Gadget round up: Sennheiser PXC 310 BT headphones and Sonos ZonePlayer S5

Sonos ZonePlayer offers multi-room wireless audio while Sennheiser headphones provide wireless playback over Bluetooth

Halloween Trick-or-Treat for Big Kids at Ciro’s

Celebrate Halloween with us! Why should those little brats have all the fun?!

Setting Up Your China WFOE’s Branch Office.

My firm is constantly getting asked about what it takes to set up a branch office in another city in China. In other words, you already have your WFOE in place in, let’s say, Shanghai, and you decide you want to open another office in Qingdao. Or it could be the reverse. What do you do and how easy is it to do it?

A Catherine Wheel? The Life Cycle of a Teacher in China

For me, it was an overwhelming sense of boredom with life in the UK and the challenge of coming to live in a country that is growing and changing so fast. For others, it might have been the allure of the mystic East, the desire to learn a new language or the chance to immerse themselves in a strange foreign culture. And, for some, it might have been the image of beautiful Chinese ladies. There are myriad reasons that bring foreigners to China. However, for most, there is just one way to get here: teaching English.

Oct 30,2009

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Surrogates (2009)

If you enjoy fast-paced, Sci-Fi thrillers and murder-mysteries, Surrogates is sure to be a great surprise at a time when most films are putting minimal time and effort into fleshing out a story. Bruce Willis and Radha Mitchell play FBI agents investigating the destruction of two surrogates and the operators who were connected to them, which up until then has never been possible.

The misadventures of sowing wild oats

If love is compared to the board game Hare and Hounds, men would be the predator and women the prey. This mate-hunting tradition has rewarded many who played by its rules. But one of my college classmates, Shuai Shuai, does not believe in this approach and does the chasing if she needs to.

Fire flash

This one was easy to guess although I had to check the Chinese writing to be sure. Still, I was stunned for a minute; it’s not every day you go window shopping and come face to face with a tag hat says, “fire flash.” The words sounded so ominous and so out of place inside a trendy clothing store – I felt like I had to do something dramatic.

Blacklist

This is a column of words or phrases commonly misused by Chinese speakers. If you’re planning to be an English teacher, reporter or employee of a multinational company, then watch out for this page each week.

Subway stops to the past – Imperial sites along new Subway Line

After five years of construction, Subway Line 4 began operating late last month. Beijing’s newest subway line, which has 24 stations, runsfrom the northwest to the south and crosses Haidian, Xicheng, Xuanwu and Fengtai districts.