15 Mar 2007 Politics Socialism with Chinese Characteristics My wife and I went to the National Museum of the First Communist Party Congress of China in Shanghai yesterday. On balance, quite a good
01 Feb 2007 Culture Politics Heavenly Land? Hardly! The new Suwarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok is so bad that… (insert your favorite punch line here). The name means heavenly land. But it's
01 Feb 2007 Culture Politics Take me Seriously, Please! The Chinese Government’s latest attempt at being seen as a world power shows just how far they’ve come and how big a gap
03 Nov 2006 Politics Chinese Word Games, Part II While we’ve all had problems with various websites in China, you can put your conspiracy theories away. It’s now official. If you can’
30 Oct 2006 Business Politics Rest easy, the campaign is finally over. We can all now sleep without the fear of jack-booted thugs breaking down our doors. Now that the “100 Day Campaign Against Piracy” has