Posts Tagged ‘China’

China Is Number One In Internet

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 0:39 No Comments

This is a historic day for Internet and for China as over there they have the most Internet users world wide. Till now America used to hold the top position but China with their 228,5 million users topped.
Its a contrast if we think that the government in China censors the Internet traffic and especially access [...]

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Bjork Upsets China

Friday, March 7, 2008 17:29 No Comments

Some artists are obsessed with interfering with politics especially when they have not got a clue of what they are talking about. Not sure how Bjork thought of it and when she was in China for a concert few days ago, she sang her song ?Declare Independence? and started singing Tibet, Tibet which out [...]

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Beijing Airport: The Biggest In The World

Monday, March 3, 2008 0:45 No Comments

China officially opened the gates to the biggest airport in the world, The cost reached $3.8 billion and it is now ready to welcome the millions of tourists that will visit the Olympic games. Last year alone Beijing Airport had 53.5 million visitors where as the predictions were for only 35 millions.
With this new achievement [...]

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The Largest Man Made Creation

Friday, February 8, 2008 0:41 No Comments

 
Nope its not the great wall of China, nor the pyramids, the largest man made creation is somewhere in the Pacific ocean and it take up an area of about twice that of the continental USA.
 

A vast area of garbage or as the scientists call it “a plastic soup” has formed from plastic trash that [...]

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No fortune cookies at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Saturday, January 19, 2008 19:00 No Comments

The fortune cookies that we all know and have in every Chinese restaurant that we go are not Chinese. As Jennifer Lee in her New York Times research, the Fortune Cookies are actually Japanese. For some reason Americans (and most of the rest of the world) have connected them to China. Specifically Jennifer reports [...]

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Buy your own number from 1 to 1000

Tuesday, January 15, 2008 12:03 No Comments

Well this is a once chance in a life time, your chance to buy your own number from 1 to 1000. Simply pick the number you want (if it is still available) and few days later receive it through post!
Onethousandpaintings is the company behind this and what they offer is simple:
“One thousand numbers = one [...]

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