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Chinese need mortgages too

2008-02-27T15:05:00.000-08:00

Ethnic Chinese have often been compared to the Jews. Just as the Jews have the Jew Diaspora, Chinese too have their Chinese Diaspora. In can find Chinese in almost every corner of the world including Asian countries where they are often regarded as rich towkays (business boss) associated with wealth. It is not surprising for Chinese ancestors have gone through very hard times and have honed

More high IQ kids in China than in whole of North America

2008-02-15T03:39:00.000-08:00

Did you know? Sometimes size matter. If you're one in a million in China, there are 1,300 people just like you. In India, there are 1,100 people just like you.The 25% of the population in China with the highest IQs is greater than the total population of North America. In India, it's the top 28%. Translation for teachers: they have more honors kids than we have kids.Did you know? China will soon

Chinese likes to travel, especially to Spain

2008-02-10T21:31:00.000-08:00

From ages ago, Chinese have been traveling. Admiral Zheng (Cheng Ho) explored the world with his mighty fleet and now some even claimed he was in the American continent before Columbus. Other Chinese traveled for different reasons. At one time in the past, Chinese in China faced great hardship, and many migrated hoping to find greener pastures and you now can find Chinese in many countries of the

Lucky panties for Year of the Rat

2008-02-02T19:27:00.000-08:00

Chinese calendar is based on the moon (lunar) and each year is associated with an animal. The coming new year is Year of the Rat and now it seems wearing panties with an image of a rat is lucky for the wearer for that New Year. Here is an example of what Chinese seeking good fortune may be wearing (it is a combination of 2 photos):This photo is a combination of photos belonging to Crystal Foxx

Chinese too need life insurance: Chinese are not immortal

2008-01-27T17:23:00.000-08:00

Chinese ImmortalityThere are plenty of tales about Chinese immortality. It seems there is a Chinese herb called Jiaogulan (jow-goo-lawn) that has such a long list of rejuvenating properties that in China they call it the "immortality" herb. Then there are "The Xian" Chinese Immortals blessed with the ability to fly, weightlessness, invisibility, longevity, mastery of the elements - earth, air,

Chinese in Spain

2008-01-23T03:24:00.000-08:00

Chinese are all over the world, including Spain. Some says Chinese immigrants started arriving in Spain in the 16th century, but significant number of Chinese immigrants only started arriving in the 1920s and 1930s. They started with humble beginning, as peddlers. Then the Chinese started, you know it, Chinese restaurants and later became traders as well as ventured into the textile industry. The

Chinese in America

2008-01-17T06:07:00.000-08:00

Chinese first started migrating to the United State of America, but the significant number of Chinese immigrants only started arriving in the States in 1848 during the California gold rush. Majority are male with low educational qualifications from the Guangdong province (who speak the Cantonese dialect). I understand they were not very well treated. In fact, Chinese were banned from migrating to

Thrifty Chinese use VoIP calls

2008-01-15T21:53:00.000-08:00

What is VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)VoIP is short for Voice over Internet Protocol but is also known by other terms such as Broadband telephony, Internet telephony, IP Telephony, Internet telephony, Broadband Phone and Voice over Broadband. Pick your choice, but I think the one most people use is Voice over Internet Protocol. It uses the Internet to transmit voice over the Internet and can

Chinese are great entrepreneurs. Now Chinese should get into Internet Entrepreneurship.

2008-01-14T22:04:00.000-08:00

Our Chinese ancestors went through very hard time in the past. Perhaps because of this, it has cultivated a hard working nature and an instinct for survival in their descendants. Perhaps also because of its very difficult past, Chinese also have an affinity for business and entrepreneurship. Look at the oversea Chinese (Chinese diaspora). They dominate the economy in many countries in which they

Chinese Coffee?

