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From WeirdAsiaNews, some photos of a guy who carries a box of 1 rmb notes to the car dealership to make his big purchase. Ridiculous...

One of the things you will get over VERY quickly in China is the need for validation by students, colleagues or friends. The Chinese don’t give one another a break, so don’t expect one for yourself. Sure, they will hand you a compliment, but….

Even with all of the fawning that goes on with a new foreign male or young female teacher there is always an addendum…. Here are but a couple real ones.

There are many mental illnesses that afflict us, but clearly all of us in China are crazy. I’m not sure if it has something to do with toxic adhesives in our toothpaste, the fumes that we breathe everyday, or a slow deterioration of the brain from repeating things thousands of times to no effect...

So a guy walks into a bank, right. He's got seven bags worth of cash. But get this: it's all full of those useless little jiao notes that we all throw away (or at best save for bus rides).

The clerks don't want anything to do with this, obviously, but rules state they have to accept it. This guy is my hero!

True Run will be splitting from China Intercontinental Press. CIP will continue operating a magazine under the title that’s Beijing, while True Run will launch its own magazine called The Beijinger using former that’s Beijing staff.

BEIJING - Remain calm, don’t fight back and try to send a text message to the police.

That’s how Chinese police have advised people to respond if captured by terrorists during next month’s Olympic Games, the official Xinhua News Agency said Friday.

The new “anti-terrorism manual” is the latest in a string of warnings issued by an increasingly jittery Chinese government in the run-up to the Aug. 8-24 Olympics. In addition to worries over foreign terrorist plots, Beijing is also concerned about political protests from domestic critics.

For the Chinese businesses looking for attorneys: don’t look for the cheapest rates and then demand discounts. Trust me, you won’t be happy with those services and those attorneys are not going to be happy with you. Like many things in life, YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR.

Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s respected prime minister-elect is a mystery figure to the people of China. And I don’t mean that they find her to be a strange individual given to dabbling in the occult; I mean they don’t find her at all. Not in textbooks, not on television, not in the newspaper...

Until U.S. tax law changes, we American expats need good accountants on our side (not to evade tax law, but to make sure we don’t get screwed by it).