Simple Tips To Travel Overseas

Today, travelling overseas has become easier, more reasonable and more enjoyable. Many people explore different places across the world for a holiday, career or business purpose. But while you make a move it is very important to consider so many factors which you might tend to ignore in your rush or excitement. There are social, cultural, climatic and certain other differences that you may face...

2012 My life in China Cities

The Sichuan HKJC Olympic School in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, recently opened with a grand ceremony. Covering 86,000 square meters, the school has been built with a donation of 135 million yuan ($21 million) from the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC). The new school is equipped with facilities for basketball, volleyball, soccer, table tennis, badminton, tennis, wrestling, judo, taekwondo, martia...

Foreign students must know Time Difference between China and Other Countries

Time difference between China and other countries: Afghanistan - Kabul -3:30 hrsAlbania - Tirane * -6:0 hrsAlgeria - Algiers -7:0 hrsAndorra - Andorra La Vella * -6:0 hrsAngola - Luanda -7:0 hrsAntigua and Barbuda - Saint Johns -12:0 hrsArgentina - Buenos Aires -11:0 hrsArmenia - Yerevan -4:0 hrsAustralia - Australian Capital Territ - Canberra +2:0 hrsAustria - Vienna * -6:0 hrsAzerbaijan - Bak...

The Key to a Perfect Night's Sleep

The key to a perfect night's sleep is going to bed at exactly 10pm, wearing pyjamas and enjoying a cup of tea beforehand, according to a poll. The following morning, after a perfect night's sleep, people wake at a respectable 6:47am to the sound of their alarm clock A study of 2,000 adults who claim to enjoy an undisturbed sleep every single night of the week has highlighted how to achieve...

A more travel-friendly globe awaits Chinese

After two decades of vacationing around the world, avid traveler Meng Hairong has become well-versed in the art of body language. Fluent in only her native Mandarin, the 56-year-old retiree has often faced problems communicating with locals in overseas destinations. "It's comparatively easier for foreign people to travel abroad since there are introductions at scenic spots in most tourism citi...

Kites fly high in Weifang

2012-04-17 17:43:14.0Kites fly high in Weifang[1]|chinadaily.com.cnWeifang,Weifang International Kite Festival,1159362China2@webnews/enpproperty--> Competitors fly a dragon kite during a kite-flying competition in Weifang city, East China's Shandong province, April 17, 2012. Weifang is famous for its annual international kite festival, attracting people from dozens of cou...

Chinese are like people everywhere

Chinese citizens are like most people, different in many ways and yet similar. They also represent every viewpoint, and yet we as Americans tend to label them all as "those Chinese". For instance, upon arriving in Tianjin for my first year to teach, I went through the usual cultural shock. In order to combat this and to get outside myself I wandered onto the empty campus where I was to teach a...

Livin' with the locals

After a spur-of-the-moment decision in the train ticket office in Beijing, we booked our return from Harbin to a place called Nanchang on the basis that it must be further south and therefore warmer. As always, there was a complication with buying the tickets. This time there weren't any sleeper beds available, just hard seats. Even so, we decided to go ahead with it, after all, this would add t...

The Joker in the Travel Pack

Ian Wright came to China to shoot season three of his latest show Invite Ian Wright. Jiang Dong / China Daily Before he sent a show reel to Channel 4 to be a travel show presenter, Ian Wright did lots of jobs - painting, cycle courier, making jams and jewelry and selling them on his stall in Spitalfields Market, London. His five-minute video showed him in London's Liverpool ...

Useful information for Living in China

PlugsThe voltage is 220V, but the pins in the plugs are (mostly) arranged differently. An international adaptor can be bought easily, though they're a good deal easier to find in the airport before you leave than on the ground after you arrive. This is especially important for those taking their laptops into China.Videos are PAL, also like the UK, but most Chinese don't watch them. They do watch...

A Foreign Woman's Charity to Chinese Orphans

A picture of Jenny Ma Beijing, March 9 --Jenny Ma, 73 years old, came to China after she retired in California in 1996. She has been engaging in English teaching in a collage in Zhengzhou city of Henan province.Jenny established an orphanage in Xinmi city of Henan province. She has adopted 82 orphans in 16 years. Jenny Ma with an orphan she adopted. Beijing, March 9 -...