News
Obama Wins
Barack Obama has won the American vote by a landslide victory: 338 - 163 electoral votes. Missouri, Indiana and North Carolina are still uncounted due to the closeness of the race in those States, but Obama doesn’t seem to need them, although every single vote will always count. Only 270 electoral votes are needed to [...]
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Features
The Xiamen Ryder Cup
Two years ago, when things were very different in Xiamen, a few like-minded individuals got together and had a ...
The BRT Is Up
The BRT - or Bert - is up and running these days. Like everything else done recently to ease traffic, ...
Olympic Madness
I'm sure we all know someone who had to leave China indefinitely this summer due to the tightened restrictions on ...
Business
FDA Comes To China The FDA plans to open an office in China by the end of 2008, to “provide greater protections to American consumers at home and benefit our host countries as well.” Central and South America and other regions will also have offices in the near future. This is undoubtedly a response to the melamine contamination of [...]
Entertainment
Coyote Cafe Last week I went to a soft opening (discounts!) of the new Tex-Mex restaurant in town, the Coyote Cafe. Unfortunately, the discounts are over now, but even the full prices are reasonable - equivalent to most western spots in the area - and the food is great. The tortillas are fresh, the salsa is homemade, [...]
Lifestyle
Drinking Water One of the many questions Westerners have when they first arrive in Xiamen concern the safety of drinking or otherwise using the local tap water. After a thorough search of the Internet for articles on the topic, only two or three were found. These articles essentially state that the Jiulong River, which is the primary [...]
Travel
JinMen Border X-ings Good news for all of you out there with this summer’s version of business or tourist visas. The ferry to JinMen is open and running and accepting foreigners. Rather than fly (expensive) or bus (time-consuming) to HK to cross the border every thirty days, you can now hop on a ferry and pop across the [...]
