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China Unicom finally brings iphone to China

China Unicom has justinked a deal that’ll grant it exclusive rights to sell Apple’s  smartphone in mainland China for three whole years. Unfortunately, most of the  details are absent. The “Wo” icon you see just below the speaker signifies that this here device is ready to rock on the carrier’s 3G network, though we still [...]

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So That’s What We Called Chinese New Year

Family, friends, fireworks, dumplings — That’s what we called Chinese New Year. As you can see, Chinese New Year Eve is like a battle zone. Fireworks everywhere.  You would never feel alone since everybody was sharing joys with you at that night.

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3 Days Away from Chinese New Year

Today is January 23th, 2009.  December 28th, 2008 on Chinese calendar. 3 Days away from Chinese New Year. What should you do now? Here is some suggestion.

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Black Market for Currency Exchange

This is the place if you are looking for a large mount of currency exchange. The address is 解放路166号 ( Jie fang lu 166 )  Here is the coordinates

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Warnning: Get Ready for the Massive Updates

Finnally i’m back to Yantai. It’s one week away from Chinese New Year. Did you buy any new clothes yet? If not, go buy some now because that’s what everybody does before Chinese New Year. So do you. At the meantime, get ready for the massive updates. I will shoot some nice pictures with great [...]

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Around the Net Weekly 01-06-2009

Meet the Macbook Wheel

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10 Ways to Spend Downtime in China — No.2 the Forbidden City

The Forbidden City in the central part of Beijing is right next to Tiananmen Square. The emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties lived there. The Great Hall of the People and Mao’s mausoleum are on the square as well. You can wind your way through some impressive imperial buildings and the grounds.

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5 Ways To Learn Foreign Languages For Free

1. http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/
This site is dedicated to making these language courses freely available in an electronic format. it is an independent, non-profit effort to foster the learning of worldwide languages.

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10 Ways to Spend Downtime in China — No.1 Climb the Great Wall

At nearly 4,000 miles long, the Great Wall is the longest humanmade structure in the world. It has a long history, too — the Chinese began building walls on their borders more than 2,000 years ago. In some sections, you can take a gondola, ride a “toboggan”, or even zip-line down from the Great Wall.

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Manners on the Table

Shandong province is the source of Chinese culture and it’s also the source of Chinese alcohol. Every city has its own alcohol brand. Yantai’s ahcohol brand is called Yantai Guniang. Yantai has its own beer brand too. Although the most famous alcohol brand of Yantai is Changyu. Anyway, Chinese like to do business in [...]

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