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Mr Iron

Friday, 4 July 2008 3:29 P GMT+08
It is not often a story with a title like "Liugang No 2 converter put into production" attracts my attention. Especially from India. But something caught my attention.

How to avoid arrest and talk great Inglish.

Tuesday, 1 July 2008 8:35 A GMT+08
China kindly publishes English language newspapers to help us idiots to understand them. Occassionalllllly they get the English rite. Not oftun.

Fanta-stic Names

Friday, 29 February 2008 2:29 P GMT+08
Chinese people?s names are endlessly interesting.

Ignore Foreign Languages

Tuesday, 29 January 2008 5:12 P GMT+08
They love their red banners round here. As I've mentioned before, everywhere you go you can see long thin red banners full of propaganda and other nonsense. No one notices them any more. If they ever did. But this one caught my eye.

Zhuang Banner

Saturday, 1 December 2007 6:44 P GMT+08
Liuzhou is in Guangxi. Although Guangxi is often referred to as a 'province', technically it isn't. The official name is Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. This is because this is home to China’s largest ethnic minority, the Zhuang people.

Snail writing fire

Monday, 13 August 2007 11:20 P GMT+08
Only days after telling you of the record number of fires breaking out around Liuzhou, I spot yet another. This one is more interesting from a gastronomic and a linguistic viewpoint, however.

Flying Chinamen

Monday, 30 July 2007 2:32 P GMT+08
According to my local newspaper, the lads in the Liuzhou branch of the People’s Liberation Army are learning some new skills. There seems to be a shortage of aircraft at the moment, so instead they are learning to fly under their own power.

Speaking in Tongues

Saturday, 4 February 2006 5:21 P GMT+08
Among the many pleasures of life in Liuzhou is the endless opportunity to be baffled in a variety of languages. I really don't know how many different languages are spoken around here, but a good illustration came the other night when there was a lar