2008-01-12T16:51:00.000-08:00

What exactly is Chinese Coffee?That is a real good question - "what is Chinese coffee?". Chinese are known for drinking Chinese tea, the sugarless type, not the English tea contaminated with unhealthy sugar and milk or creamer. Well, the most famous "Chinese Coffee" is not real coffee at all. It is a well known play by Ira Lewis made into a film for the Tribeca Film Festival, starring Al Pacino

Chinese plays tennis too and there are Chinese tennis champions and Chinese tennis equipment manufacturers as well

2007-12-22T05:37:00.001-08:00

Tennis sportsThere are actually two tennis sports - the tennis played with large, stringed tennis racquets played on large open courts, and table tennis played on tables with small wooden tennis bats and tiny table tennis balls. The Chinese excel at the later, having won many world table tennis tournaments, but only slowly making headway in open court tennis. The tennis sport we are referring to

Chinese are human too. They need to keep cool

2007-12-12T11:38:00.000-08:00

Chinese are human too, made of flesh and blood, mortal too. No, although the Chinese civilization had long history and some attempts had been made to find that elusive "elixir for eternal life", those attempts had eluded the Chinese. Thus Chinese have needs just like any other human.One of those needs are to keep cool, to live in comfortable and pleasant looking surroundings and also to have

Gold Coast Chinese connections and Gold Coast attractions

2007-11-17T18:01:00.000-08:00

The Chinese connections with Australia started with the gold rush in the 1800's. Most of them were not very well treated. Seehttp://www.oldmogotown.com.au/chinese.htmlWhen the gold discoveries began to dwindle, many Chinese returned to their homeland, but a few chose to stay, run businesses, marry and settle permanently in Australia.Chinese are now much better treated now, and in fact, probably

Famous Chinese actresses

2007-10-18T23:57:00.000-07:00

The Spock people search engine featured Nip/Tuck actor which as I mentioned in an earlier post, did not have any Chinese actor or actress listed. I have tried using www.spock.com to look for American Chinese actor to suggest to the show creator Ryan Murphy to include in the cast, but had not thought of actresses. After all, this is the time of liberation and sexual equality, and it is not

American Chinese actor in Spock search engine

2007-10-18T18:52:00.000-07:00

I have found www.spock.com really interesting as I can find all kinds of Chinese personalities using that search engine. I have written about Nip/Tuck actor and how disappointed that I could not find a single Chinese actor in the Spock search engine result page. I have commented that since the show creator Ryan Murphy was quoted as saying they will be scouring online message boards so that he can

Chinese Billionaire on Spock People Search Engine

2007-10-18T17:23:00.000-07:00

Just found out about www.spock.com, a people search engine. Very interesting. All of us knows about Google search engine, Yahoo search engine, etc. I even found out about Dogpile search engine from a Fullbright scholar which search many other search engines at one go, a kind of compound search engine. I have also published about a post on Technorati blog search engine. But a people search engine?

Famous Chinese Chef

2007-10-17T22:21:00.000-07:00

I am still trying to find out what this site www.spock.com is all about. From preliminary examination, it looks like some kind of people search engine. I see a link chef right at the top of the page and thought I would like to try searching for some well known Chinese Chef. Update: that link I mentioned above changes with time. The last time I look at the site again, it was a link for "

Guanxi. The First Word in Chinese Trade

2007-04-17T19:52:00.000-07:00

Guanxi. The First Word in Chinese Trade by Peter BennettA colleague once told me that a good indicator of economic confidence was the number of construction cranes on the skyline. If he's correct, Beijing is feeling good about its prospects, very good in fact.According to figures recently published by the Associated Press, China's economy grew at a blistering 9.4 percent in the first three

Free way to advertise all things Chinese

2007-04-16T23:39:00.000-07:00

There is this site which offers both free and paid pixel advertisements. I need a way to tell the world about all things Chinese, so I generated a button at TomaWeb Free Button Generator. Now I have a free pixel advertisement for this site, only thing is, I am limited to only 60x20 pixels, so I can only put the word Chinese in the button. It is good enough for me. I hope gets popular so more

The Beginnings of Traditional Chinese Medicine

2007-04-05T23:16:00.000-07:00

The Beginnings of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Steve HudsonAt the root of many holistic practices are the philosophies and ideals that come from Chinese medicine. From the beginnings of this practice has been a growth in natural methods to help promote healing and balance.The beginnings of Chinese medicine as a practice come from the year 800 BC. Even though this practice began before this,

Why the emphasis on things Chinese

2007-04-04T15:53:00.000-07:00

1 in 4 of the living person on earth is Chinese. China used to be the most developed contry in the world, but was overtaken by the Western country when it became too inward looking and became complacent. Now with the opening up of China, it may again take its place as a leading country of the world.