989, the Chinese Party decided that the way to remain in power would be to ease up on economic freedom as a tradeoff for political freedom. After DengXiaping . . .
more
|
|
|
|
