On the day Canada wins it’s first Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympics, I also read that a Korean woman won gold in weightlifting, beating the heaviest Olympic weightlifter man or woman Olha Korobka. Chinese women had been dominating woman’s weightlifting but chose not to enter an athlete in Jang Miran’s weight class. IOC rules [...]
..is my old alma manta, Tsinghua University in Beijing China. This doesn’t surprise me. I know how hard it is to get into their undergrad programs. I also helped more than a few undergrad students apply to US grad schools and even though I’ve been out of China for years people still write me out [...]
At least according to a blogger over on the Globe and Mail. I saw Beijing before it was totally cleaned up for the masses. I guess that makes me lucky. Vancouver may get some of that treatment but the Police Superintendent vowed not to round up homeless people and ship them out of town.
Well it was bound to happen, people are asking for my advice and opinion on the Tsinghua School of Economics IMBA program. And even though I never applied to that program and was only in China six months, I did study at Tsinghua as an MBA exchange student from the Sauder School of Business and [...]
You can’t ban the internet, but apparently in a move to keep Chinese youth from spending too much time online, they have banned the opening of additional internet cafés. I learned this through my RSS feed from Webmaster World, but it is on Reuters. I can testify to the popularity of internet cafés in China [...]
