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During my recent trip to the police station to get my papers in order, my apparent lack of knowledge on the issue led the policeman to gift me a packet of information specially designed for foreigners. I tried to look past the fact that much of it was in cartoon form to glean some new visa tips.

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The leader of Taiwan’s new ruling party promised Monday to seek peace and economic engagement with China ahead of his trip to the mainland to meet President Hu Jintao.

Wu Poh-hsiung, chairman of the Nationalist Party, is making the six-day trip at the invitation of China. It’s the first mainland visit by the head of a ruling Taiwanese party.

The trip comes less than a week after Nationalist Ma Ying-jeou took office as Taiwan’s president.

Video blog #3 from my vblog collection. For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life - kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip to a park in downtown Dalian. For 50% of the journey I had no idea what we were going to be doing and the other bit was mostly just saying

Traveling by train is something you definitely need to experience if you are planning a trip to China.[...]
Trains are the usual means of transportation for Chinese people, since not everyone has enough money for a car or a plane ticket. So the normal citizen will travel by train. If you are planning a trip to China where you will travel around by train this article provides important informations.
At the railway station
Chinese railway stations are huge! They can be compared to[...]

As you might already know, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Japan a few days for an “ice-melting” trip to improve relations between the two countries:

A smiling Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao sipped Japanese green tea, played baseball with college students and declared his trip a success on Friday, wrapping up a tour aimed at warming chilled ties and drawing investment to China.

Months later, the problem of Internet addiction in China became a personal problem for me when my apartment was robbed. The police determined that the camera I lost (with 500 photos from a recent trip to Chengdu), as well as a computer and a Gerber knife had probably been pawned by local schoolboys to fund their Internet game addictions.

Health experts say tobacco consumption is hitting alarming rates in China. World health officials estimate that one-third of the male population under the age of 29 is likely to die from tobacco-related illnesses. But officials in the communist government have said the country - the world's largest producer and consumer of tobacco products - cannot afford to stop smoking. VOA's Luis Ramirez has more from Beijing.

Chinese officials have expressed interest in the role of religion in improving society, the archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday at the end of the first trip to China in 12 years by a leader of the Church of England.

While the rest of the world looks to Beijing to stop North Korea from exploding a nuclear bomb, a leading Chinese analyst says it is too late - China cannot act without doing worse harm to its own interests.