Beijing Calling

I've just set up my new blog about Hong Kong. It's called The Fragrant Harbour at http://thefragrantharbour.blogspot.com. Now t...

Today is my last day in Beijing. It's my last day living in the Chinese capital after three years, two months and about three weeks. I c...

These last several days have been hectic for me. On Tuesday I moved out of my apartment in Dongzhimen and spent the entire afternoon and ear...

Today is the eve before the first anniversary of the Urumqi riots in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. And the government is taking no chan...

Yesterday at around 6:30pm this is what the sky looked like on the east side of town. The clouds were uniformly scattered across the sky as ...

Yesterday two friends and I had dinner at Argana, a Moroccan restaurant whose chef was behind Moro, which I had tried about a year ago. Arga...

Many Beijingers have small dogs that they either have on a leash or carry in their arms. Some like to transport them in their bicycle basket...