Just to let you all know.....

Coca-Cola Co. (KO), the world’s largest soft-drink maker, said it’s cooperating with Chinese authorities investigating the death of a child who China News Service said died after consuming a Minute Maid milk beverage.

The child and an adult in the northeastern Chinese city of Changchun, became…

Melbourne, Victoria's capital, was designed on a grand scale, with expansive streets and expensive stores, but somehow alleys and byways got bolted on. Now, says Michael Kerr, they are being rediscovered.

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A Chinese firm has decided Scorpios and Virgos are too moody and critical, telling job seekers with those star signs they need not apply. Capricorns, Pisces and Libras, on the other hand, are welcome.

Thank goodness - I am a Pisces!…

World's largest dating event sees 20,000 Chinese search for love On a sunny day on the outskirts of Shanghai on Sunday, 20,000 hopeful, curious and in some cases desperate Chinese gathered for the world's largest dating event.

Better than beijing!

Beijing pea-soup pollution has deteriorated dramatically in recent months forcing a lead official to concede the country's air standards were not being monitored correctly.

As a pall of yellow-brown smog settled over Beijing yesterday (FRI), the city's air pollution index stood at 84, or grade 2. That officially made it a "blue sky day", according to Beijing's environmental bureau.

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Far from promoting growth and political solidarity, which is what the single currency was supposed to do, the euro is in fact achieving the opposite effect, by condemning the eurozone to long term recession and now extreme political infighting. Again, it cannot be right to persist with something which is achieving the opposite of what it was meant to simply because the alternatives are thought to be worse.

What does anyone here think? This is serious

Why creative writing is better with a pen

Not only is longhand a much more portable way to write, it's also much more individual

...........There are far too many distractions when writing directly onto the screen. The internet being the main culprit. But if that's not all, the computer screen itself is enough to put some writers off completely.

Read the whole article! Power to the pen!…

All you need to do is drink 13 bottles of wine a day!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8862386/Red-wine-holds-key-to-better-health-for-obese-patients.html

With its fairytale turrets and a 15th-Century tower, Chateau Latour Laguens is surrounded by vineyards in a region steeped in European tradition.

But this chateau, south-east of Bordeaux, is also at the cutting edge of Asia's growing economic might.

The staff who tend the vineyards and make the wine are still French, but this is now a Chinese-owned domain.

It has been taken over by the Longhai group based in eastern China,…

Nothing to do with anything but it did make me laugh

A Zimbabwean man has told a court that he hired a prostitute who during the night transformed into a donkey, and that he is now "seriously in love" with the animal, according to state media.

"I think I am also a donkey. I do not know what happened when I left the bar, but I am seriously in love with (the) donkey," Sunday Moyo told the court, according to The Herald newspaper.

I have heard that a new Turkish restaurant has opened just off Xikang Hutong down towards Renmin dajie

Anyone been there?

North Korea is on the rise!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/8817467/North-Koreas-Hotel-of-Doom-to-open-24-years-after-construction.html

I am not sure that I want to stay there!

Ok guys and gals - here we guess on the first day of snow - the winner gets  a free beer or soft drink/coffee of their choice - courtesy of yours truly (Yes, we are magnificently generous!)

My bet - 14th November

As I am the judge , jury and provider, my decision is final! God, i love the power!

Place your guesses here!

This is from todays daily telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8758122/Top-10-cheapest-foreign-study-destinations-based-on-cost-of-living.html

It'll be anything but a holiday when three Wairarapa runners compete in the the first International Changchun Sister Cities half-marathon.

Gail Edwards and two other runners are flying to Masterton's Chinese sister city on Wednesday, after jumping at the chance to participate in the event

http://www.times-age.co.nz/news/runners-compete-in-china/1099647/

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