Is AA for you?

Below is a list of questions, from the website of Alcoholics Anonymous, that are aimed to help you determine if you have a dependency on alcohol.

Global Village

SHANGHAI Love rat exposes letter

Omer finds his groove with culture club

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.

Drowning in drink

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.

Life Travel

Take a peak

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.

Explore the other Riviera

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.

Rivers to merge in birthday temple

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.

Life Health

IN BRIEF (Page 19)

From schoolteacher to heart-starter, it took a lot of ticker to get to the top

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.

Cutting-edge surgeon offers new hope

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.