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Xi'an Models: Guo Jia
Xi'an continues as a breeding ground for potential supermodels. The latest example is our new discovery and head-turner Guo Jia, who will be craning necks when she appears on local fashion magazines this year. We are proud of having her onboard.This university student has been thrust onto the fashion stage in the past couple of months and is really making an impact, becoming a new favorite ND Model! Since winning a model contest in Hangzhou last year, 1,78m Guo Jia will ...
China's Incredible Find
The terracotta army was discovered by accident in 1974 at Xian , in China, when local farmers digging a well broke into a pit containing 6000 li...
Tedious Taxi Trouble
Cab driver got the full whack of my jetlagged frustration as I arrived into the capital this morning. A female cab driver, I might add - alw...
Cross-cultural communication
Some time ago, I read an interesting linguistic article called Inscrutability Revisited by Linda Wai Ling Young ("Language and Social I...
It's Teatime!
I want to talk about three things, in my very first article for New Dynasty. Learning chinese, my perceptions of concepts of personal space ...
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11 Tigers Starve to Death in Zoo Eleven rare Siberian tigers have starved to death at a zoo in northeast China over the past three months, state-run media reported Friday. The 11 tigers kept at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo, located in Liaoning Province's capital Shenyang, all died due to malnutrition, Shenyang Wild Animal... Click here to read the full story!
Nepal's Premier in Xi'an Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was on a two-day visit to Xi'an, the capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, on last Monday, 28. December 2009 and afterwards he flew to Beijing for talks with Chinese leaders for discussing further details on bilateral ties between China and... Click here to read the full story!
Green Spring Festival China’s Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, is the most important festival for the Chinese population. It begins on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month (which usually falls between January and February of the Calendar of the Occident). Traditionally, the Spring Festival is marked... Click here to read the full story!
Hot and Noisy One of the things about living in China is that you just can’t get any damn time to yourself. Wherever you go, no matter how far, there will ALWAYS be someone else there. If you climb the most distant part of the Great Wall, a little old lady will follow you all the way up trying to sell you... Click here to read the full story!
Pickpockets/Pickpocketing When I first came to Xi’an as a tourist more than a year ago, I was told “Xi’an is the pickpocket capital of China”. I like to see things at first hand, and not believe the hype, so I shrugged this off as a comment by someone who fears the unknown. Now a conscientious... Click here to read the full story!
Fantasy Club Xi'an Nightclub "Fantasy" in Xi'an from a manly, slightly drunken point of view. When entering Fantasy it seems like a regular nightclub. Of course the first thing to do is to get something to drink. That’s when you first start wondering that what this place is. Bartenders play with... Click here to read the full story!
Have you eaten yet? So, I was back in China last week, and thought I’d put in a goodwill visit to the old office - you know, to say Hi, how’s it going, oh, and if you have any spare jobs going in Xi'an etc etc… A few excited faces from behind the brain-numbing draw of Excel documents and the... Click here to read the full story!
Real Estate Price war Real Estate companies compete desperately for customers these days. Hard times for them but good for consumers. It was never that cheap to buy a house/apartment these days in Xi'an. How long it will last until prices start to raise up again? It is quite usual these days that real estate companies... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an International Women's Group Well, besides that google.com is blocked in CN (Update 25.6: Working once again :-)), there is no other negative news to announce today ;-), on the contrary: We are proud to feature the "Xi'an International Women's Group" in our next ND TV Report, right before the summer break where many... Click here to read the full story!
¡España es el dueño de la gloria! España se consagró campeón del mundo por primera vez en su historia. La Furia superó 1 a 0 a Holanda, en tiempo suplementario, en un encuentro de alto nivel futbolístico y emotivo disputado en el estado Soccer City, en Johannesburgo. El mediocampista del Barcelona, Andrés Iniesta, anotó... Click here to read the full story!
Charlie Charlie is a fellow China expat who currently lives in Chengdu. He's lived in China for more than 5 years and is an independent freelance DJ (Check out www.justcharlie.com and the website for his monthly party in Chengdu (called DISCO DEATH) www.discodeath.net) and Web Developer. He values life... Click here to read the full story!
Textile City Art District Much like Beijing 798 and Shanghai 1933, Xi'an has an art district called Textile town. The district is not an actual town but derives its name from the many textile factories built there since the 1950s. Xi’an Textile City Arts District is situated at Textile City in east Xi’an, which... Click here to read the full story!
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Howard Johnson Xi'an Howard Johnson Ginwa Plaza Hotel, a 5 star hotel situated outside the South Gate. And within viewing distance of the Ming Dynasty City Wall. t is invested by famous local Ginwa Group and managed by Howard Johnson International. Our hotel is the leading address for distinguished business and... Click here to read the full story!
Hotels in Xi'an/China Vorab, liebe Leser: Ich bin kein Hotelfachmann und auch nicht in der Hotelbranche tätig aber wohnhaft in Xi'an. Ich werde im folgendem ND-Artikel meine Gedanken und Beobachtungen bez. Hotelkonzepte in Xi'an/China niederschreiben und am Ende eine persönliche... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'ans Air Quality Index (AQI) An air quality index (AQI) is a number used by government agencies to communicate to the public how polluted the air is currently or how polluted it is forecast to become. As the AQI increases, an increasingly large percentage of the population is likely to experience increasingly severe adverse... Click here to read the full story!
Falsa Falsaĵo En ĉi tiu epoko ni kutimiĝis al falseco: Holivudo, komputilaj ludoj, televidaj reklamoj, inaj ŝminkado, ŝerco-novaĵoj, sojkazea viando, plastika ĉio....Sed nun, la ĉinoj regas pli kaj pli multe da la videbla mondo kaj ni malkovras strangegan aferon: falsan falsaĵon, mensogon pri mensogo,... Click here to read the full story!
Outliers Outliers, is the latest thought provoking book from Malcolm Gladwell. I don’t typically review books that I read that are not specifically about business in Asia here. And this book has, as it’s thesis, nothing to do with China. But there are a couple of really... Click here to read the full story!
All roads lead to Xi'an's terra cotta warriors As the full moon rose above the Drum Tower like an enormous tangerine, my wife and I stopped to catch our breath. We had just finished a 14-kilometre bike ride on top of the walls that surround the ancient Chinese city of Xi'an. It had been an exhilarating few hours, but all that jostling over the... Click here to read the full story!
Xi'an: A Market Report Since the 1999 launch of the national Great Western Development Strategy, Xi’an has grown rapidly as a major gateway to western China. With annual economic growth exceeding 13 percent, the city was spared the effects of the global financial crisis that affected China’s coastal areas.... Click here to read the full story!
Special: Miranda Ko Ko was born in Hong Kong to parents of Chinese descents. Her early years spent in the trendy yet conservative region imposed significant influence on her personal style, work ethics and morals. She attended Mills High School in Millbrae, CA and graduated with top honors in 2009. She is currently... Click here to read the full story!
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