Flickr user bellumdeos submitted this photo (click to enlarge) of a yurt in Inner Mongolia, China. Something about the vast steppes of Northern China and Mongolia has always attracted me to the region-- perhaps the way the nomadic families who live there can pack up and ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the Day (7.3.09)
Flickr user bellumdeos submitted this photo (click to enlarge) of a yurt in Inner Mongolia, China. Something about the vast steppes of Northern China and Mongolia has always attracted me to the region-- perhaps the way the nomadic families who live there can pack up and ...List of World Heritage Sites grows by 13
The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee just wrapped up its 33rd annual conference in Seville, Spain, where they added 13 new sites to their list of amazing locations around the globe, and made the unusual move of ...Dim Sum Dialogues: HKSAR Establishment Day
Growing up in America, I've been accustomed to celebrating the 4th of July with the typical afternoon barbecues, long days at the beach, and nights of firework displays. When I found out that July 1st was Hong Kong's equivalent holiday, I guess I imagined similar ...UNESCO adds sites to World Heritage list, and drops one too
The UNESCO World Heritage List has just gotten a lot longer. Officials meeting for the 33rd session of the World Heritage Committee have added more than two dozen sites of great cultural, historical, or natural value to the list, and they're considering more.
Among the new ...Dim Sum Dialogues : Top 10 Facts About Hong Kong
Before I start to dig deeper and bring you the best of what Hong Kong has to offer, I think it's appropriate to share some of the most essential pieces of information that I've discovered about the territory in my past few months here. 1. The name Hong Kong is a phonetic ...Dim Sum Dialogues : An Introduction
This post is the first installment in a twice-weekly feature column covering the culture, sights, sounds and current events of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. I think the best way that I can introduce myself is to explain how I ended up in Hong Kong. A year ago I graduated ...Blogger Stephen Greenwood
Introducing another new blogger at Gadling, Stephen Greenwood... Where was your photo taken? This photo was taken on the way up Kilimanjaro. I had the chance to hike it last November at the end of my stay in Tanzania. It was a great challenge, and a good introduction to ...One night in Beijing
Photo of the Day (6.13.09)
I'm a sucker for the color orange. It's long been my favorite color because it's so fiery and bright but also because it's doesn't rhyme with any other word in the English language. That hue combined with my next two favorite colors, turquoise and brown, make me smile ...Gadlinks for Thursday 6.4.09
Twenty years ago today, on June 4, 1989, Chinese army troops stormed Tiananmen Square in Beijing to crush the pro-democracy movement. Hundreds - possibly thousands - of people died. This video of Tank Man remains one of history's most iconic moments. ...and today we ...China's first adult theme park never able to open
The first sexually explicit theme park to be erected in China will never welcome its first guest. The park was torn down because of criticism from public officials. In particular, the artwork was a bit much for the politicians' sensibilities.
Love Land, as the park was to be ...How global warming could change travel
We heard it from Al Gore in "An Inconvenient Truth," and we're hearing it again -- this time from the World Ocean Conference 2009 that is in its third of a five-day conference, taking place in Manado, Indonesia: rising sea levels will likely displace millions of island ...Visitor gets lost, corpses found, visitor still lost
A Beijing tourist got lost around Taishan Mountain in Shandong province. So, in accordance with common sense, a rescue team was sent out to find this person. While searching the rugged terrain, the crew found something completely different – seven corpses. That's all ...Bouncing Brit babes help hotels launch free nights offer
Amazing Race 14, recap 11: Beijing, China's food is awesome--- and awful
After last week's cliffhanger of Amazing Race 14 when Jaime and Cara arrived first at the Pit Stop to only find Phil pulling another yellow envelope behind his back, I thought that Jaime might throw a hissy fit, but no, she handled Phil's news like a trouper. Instead of ...Photo of the Day (5.2.09)
I'm a vegetarian, so the sight of these chickens in the window elicited a very strong gurgle from my stomach. Before college, however, I was a meat-eater. I didn't have my first salad until I was 18. My parents would frequent Chinatown, and I would gawk at the meat in the ...Outsiders not welcome at Chinese spy museum
Foreigners keep out!
Committed to preserving national secrets, the new Jiangsu National Security Education Museum in Nanjing is only open to Chinese citizens. So, if you want to see guns embedded in lipstick, maps hidden in decks of cards and other accoutrements of the spy ...May Day: Festivities around the world
May 1 is May day, and here in Hawaii it's called Lei Day. Most of the islands' schools are off today, and surfers will likely be in the water (as the first legitimate south swell of the summer season is here). You will find me and most of the Oahu's daytime party goers ...Amazing Race 14, recap 10: Swimming like Michael Phelps isn't easy
If there was one episode of Amazing Race14 that could get your sympathy genes going, this was it. Certain parts were downright pitiful. "You poor, poor thing," I kept saying to Jen. I could have cried myself. I was even rooting for Jaime in this episode, even though she has ...
