Shanghai’s air quality deteriorated significantly in the first half of 2011, said a report released by the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection […]
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Beijing is the most expensive city on the Chinese mainland for expatriates, ranking the 20th highest in the world for costs of living, according to an annual report released by Mercer, a US-based consulting company […]
Tokyo is still the world’s most expensive city to live in and Oslo and Osaka still make the top five, but the Worldwide Cost of Living 2011 survey just released from the Economist Intelligence Unit also revealed some dramatic changes in the last year […]
More than 60 percent of China’s residents cannot afford an apartment and the high property prices in the cities are curbing the nation’s urbanization process, experts said […]
The emergence of negative growth in the total working-age population, which some demographers predict will happen as early as 2013, is likely to contribute to slower economic growth and higher inflation, according to analysts […]
According to Gallup’s 2010 global wellbeing survey, only 12 percent of people on China’s mainland judged themselves to be thriving, the same level as countries such as Afghanistan and Yemen […]
Back in 2009, China became the world’s largest automobile producer with the world’s largest automobile market, selling over 8 million units […]
Shanghai had 22.21 million residents by the end of 2010 – 14.12 million with registered residency and 8.3 million migrants who lived in the city for more than six months […]
Only 6 percent of Chinese people see themselves as happy, despite the government’s efforts to improve the population’s sense of happiness, according to the results of a survey announced recently […]
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Living in China: Capoeira?
It’s interesting to see that, even though I’m living 16,469 kilometers away from home (or 10234 miles or 8893 nautical miles), there is always something here and there to bring you back that feeling of “being at home”. In Portuguese, we would call that feeling Saudade.