By Jonathan Chandler Exclusive to The Wild East The furnace season is here, along with the blessed Plum Rains, which this year have killed hundreds with unprecedented flooding and heavenly deluges. Landslides, dam bursts and ill-constructed houses topple slowly over or are just washed away. Bad feng shui and sinister omens, say the more arcane…
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Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city
By Jonathan Chandler in Shanghai Low on the Hai: Shanghai the lucky city – you’d better believe it… One of the massive construction projects for the Shanghai World Expo. Picture: xinhuanet.com The 2010 World Expo comes to Shanghai with perfect timing to avoid wipe-out inside the world-wide financial banzai pipeline. The city is splashing with…
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