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Anyone want to send me some Chinese liquor?

imandrew — Wed, 02 May 2007 08:31:25 GMT

What ch'all say?

Anyone wanna ship to the US some unique Chinese liquor? I'll pay ya'!

Thanks in advance?

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China Travel Tips

Sarah — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:35:17 GMT

What documents do I need for entering China?
You will at least need a passport valid more than 6 months from the departure date, and a visa. Visa is requigreen for Americans and most other nationalities. For a group of more than 6 people, you can apply for group visas. For traveling to Tibet and other restricted areas, you also need a travel permit.

How can I get a visa to China ?
Visas for leisure travel to China are quite easy to get, usually granted for a one month's stay. You can contact China National Tourist Office in New York or Los Angeles. Your travel agent or visa services can also help you, or it can also be obtained from Chinese embassies or consulates. In the North America, you can contact Chinese Embassies in Washington DC and Ottawa, or the Consulates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Chicago, Houston, New York, Vancouver, Toronto.
US citizens can stay in Hong Kong without a visa for up to 30 days. For other passport holders, please inquire with your nearest PRC embassies or consulates.

A tourist visa requires an application form, a passport-size photo and a fee depending on visa types. It takes about seven business days for an application to be processed. For Tibet, the Chinese Embassy must get approval from the Tibet Tourism Administration before issuing a visa.

What kind of visa do I need ?
Most people only need to apply for a single -entry visa, which is usually valid for 3 months after the issuing date and will permit you to stay in China for a maximum of 30 days. More details of a single -entry visa for tourist ("L" Visa)

Should I go to the China Embassy ?
You might go by yourself to ask for a visa application form, or you might ask someone else or travel agent to go to the visa office of China Embassy or Consulate. More details...

Do I need a visa to Hong Kong ?
Visitors to Hong Kong, holding passports from the following countries DO NOT need a visa when staying for a specified free period. Click
here for detailed information.

All the detail cannot be posted here, but the resource of the info is http://www.foreignercn.com/index.php/action_viewnews_itemid_7057.html
Check it out if you need~

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Who's in Beijing?

vagabond — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 03:59:30 GMT

Hey!

I'm looking to meet some expats in Beijing. I live with a Chinese family and just like to have an expat social life as well.

I've lived in Beijing for over 5 years altogether. Spent the last two years in Minnesota though. I'll be in Beijing until August 31st. But I'll be back again after Christmas, likely for long-term.

Drop me an email. I know some great DVD stores if your interested.

Sara
in Beijing

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The 8th Beijing International Jewellery Fair

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:01:05 GMT

Maybe some of you would be interested in it, if you are now living in Beijing~The only international trade event dedicated to fashion jewellery and accessories industry in China.
Anyway, im planning to visit.
Here's more details.
http://www.foreignercn.com/index.php/action_viewnews_itemid_5849.html

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join our tribe: Chamber of Commerce and Trade with China!!

xiaoyi — Tue, 02 May 2006 08:52:14 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/chinawhere

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See you in 150 days

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 01:35:12 GMT

I am on my way, t-minus six months

my boyfriend refuses to go with me, he sez life is too difficult there

I want a difficult life

I'm going to make a billion dollars on stem cell research

I am female but look like a boy

please advise if you care 2

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Watch out, here I come!

mama_longlegs — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:00:08 GMT

I am moving to Shnghai in December. Any advice for a crazy girl in a foreign city?

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Yo, Y'all.

imandrew — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:35:46 GMT

So, I'm doing some research on what alcohol's are available out there in the nether regions of the other side of the globe, and I wonder if anyone there wants to chime on in on what alcohol they drink in China?

I lived in Bangkok for a couple of years, and they had the usual stuff, but I wonder what has made it to China. American bourbon, by chance? American alcohol in general?

Anyway, if anyone off of the top of their head would like to reply about what they see on the shelves, I'd certainly appreciate it.

Thanks, Y'all.

Andrew

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rong chang

Gregory — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 08:11:25 GMT

im wondering if anyone is in rong chang, around rong chang, or planning to come to rong chang anytime soon.

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traveling and living

David — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 19:11:12 GMT

My partner and I are coming back to beijing via HK after baing away from a very long time. Wondering if there are any people that can offer a place to stay while we travel up from hk in Aug so asto save on money at hotels and the like. We're only looking at two nights stay at the most. in any given place.

