Mincius.com

A Blog for the expats in Yantai

Jay Chou’s 2008 album –Capricorn the official release

It turns out that the preview release is a leaked version. Now the official album has been released with corrected song names. Check here for the new download link.

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A compiled list of the most popular Chinese websites

Web search

baidu

sogou

News

sina news

sohu news

yahoo China

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A list of 5-star hotels in Yantai

These are the top ranked hotels in Yantai — Golden Gulf Hotel, Orient Haitian Hotel, Ramada Plaza and a 4 star hotel Marina Hotel.

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How to input/output Chinese in English Windows

Is this ever happen to you? If you use an English version windows, most likely you will be involved with this kind of problem. So how to fix these corrupt codes? Here is how.

Step 1: Enable Asian language support.

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“Must Have” Programs for Expats

As you are in China, the most common used computer programs that you need probably are dictionary and Chinese input.  Now introducing two free programs “google Chinese input” and “ICIBA”(dictionary).

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Jay Chou’s 2008 Album — Capricorn

Jay Chou, the most famous artist of Asia, has released his new album – Capricorn. It suppose to officially release on Octobor 9th but it was leaked somehow. Check this post for the download link!

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Some new features of mincius.com

mincius.com just added some new features.

Weather Report: It updates every hour. So check the site for the local real time weather report.

Donate button:  In case you want to help the site, here is a donation button right after weather report. It accepts Master, Visa, paypal etc. Anyway, it’s a must have feature for all sites, right?

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October 1st National Day — A plan for seven days trip

Since the National Day is a 7-days holiday, it’s time to plan a long distance trip. Beijing would be the best choice.

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October 1st National Day — A plan for one day trip

Don’t have any plans for the 7 days holiday?  Here are a few tourism places i would recommend you.  Most of them are within 2 hours drive, maybe shorter.

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Mad About English

The 2008 Beijing Olympics showed the world what the real China is. Maybe it’s about the time for you to learn Chinese (English)?

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