chongqing

blog.chinatravel.net — Just something whipped out based on memories and hearsay. I love Chongqing, no matter how many times she does me wrong...

gochengdoo.com — The front desk girl at the hostel hung up the phone. "I have good news and bad news," she said.
"What's the bad news?" Olivia, my intrepid travel companion, asked.

www.chinadaily.com.cn — Chen Dejun, 71, lives by himself in shabby thatched cottage on a hill in Shuijiang township, Nanchuan district of southwest China's Chongqing municipality. The short and bony man said he drinks 3 to 3.5 kilograms of gasoline every month, which he buys from a station at the foot of the hill.

www.insideoutchina.com — While in Chongqing last month, I heard this story:

Bo Xilai was puzzled why Taiwan businesses shy away from Chongqing, despite the fact he has "aggressively provided preferential policies to attract investment."

www.insideoutchina.com — The Liberation Monument (解放碑)– Yes, that piteous little thing in the center – the Liberation Monument used to be the great landmark of Chongqing. Is the towering building on the left purposely trying to mock and humiliate it?