Archive for the 'Life' Category

China doll

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

SHE’S BLONDE, SHE smiles all the time, and Shanghai’s newest and hippest shopping emporium is dedicated to her. She’s 11½ inches high. Her name is Barbie.
Walk through the new six-storey flagship House of Barbie on the Huaihai Road in Shanghai, the most fashionable street in China’s biggest city, and you see young girls going crazy [...]

Lady Luck not smiling on Macau

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Lucky start in life for baby Xinyue

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

Why China’s first Olympic superstar will be a pianist called Lang Lang

Friday, August 1st, 2008

More Caution, less Lust

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Chinese artists laugh all the way to the bank in £20m auction

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

Woman must have 23 needles removed

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Irish Paralympic squad in Beijing

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

Adult playground Macao roars ahead

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Marathon girl

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Thoughts from a journalist based in Beijing, China.