ramblings of an expat Kiwi living in one small corner of Beijing

tilting at windmills

Mar 27, 2012 wangbo

I may, perhaps, be getting a little obssessed with the giant, gaping holes in the

Feb 15, 2012 wangbo

Busy morning, but I finally got around to seeing what news of New Zealand Baidu

Feb 13, 2012 wangbo

An item in Baidu’s email news alert for 新西兰 this morning was a report of

I recently set up a Baidu News email alert for “新西兰” (New Zealand), suspecting there’s

The saga around foreign investment and Chinese investment and Pengxin doesn’t seem to be in

*Updated below. I’ve been following the bid by Shanghai Pengxin with mild curiosity and, I’ll

Sometimes I’m tempted to think you can get just about everything in Beijing. Sometimes the

Dec 10, 2011 wangbo

One thing that becoming a father got me thinking seriously about is where I want

Several years ago now, from memory when I was still working in Tianjin, I was

Here’s an election day treat from the NZ Herald: an interesting article on the use