Taiwan allows Dalai visit for typhoon victims

Taiwan said Thursday that it will allow a visit by the Dalai Lama to pray for the victims of the typhoon-battered island.

Sen. Kennedy’s death leaves a void that won’t be filled

Sen. Edward Kennedy’s death is a blow not only to Democratic liberalism, but to bipartisanship in the Senate.

Ancient music concert

Event information
Tagline:Spanish, Instituto Cervantes, Music
Host:Xibanyayu
TypeMusic – Concert
Time and place
Date: 1 September 2009
Time: 19:00 – 20:00
Location: Instituto Cervantes
Street: Gongti Nanlu
Neighbourhood: 朝阳区(Chaoyang)
 E-mail: cenpek@cervantes.org.cn
Description:
As part the parallel activities for Beijing International Book Fair (this year Spain is the Guest of Honour country), Instituto Cervantes will held on Tuesday the 1st of September a concert by the renowned ensemble [...]

Provisional Danza

Event information
Tagline:Instituto Cervantes, Dance, Spanish
Host:Xibanyayu
TypeOther – Theater
Time and place
Date: 31 August 2009
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: Fengchao Theatre
Street: Dongzhimenwai. Xin Zhong Jie
Neighbourhood: 朝阳区(Chaoyang)
E-mail: cult2pek@cervantes.org.cn
Description:
As part of the parallel activities for Beijing International Book Fair (this year Spain is the Guest of Honour country), Fengchao Theatre, in cooperation with Instituto Cervantes, will show the 31st of August [...]

Six Chinese Tea Mixes

By Ernie
Pills don’t heal, nature does. Alright, we’re not saying pills are useless, but it should be acknowledged that even the cleverest medicine, say Viagra, is a synthetic compound mimicking more natural substances. Because they’re synthetic, pills have side-effects, and your body can’t use them as effectively as it could something natural. That’s why vitamins [...]

8 Common Misconceptions About China Debunked

By Sarah Meik
Despite China’s growing global dominance, misconceptions about the world’s most populous nation still abound. Many foreigners still believe cold war-era stereotypes that bear little to no resemblance to contemporary China. Like the Berlin Wall, these stereotypes must too fall: from creativity to kung fu, comedy to corruption, 8 common misconceptions foreigners have about [...]

China Business: The opportunity riding the dangerous wind

By Zennon Kapron
Beyond satisfying WTO requirements, one of the key rationales for allowing foreign multinational banks to buy into Chinese financial institutions was to leverage the investors’ experience to develop a more mature set of regulations and financial industry as a whole. With the slowdown going truly global, we are starting to see multi-national banks [...]

Chinese MNC’s want to shed the Chinese part of their name

By Jason Barber
I will name a few MNC’s (Multi-National Corporation) and I want you to quickly determine in your mind what country they are from:
Siemens, Panasonic, Nokia, GE, Research In Motion (Blackberry), HTC, Vizio, Land Rover, Westinghouse, Philips, IKEA, Bayer, Toyota and Rio Tinto.
If you ask an average American they would most likely say that [...]

PS3 motion controller’s launch titles will work single-wandedly

(Engadget)

The PlayStation 3 motion controller’s actual launch date is still shrouded in multiple layers of mystery, but when it finally does make it to market, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida wants to assure you that you won’t be needing to purchase two wands for any games — at least at first. All launch titles [...]

In Plain Sight, an Actor’s Hideout

(NY Times)
By Michael Cannell

Skatelite was used on the front of a Jenn-Air refrigerator and some of the interior walls; it alternates with rough-cut cedar, creating a contrast of smooth and coarse.
TEN years ago, Eric Rasmussen, a stage actor, inherited a ranch house in a shady backwater on the South Fork of Long Island. It had [...]