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TravelersUnite.com - good website

Emile — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:23:19 GMT

several friends & i have been working on this site for a long time. we've travelled all over the world & posted pictures on the site of our travels all over Japan & China.

www.travelersunite.com

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www.sinayuan.com connects expats in China or to be in China

dave — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:38:36 GMT

It's built solely for people from other countries who are interested in China. It has a closed forum where you can basically disucusss everything, but only among expats. www.sinayuan.com/bbs

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TravelersUnite.com - good website

Emile — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:16:47 GMT

several friends & i have been working on this site for a long time. we've travelled all over the world & posted pictures on the site of our travels all over Japan & China.

www.travelersunite.com

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Now here's something to be afraid of : --Operation Summer Pulse '04

vagabond — Sat, 24 Jul 2004 11:30:34 GMT

Terrible! Must read.

Here's the link:
http://f17.parsimony.net/forum30434/messages/283020.htm

“Sailing Toward a Storm in China: U.S. Maneuvers Could Spark a War” by Chalmers Johnson. Published on Thursday, July 15, 2004 by the Los Angeles Times.

Quietly and with minimal coverage in the U.S. press, the Navy announced that from mid-July through August it would hold exercises dubbed Operation Summer Pulse '04 in waters off the China coast near Taiwan.

This will be the first time in U.S. naval history that seven of our 12 carrier strike groups deploy in one place at the same time. It will look like the peacetime equivalent of the Normandy landings and may well end in a disaster.

At a minimum, a single carrier strike group includes the aircraft carrier itself (usually with nine or 10 squadrons and a total of about 85 aircraft), a guided missile cruiser, two guided missile destroyers, an attack submarine and a combination ammunition, oiler and supply ship.

Normally, the United States uses only one or at the most two carrier strike groups to show the flag in a trouble spot. In a combat situation it might deploy three or four, as it did for both wars with Iraq. Seven in one place is unheard of.

Operation Summer Pulse '04 was almost surely dreamed up at the Pearl Harbor headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Command and its commander, Adm. Thomas B. Fargo, and endorsed by neocons in the Pentagon. It is doubtful that Congress was consulted. This only goes to show that our foreign policy is increasingly made by the Pentagon.

According to Chinese reports, Taiwanese ships will join the seven carriers being assembled in this modern rerun of 19th century gunboat diplomacy. The ostensible reason given by the Navy for this exercise is to demonstrate the ability to concentrate massive forces in an emergency, but the focus on China in a U.S. election year sounds like a last hurrah of the neocons.

Needless to say, the Chinese are not amused. They say that their naval and air forces, plus their land-based rockets, are capable of taking on one or two carrier strike groups but that combat with seven would overwhelm them. So even before a carrier reaches the Taiwan Strait, Beijing has announced it will embark on a crash project that will enable it to meet and defeat seven U.S. carrier strike groups within a decade. There's every chance the Chinese will succeed if they are not overtaken by war first.

China is easily the fastest-growing big economy in the world, with a growth rate of 9.1% last year. On June 28, the BBC reported that China had passed the U.S. as the world's biggest recipient of foreign direct investment. China attracted $53 billion worth of new factories in 2003, whereas the U.S. took in only $40 billion; India, $4 billion; and Russia, a measly $1 billion.

If left alone by U.S. militarists, China will almost surely, over time, become a democracy on the same pattern as that of South Korea and Taiwan (both of which had U.S.-sponsored military dictatorships until the late 1980s). But a strong mainland makes the anti-China lobby in the United States very nervous. It won't give up its decades-old animosity toward Beijing and jumps at any opportunity to stir up trouble — "defending Taiwan" is just a convenient cover story.

These ideologues appear to be trying to precipitate a confrontation with China while they still have the chance. Today, they happen to have rabidly anti-Chinese governments in Taipei and Tokyo as allies, but these governments don't have the popular support of their own citizens.

If American militarists are successful in sparking a war, the results are all too predictable: We will halt China's march away from communism and militarize its leadership, bankrupt ourselves, split Japan over whether to renew aggression against China and lose the war. We also will earn the lasting enmity of the most populous nation on Earth.

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Companies

battlestarsarcastica — Mon, 19 Jul 2004 06:32:28 GMT

I'm interested in teaching English abroad and have been cruising what seems like the hundreds companies that have paid programs. Does anyone have any feedback on which companies are reputable? Which to avoid?

Thanks in advance.

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