How to celebrate Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year and welcome to the Year of the Rat! It might not sound very appealing but in Chinese mythology the rat is revered for its cleverness and loyalty and the Year of the Rat is considered very auspicious. Although today is New Year’s Day in the Chinese calendar, the Spring Festival celebrations [...]

Welcome the Year of the Rat!

Today is Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Rat. It might not sound too appealing but the Year of the Rat is actually one of the most auspicious in Chinese astrology because it is the first of the cycle of twelve. Legend has it that the rat was the first [...]

Shangri-La no more

Tibet has always seemed a magical, mystical place to me. I saw the Dalai Lama speak in Sydney when I was about sixteen, I have seen films like Kundun and read books like Seven Years in Tibet. But I have never been to Tibet, or indeed anywhere in the Himalayas. It seems that plenty of [...]

Shanghai delights

By Caitlin Fitzsimmons China’s growing economic clout has propelled Shanghai into the spotlight as a centre for international business. The good news for business travellers is that Shanghai is also a place that knows how to play. The city, known in the 1920s and 1930s as the “Paris of the East”, fell into a dreary [...]

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