Last seen in Hong Kong, 30-year-old Canadian Ani Ashekian has now been out of contact with her friends and family for nearly two months. Ani arrived in Beijing on October 25th to start her travels through China, SE Asia and on to India. According to the MISSING: Ani Ashekian Facebook group, “She then flew to …Read More
A quick note to wish everyone a very happy new year! With the tragedy, controversy and craziness of China’s 2008 now behind us, 2009 is bound to be tame by comparison. Somehow, however, I suspect this crazy country us laowai call home is bound to find ways to keep things interesting and you can be …Read More
As the paparazzi of Time looks up the celebrity’s skirt of Destiny, and the banker of History robs the taxpayer of Fate, it’s time to face the fact that 2009 is less than 24 hours away. The year 2008 brought Olympic joy and horrific natural disasters, and saw the global credit crunch bite hardest in …Read More
Hong Kong-based photographer, and sometimes LLW blogger, Derrick Chang is on a mission to keep Sichuan warm this winter. Though the region is usually most associated with hot and steamy bamboo forests, when the winter months hit, much of Sichuan is very cold and rainy – a fact that is no doubt looming on the …Read More
Recently I was in Shanghai as part of the China 2.0 tour. Though much of the tour revolved around visiting local Web companies, the organizers did provide us with some high-class networking opportunities. During one such event, at Shanghai’s newest hotspot M1NT, an enthusiastic stranger came up to me and slipped a USB flash drive …Read More
The 2008 edition of the annual China Blog Awards is about to kick off over at The Chinalyst, so if you’ve got yourself a China-focused blog, be sure to get your blog signed up and in the running. As with last year’s competition, voting is done in a straight up “Digg-like” voting style, with everyone …Read More
When it comes to being a lost laowai there are somedays where i feel like i’ve landed on Mars. Â However, on an equal amount of days i feel like i fit right in and this is perfect. Â But there’s still one thing i need help with and you are the perfect community for me to …Read More
Well, that was pretty quick. Just two whole months since the worst of the melamine in Chinese brands of baby formula scandal – and tragedy – two of the companies involved in the food tainting, YiLi and MengNiu, are already starting PR drives to build up trust, and rebuild their shattered sales in the lucrative …Read More
It’s not fair to make a judgement call on an isolated incident, but for past two months i have experienced the same situation time after time when dealing with taxi drivers in Beijing. Â The bottom line is this: I feel like they hate foreigners and don’t even want to try to deal with them. My …Read More
Are you a laowai who’s left China for cozier shores, but miss the fun and frustration that Chinese Web surfing brings? Do you spend nights longing for the roulette-like spin of trying to access Web sites in one of the world’s most censored nations? Have you found yourself typing in nonsensical URLs in hopes of …Read More
Banks collapsing, countries on the edge of bankruptcy, a near-return to the Great Depression. All looks somewhat surreal when viewed from the other side of the planet, does it not? Precisely when – or how – the global crisis will impact on ordinary people in Asia is hard to estimate, but it’s likely to, in …Read More
Rolling into Shanghai’s People’s Square last Sunday, New Zealander Rob Thomson was met with surprisingly little fanfare. No media to greet him, no friends or family to congratulate him. A lonesome end to an amazing journey. The random Chinese man he asked to take his photo to mark the moment had no idea that Thomson …Read More
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