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		<title>Personal Banking in China:</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/banking-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OE admin Mandy asked this question the other day:
roots mentioned in another thread that the ATM card issued by his bank in China won&#8217;t work overseas. Is this the case with all banks in China? Which of the banks are most expat friendly? What are the requirements for opening an account etc?
Which do you use [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=178&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What about HK?  Teaching and living in HK?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 13:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new expat to be joined us in OE board the other day, and even though this is a China blog, I&#8217;ve decided to put my replies here.  I usually don&#8217;t consider HK to be part of China, since 100 years of British rule has change the port city into a Singapore like city [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=150&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to see in Beijing?  Beijing Part 2:</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/what-to-see-in-beijing-beijing-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a first time visitor to China, you are most likely to land in Beijing first.  Beijing has been a capitol to China for roughly 700 years since Kublai Khan&#8217;s time, so as you can imagine, there are a lot of things to see here.
The question is, given the limited time that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=131&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxis in China</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/taxis-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken a taxi in North America?  (Sorry, I don&#8217;t have taxi experience in Europe)
Ok, throw that out of the window now.  It&#8217;s not that Chinese taxi drivers aren&#8217;t as good as their North American counter parts (which are quickly being replaced by Indians in Vancouver), it&#8217;s just that the system [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=110&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warning: The dangers of China (Crime)</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/11/20/warning-the-possible-dangers-of-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can happen to you:
A Canadian Model was murdered in China not so long ago.
Please read that first, if the link is dead, read the following quote:
A trial began Monday in China for the 18-year-old Chinese man accused of murdering B.C. model Diana O&#8217;Brien in Shanghai in July.
China&#8217;s official Xinhua news agency reported that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=115&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More books for you to learn more about China:</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/more-books-for-you-to-learn-more-about-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renlingshuiyue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Last Days of Old Beijing
Good book, and I haven&#8217;t finished all of it yet.  I&#8217;ll write a review and post it on LibraryThing later.
A bit of description from Amazon:
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, facing destruction as the city, and China, relentlessly modernizes.
Soon we will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=83&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smoking in China</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/smoking-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renlingshuiyue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Smokers, rejoice, you can smoke just about &#8220;everywhere&#8221; in China, with the exception of a few public spaces, malls, museums,  parks, foreign owned stores/chains, historically sensitive areas, etc.
For those that smoke:
Don&#8217;t be an Arse.  There are millions of places you can smoke, so don&#8217;t pretend you can&#8217;t read/understand Chinese ( I think the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=70&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Earth Quake Warning from China:</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/warning-to-all-who-are-coming-to-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renlingshuiyue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some of you might have heard, there was a huge earth quake in China just a few days ago.  This was posted by the Canadian in China website:
To the Canadian Global Community,
We urge all Canadians to keep out of the Sichuan area if you are planning to travel to the region (Canadian Consular [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=30&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Kind of Clothes should you pack for China?</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/what-kind-of-clothes-should-you-pack-for-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it depends where you are going!  You wouldn&#8217;t pack the same clothes for both New York and Hawaii, right?  It&#8217;s the same in China.  China isn&#8217;t a monolithic country and it&#8217;s huge, so it has a lot of different weather patterns depending on where you are headed.
I know this will be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=28&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What to pack for Beijing Olympics?</title>
		<link>http://chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/what-to-pack-for-beijing-olympics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>renlingshuiyue</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summer in Beijing is going to be HOT and DRY.
It can get up to 40 &#8211; 50 degree Celsius during summer time in Beijing.
Pack light clothes, and bust out all your summer gear.  But don&#8217;t forget to pack one decent jacket, and one long pants in case the desert wind picks up and brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chinasurvivalguide.wordpress.com&blog=3420379&post=27&subd=chinasurvivalguide&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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