The Chinese government has always sent its officials to training courses to places like the Party Schools, to learn the Marx and Lenin theory and the glorious history of the Chinese Communist Party. Now the officials are being sent to universities to learn something very different – PR. While in Guangzhou for a talk, I… Continue reading Chinese Officials Get PR Training
Here’s a happy little story. Last Thursday I flew down to Guangzhou to give a speech and stayed an extra day to speak to some professors from Sun Yat-Sun University. I was enjoying a late lunch at an open air café on campus when the heaven leaked. It does rain a lot in Guangzhou. At… Continue reading A heart-warming experience in the rain
On the occassion to mark the 60th anniversary of the Korean War, some chinese are asking the questions: why did Chinese have to go to the War, which witnessed the heaviest human loss on China side. see below an article I wrote with my ex Calum MacLeod. 26 P/SUNNY TOKYO (6 a.m.) FINANCIAL MARKETS 99.23… Continue reading On the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War, Chinese are asking questions
News Sport Comment Culture Business Money Life & style Travel Environment Tech TV Video Dating Offers Jobs Comment is free China’s unfeasible plan for the ‘grey tide’: force people to visit their parents The growing number of elderly Chinese people is a demographic timebomb that won’t be defused by a new law passed this month… Continue reading My commentary piece in the Guardian about the controvercial law that demands the adult children to visit their parents often
It is an exciting and strange time to be a tourist in Egypt. After 11 days stay here, we will head to the airport in a few hours and I hope we’ll get out of the country without a hiccup. Well, I know that many roads are closed and we’ll make some de-tours. Apart from… Continue reading A tourist in turbulent Egypt
I still think we have chosen a pretty good time to travel in Egypt. First of all, we are witnessing history in the making; and secondly, we are enjoying all the spectacular but empty sites, which are ordinarily infested with tourists. Since leaving Cairo early on July 1, we flew to Luxor, where we stayed… Continue reading our highlight in Eghpt
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