Two incredible photos taken back in 2009 by Zong Qin at the recently reopened Wuhan North Marshalling Yard, one of the largest in Asia, located in China’s Hubei Province.
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@broadsheet_ie Spotted at an airport in Beijing, China…easy on lads! twitter.com/shawdavids/sta…— David Shaw (@shawdavids) August 30, 2012
Oh.
Not really.
But still.
Emma Kavanagh writes:
Given out free at Blackrock Dart station, Co Dublin, this morning promoting Leopardstown Rocks.
Casting about for consumer feedback (and a PR boost) in China with its People’s Car Project, Volkswagen bring one girl’s concept to life, digitally.
This, etc.
“includes two five-star hotels, a Chinese palace, 445,000sqm of exhibition halls, a commercial zone of 264,000sq m and some 186,000sq m of serviced apartments.”
Also..
A theatre.
A shopping centre.
A sports and fitness centre.
A convention centre.
A hospital.
A school.
A bank.
A petrol station.
A train station.
A theatre.
A shopping centre.
A sports and fitness centre.
A convention centre.
A hospital.
A school.
A bank.
A petrol station.
A train station.
Plastic feet and eyes await attachment to to sex dolls at the Jiamei Plastic Toy Factory in Ningbo, China. The company sells more than 50,000 dolls in Japan and Korea each year for 100RMB (around €12) each.
Ew.
Nice.
Made 10 years ago, but gaining viral traction now, Yu Ming, Is Ainm Dom (or My Name Is Yu Ming) sketches, in a scant 13 minutes, the story of a bored Chinese clerk, who, with a leap of faith and a spin of the globe, sets his sights on Ireland, where his research tells him the language is Gaelic.
Irish Eyes on China, A Chinese Man Eyes Ireland (John Lee, Huffington Post)
Directed by Daniel O’Hara. Produced by Grainne O’Carroll.
(Thanks Miranda Wrights)
A gift from boys at Xiamen University to girls for International Women’s Day: a maxi-pad of roses.
Picture Of The Day: Roses (Ministry Of Tofu)
Thanks Sam Hickey
The Phuk?
at
“Equally, even a well educated Chinese person would probably be unable to name a single Irish person, living or dead, So – if only briefly – pity the unfortunate people in the Chinese department of foreign Affairs who were saddled with the job of planning Mr Xi’s trip here. (He’s going where next? What? To Irand. Oh phuk me. Wong, where the phuk is that?).”
Irand?
Really?
Troll extraordinaire Kevin Myers’ Irish Independent column today (not available online yet).
We need your money money, etc.
Enda Kenny with Xi Jinping (top) and Wan Jifei (bottom right), Chairman of China Council for Promotion Of International Trade at the Ireland China trade conference in the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin, earlier.
(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)