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Entries for August, 2008

What’s a reliable source for Chinese news reading?

To be honest with you,  there is no reliable source for Chinese news reading because most of the Chinese made English sites update at a very slow speed. The news won’t be “news” if it doesn’t new, right? Anyway, here are 2 main Chinese online media:   sohu.com (English version) and sina.com (English version)

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A song you hear a lot recently when you are shopping

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A friend of mine  told me she’d heard this song all the time when she was shopping. It’s called I feel lonely without you (mei you ni de ri zi wo zhen de hao gu dan) , sung by Han Jing. Are you familiar [...]

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A list of Yantai high education institutions

Since there are a large number of foreign students and teachers in Yantai, I’d like to give those people who wants to teach or to be taught in Yantai a general idea of Yantai high education institutions.

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Your First Tourism Stop —- Penglai Pagoda

Penglai Pagoda ( peng lai ge) is one of the most well-known tourism place in China. It’s just 40 minutes drive away from downtown, Yantai.  Since its not far, you can always pay a visit at weekend.

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Top 10 Chinese Made Copyright Free Cellphone

No. 10 spiderman phone

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Get bored? Some funny pictures for you

Feel like having nothing to do but trolling internet? Its time to have some LOLs.

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A Brief Description of Yantai

Yantai is a prefecture-level city (di ji shi) in northeastern Shandong province. It has 13,739.9 km² in area and 6.5 in population. Yantai administers 12 county-level divisions (xian ji shi), including 4 districts, 7 county-level cities, 1 county and one development zone. Zhifu District is downtown, Yantai.

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First day in Yantai

What did you do in your first day of yantai? I am sure you remember it :) For the newcomers, i would recommend:
First of all, banking. Yeah, first thing i would recommend you do is open a Chinese bank account. There are 4 major Chinese banks.
Bank of China: It has the largest reserve for [...]

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First Post

mincius.com is a life blog specific designed for the expatriates in Yantai. Our goal is to make a community for those expatriates who live in Yantai, provide as much help as we can and hopefully make you a Yantaier!
Right now we have started blog and forum which is enough for the essential using.  If you [...]

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