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Beijing Sounds

January 15, 2008

No matter how good my Mandarin is, I know that the Beijing-er can always tell that I am an outsider (外地人）from my accent. I spent the best part of 2007, living out of a suitcase in Beijing, working on a documentary about the Beijing Olympics. For someone from a small country like Singapore, Beijing is a sprawling [...]

Leaning Towers of Beijing

December 16, 2007

Keel over the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Move aside, the Twin Towers of Kuala Lumpur. Here come the Twin Leaning Towers of Beijing. The new CCTV (China Central TV) building is one of the growing number of icons designed by international architects in the city of Beijing. I passed by this building almost every [...]

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