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Train derailed in Liuzhou, 4 dead, 50+ injured.

Wednesday, 29 July 2009 1:08 A GMT+08

A train from Xiangfan in Hubei Province to Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province, derailed at 4:22 a.m. in Liuzhou killing four and injuring over 50.

Rising Damp

Saturday, 4 July 2009 5:19 P GMT+08

It's a bit damp round these parts.

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As they never tire of telling me, the Chinese invented the magnetic compass. They did so because they were lost. While it pains me to generalise, I can honestly say that I have never met a nation of people who have no idea where they are.

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Memories Are Made Of This

Sunday, 17 May 2009 3:39 P GMT+08

Someone asked me earlier today, What is your favourite memory of China?

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River Deep Mountain High

Thursday, 16 April 2009 3:19 P GMT+08

We've been hearing a lot about Qomolangma the last couple of days.

san ba games

Sunday, 8 March 2009 7:36 P GMT+08

Today is International Women's Day (san ba, for short). Yesterday, somewhat bizarrely, I was invited to join one group to help them celebrate.

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It's Not Fare! #2

Monday, 2 March 2009 8:10 P GMT+08

The locals are complaining.

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slow train comin'

Monday, 12 January 2009 3:40 P GMT+08

As a follow-up to my post yesterday, here is a picture from the local rag showing part of the line to buy tickets at Liuzhou railway station, yesterday.

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It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry

Sunday, 11 January 2009 9:35 A GMT+08

Normally this weekend would be considered to be the beginning of what has been described as the greatest mass movement of humanity in world history.

Duck Hunting

Tuesday, 23 September 2008 6:04 P GMT+08

At the weekend, I took myself off to Nanning, the capital of Guangxi. It?s about three hours down the road by bus. En route, we cross the Tropic of Cancer ? yes it?s marked on the highway. The reason for my journey was twofold ? to see my dearest fri

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Tackier

Wednesday, 23 July 2008 12:51 A GMT+08

I had just finished posting the last entry when I came across this horrendous news. Now, I am seriously upset. But first, let me take you back.

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Migrant Deaths

Friday, 28 March 2008 5:11 P GMT+08

More information is coming to light about the traffic accident yesterday in which ten people died. All the dead and injured were passengers in the van which collided head on with a coach. No one on the bus was injured.

A Travel Tale

Thursday, 28 February 2008 1:50 P GMT+08

Here is a touching little story from the depths of what is universally known as "the Spring Festival snow disaster" as reported in China Daily.

Cabbage Tolls

Sunday, 24 February 2008 12:18 A GMT+08

It is impossible to travel by road in China without running into one of these every few miles.

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Guangzhou Railway Station, January 2008

Monday, 4 February 2008 10:29 A GMT+08

Here are a few shots taken in and around Guangzhou Railway Station in the last week or so.

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Fantasy Train

Sunday, 3 February 2008 8:37 A GMT+08

Do they think we are all mad? Do they really expect us to believe this nonsense?

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Hot air in Freezing China

Friday, 1 February 2008 4:58 P GMT+08

The whole country is paralysed by the worst weather in 50+ years. Half a million people trapped in one railway station. Millions more elsewhere. But don't worry. The Premier, Wen Jiabao has it all sorted.

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Travel Disaster

Monday, 28 January 2008 2:25 P GMT+08

I’m sorry to go on about this, but it is cold. I’m told that this is Guangxi’s coldest winter since 1951. I wasn’t around then. I didn’t exist. So I have to believe them.

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Yawn

Sunday, 27 January 2008 4:52 P GMT+08

Random Photograph No. 7

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so far away from home

Thursday, 24 January 2008 11:51 A GMT+08

As ever at this time of year, China is on the move or about to be.

Crash Landing

Friday, 18 January 2008 2:28 P GMT+08

I'm often asked, by both Chinese people and by other laowai, why I have stayed in China so long. I rarely give the correct answer. I claim that I am waiting for the statute of limitations to run out or some other joke answer, but now I can reveal the

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Photographic Failure

Wednesday, 16 January 2008 10:14 A GMT+08

At the weekend, I went off for a trip into the wilds of north Guangxi. It was a pretty boring business trip, but the worst thing was the freezing cold! Too cold to take any pictures! Can someone please invent a heated camera!

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Line Dancing

Monday, 10 December 2007 12:57 P GMT+08

I have, on occasion, been described as ?negative?. A scandalous libel! I am merely healthily cynical. And, only occasionally, something occurs which fails to justify my cynicism (for a moment or two). I then smile happily (for a moment or two).

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Well Travelled Water

Saturday, 27 October 2007 7:42 A GMT+08

One thing I forgot to mention in my recollections of my recent travel was the astonishing liquid accompaniment to what the British Airways staff jokingly referred to as "a meal".

Take me on a trip

Friday, 26 October 2007 1:45 P GMT+08

Around 23,000 km in less than two weeks. By car, bus, train, boat and plane.

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