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		<title>Memories of a year traveling in China: 2 steps forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breaths away.” Memory 2 During our first trip with a group of Swiss customers, we heard they would like more opportunities to “come in touch with the locals”. I decided that for the second group in May, we would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memories of a year traveling in China: Alive and kicking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 13:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Life is what happens when you&#8217;re busy making other plans” is what John Lennon said. MEMORY 1 March began with a trip in Yunnan. It wasn’t one with customers. Instead, we decided to spend a week in Yunnan researching more itineraries since at the beginning of 2010 we had only one Yunnan itinerary on offer, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up-sale</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I found myself in Jiangcheng (江城) again. (Where is Jiangcheng?). Jiangcheng is a border town in the south of Yunnan. Its shops and restaurants display their names in Chinese, Laotian and Vietnamese. Jiangcheng feels south-east Asian through and through, with palm trees, soft humidity and warmth, and brown-skinned Dai minority folks. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A prediction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, when I drove this bright-eyed yellow sports car 21,000km through China, from the Yangtze’s mouth in China’s glitziest city, Shanghai, to its source in the Tibetan highlands where all that I encountered was a Yak, practically everyone whom I met asked me 3 questions: How fast? How much? What do you do when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;My dad and my mom&#8221; &#8211; The record of two lives become one&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2009 I learned about a remarkable story. It is the story of a couple who lived in Shandong province, told by their son Jian Bo, a renowned photographer, who works at China&#8217;s State Council News Office where he heads the Art Photo Library. In 1974 he began to record with his camera the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A small New Year&#8217;s wish&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a cloud, I would stop flying high in the sky, Instead, I would choose to change into rain drops that alight on the world of men. If you ask me why, Please look upon the verdant lands of life, And that would be my answer. If I were a river, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The mountains are steep and forbidding&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shan Qiong Shui Jin Yi Wu Lu, Liu An Hua Ming You Yi Cun (山穷水尽已无路，柳暗花明又一村). Thus goes a Chinese saying: “The mountains are steep and forbidding, the rivers deep and ferocious, will I ever get out of here? Suddenly, there are calm willows swaying in the breeze and myriad flowers blooming in fine fields. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture crash&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent driving trip of mine to Tibet ended in Yunnan&#8217;s Shangri-la.   From there I returned to Hong Kong by plane.  My flight from Shangri-La to Kunming was scheduled to depart at 8:55am. The driver of the taxi that took me to the airport was a burly Tibetan fellow with a comfortable smile and an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A day lost in Gang Tuo&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Alright, let’s go and find a place for lunch. But let’s make it a quick one. We don’t wanna end up way behind in the queue,” I conclude after having considered for thirty minutes or more Jo’s suggestion that a meal would be a good thing by now. ***************************** We had arrived in Gang Tuo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in translation&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 12:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend couldn’t contain his giggles as he sat down to have dinner with me in a Hong Kong restaurant. “I just bought the funniest of books,” he declared and proceeded to pull it out of his bag. The book is called “More Chinglish: Speaking in Tongues” and is a collection of poor English translations [...]]]></description>
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