travel

www.gochengdoo.com — A roundup of basic travel advice offered by travel and fair-trade consultant Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy of Global Nomads.

newplateaus.areavoices.com — My take on being in China for 11 months. The Good and the Bad. What's your opinion on China?

studymorechinese.com — 2 pretty amusing Chinese commercials for 7-up (with English subtitles). The video takes a little bit to get going and the spoken Mandarin gets pretty difficult/fast but keep watching. This 7-up commercial from China about the perils of Time Travel is pretty funny.

chinageeks.org — Comprehensive and detailed information from ChinaGeeks on the Wenzhou high-speed train collision. There is lots of translation from the Chinese Internet, which makes for an interesting read, but this line really sums up the whole tragedy "This is accident is a tragedy, and yet I find that my primary response to it is anger. Accidents in general are unavoidable, and they happen everywhere.

www.shanghaidaily.com — Throw away your used bullet train tickets and get your personal information leaked.

People have found that the bar code on the train tickets can be decoded by software downloaded from the Internet. Information such as passport or other ID numbers, which are partly concealed on the tickets, will then be revealed.