Tell those Mongols what you think by answering the poll on the Mongolian embassy’s website: http://www.mongolembassychina.org/

This weekend I saw the coolest thing. A little Chinese girl had one of these things and now I want one too! It’s a baseball cap with a solar powered fan, blowing a nice breeze of ‘fresh’ air in you...

"Container cu grup sanitar" I’ve seen some pretty weird spam, and now and then even spam can be surprising and noteworthy: Buna ziua, Ne cerem scuze pentru acest mesaj. Va trimitem acest mesaj ...

No, I’m not referring to the number of casualties after the Sichuan earthquake. This is about ducks. Peking ducks, naturally. On Friday July 4, at 6.10 p.m., in the Shunyi district of Beijing (not ...

book review of Mara Hvistendahl’s “The New Republic” Some quotes: “The red characters painted on village walls throughout the countryside have evolved from the 1980s slogan YOU BEAT IT OUT! YOU CA...

Bush will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, or so he announced this week. Merkel won’t come, because she simply doesn’t fancy the Olympic Games. Sarkozy is still considering it. At ...

Remember this Bush gaffe? I thought an interesting comment was made — somebody said to me, I heard somebody say, “Now, where’s Mandela?” Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the ...

You think the Chinese are funny little fellows … until you meet the Japanese.

Let’s see if I can get the hang of this blogging thing. News round-up! From CNN: A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached...

One of our favorite Romanian bands, Zdob şi Zdub, was involved in a traffic accident: The luck wasn’t on the side of the band “Zdob si Zdub”. At midnight, towards the 7th of June, 25 km from Chisi...