Trying a bit of fun to keep classroom awake
2011-03-01 07:30:28
As I sit here in my office, overlooking the campus of Tianjin Medical University, I can see hundreds of students coming through the gates - each towing a suitcase, or lugging bags - as they get ready to start the new term.
Targeting goldfish trick will not help to protect animals
2011-02-28 10:09:16
When I heard days later about how angry the animal rights groups are, I felt they were just making an unnecessary fuss.
Hero is as hero does
2011-02-25 07:53:33
While today's young Chinese may struggle to point to their heroes, the idea of heroism is very much alive.
Why Yao Ming serves as a very tall cross-cultural bridge
2011-02-24 07:52:38
When people talk about Yao Ming now, their thoughts are of his latest injury and the uncertainty this has brought upon his career.
Search for coat leads me to my block of flats
2011-02-23 07:46:10
I have never been colder than here in Beijing. A perishing cold that creeps across your back and chills your arms and legs.
To Aussies, this zodiac seems mad as a March hare
2011-02-22 07:54:54
When I told my friends in Australia that it was the "Year of the Rabbit" for the Chinese, they were horrified.
Getting married later in life is a modern trend
2011-02-21 09:43:19
Marrying later is a very modern trend, not just in China but also in Europe, Japan and the United States.
Longqing's an ice spectacle to rival Harbin
2011-02-17 08:02:02
On arriving in Beijing in August 2001, I was so desperate to cram everything in that by winter I had been to most of Beijing's famous sites, and many in the surrounding districts.
Something's funny about the bunny
2011-02-17 08:02:02
While depictions of these long-eared animals are everywhere as Year of the Rabbit begins, what the creature represents as a totem is as fuzzy as its fur.
Celebrating the Rabbit's arrival in a rainforest
2011-02-16 07:53:35
As I gazed at the ink-wash that was the night sky over Malaysian Borneo's rainforest, I lamented its silence and its monochrome.
Screenage apocalypse just a load of hype
2011-02-16 07:53:35
I'm trying to get anyone who bites to bet the world will end in 2012.
Rabbit hops in to 'lasers' and ravioli jiaozi
2011-02-15 07:52:11
Spring Festival this year saw my wife Ellen and me traveling back from Australia to Tianjin.