This just blows my mind. While the Fundação Nacional do Índio made pictures of a hitherto undiscovered tribe in the amazon (narrowly escaping the tribe’s surface-to-air arrows) another agency in a...

China’s official Xinhua news agency is declaring war on strong earthquake! But with the death toll nearing 10.000, winning the war on strong earthquakes would save more lives than the war on terror...

After lunch I suddenly got very dizzy and felt like falling off my chair. When this feeling continued for about a minute it drove me crazy and I decided to go for a walk to get some green tea. My b...

ChangHe Ideal It’s obvious that Great Wall Motors’ Peri was, ahum, inspired by the Fiat Panda, but it seems it itself has been copied by another Chinese car maker. I saw the ChangHe Ideal parked in...

Interesting documentary about Bhutan, Lost In Democracy: After a century of monarchy, the king announced he'd be handing power over to the people. He couldn't guarantee that they would always be g...

Like most peoples, Chinese are very proud of their customs: "...shaving your baby’s hair to make a calligraphy brush; and when she turns a year old, having her grab an object from a selection of d...

I just received the latest issue from The Economist. A colleague dropped it onto my desk and quickly walked away. Considering the cover page, I’m amazed this issue actually arrived. Perhaps the fre...

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Typical Chinese reaction to a bad habit of mine: <something bad happens> Me: Jesus! Li X: What you say? Me: Jesus. Do you know Jesus? Li: Zhisus? I don’t know. Me: You don’t know Jesus ...

This should have something for everybody. Just two days after protesting outside Korean bakery Tous Les Jours, French-embittered Chinese mobs took to the streets and burned a Yugoslavian flag, “as...