Dealing with rules and regulations, Chinese style, required a change in attitude for Omer Icge, a Turkish national who has lived in Guangzhou for over two years.
Some expatriate drinkers find the realities they encounter in China are too hard to face. For many of them, the country becomes the place where they bottom-out. Others, who are grappling with alcoholism when they arrive, find a whole new world of challenges to their disease here.
PATAGONIA: "Choique?" my wife, Jennifer, asks. "The Indian name for rheas," I tell her. "See, over there, like small ostriches. Two of them." "Watch where you're going!" she warns me, as our small pickup truck - with our three teenagers, Carissa, Cameron and Connor shoehorned in back - unexpectedly drifts onto the road's shoulder. I stop and grab my binoculars.
LANGESUND: Norway has a holiday region with just the right ingredients to solve a perplexing perennial problem for many families, namely where they should spend a vacation together.
The Tanzhe Temple, a well-known ancient Buddhist temple situated in the Mentougou District in western Beijing, will celebrate its 1,700th anniversary on September 9.
The eldest son of a big rural family, Dr Wu Qingyu, 55, could still hear his mother coughing as she cooked for the whole family - his father and eight siblings in a village in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
Xiaoli, 28, was born with Ebstein's anomaly - a malformation of her heart's tricuspid valve that causes it to leak. Consequently, some of the blood pumped by the right ventricle goes backwards through the valve with each heartbeat, causing her heart to enlarge.
Ji Jiali (pictured) was only several months old when she was abandoned on a roadside in Shanxi Province seven years ago. The villager who found Ji and took her home, Zhang Quanmei, noticed a strange bluish tint to Ji's lips and fingertips.
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