Valentine's Day in Hong Kong is big business with florists, chocolate shops, hotels and restaurants all having improved sales. Check the local listings magazines for Valentine Day's deals at the big hotels like the Peninsula, InterContinental and the Regal Hongkong Hotel in Causeway Bay, live music cabarets, aphrodisia dessert buffets and romantic dinner offers. In 2010 Valentine's Day fell on the first day of the lunar new year holiday making it a doubly busy day. © Beijing-Visitor.com Hotels in Hong Kong Hong Kong Job Search Books on Hong Kong Hong Kong Personals Tags Hong Kong Valentine
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No tomorrow for rhythmic gymnasts
BBC - Olympics18 Jan 2012 | 2:17 amTomorrow died for Britain's rhythmic gymnasts on Tuesday. A group of seven teenage girls who, with their parents' help, funded their own bid for Olympic glory, fell a minuscule fraction short of the standard required to reach London 2012 - missing their target by the sum of 0.273 marks. If that sounds small, it is. The margin between the greatest success they could have imagined, reaching their home Olympic Games, and the horror of failure after all that time and money, could scarcely have been smaller. Everybody cried. The girls, some of them lying prostrate on the floor in tears, hid behind…
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Valentine's Day In Hong Kong
2 Jan 2012 | 10:44 pmValentine's Day in Hong Kong is big business with florists, chocolate shops, hotels and restaurants all having improved sales. Check the local listings magazines for Valentine Day's deals at the big hotels like the Peninsula, InterContinental and the Regal Hongkong Hotel in Causeway Bay, live music cabarets, aphrodisia dessert buffets and romantic dinner offers. In 2010 Valentine's Day fell on the first day of the lunar new year holiday making it a doubly busy day. © Beijing-Visitor.com Hotels in Hong Kong Hong Kong Job Search Books on Hong Kong Hong Kong Personals Tags Hong Kong Valentine -
Beijing Hutong Pedicab Tours
2 Dec 2011 | 12:31 amA number of companies now offer tours of Beijing's hutong by pedicab. The narrow street's of Beijing's hutong are not really suitable for cars, making pedicabs and bicycles the best and most environmentally sound way of seeing them. Beijing hutong pedicab tours usually take in the Drum Tower, Prince Gong's Mansion, a Siheyuan (traditional Chinese courtyard house), Lama Temple and Pipe Tobacco Alley close to the Bell Tower. There is usually a stop for a drink at a hutong cafe or teahouse. A number of large Chinese tour companies offer pedicab half day and full day tours. © Beijing-Visitor.com… -
Christmas Services at Churches in Hong Kong
30 Nov 2011 | 10:23 pmWith more Christian churches than any other city in China, Hong Kong has a special Christmas atmosphere. In both Hong Kong and Macau, Christmas Day is a public holiday, though Christmas Day in not a public holiday in mainland China. Hong Kong's department stores and shops go into overdrive in the run up to Christmas and the Christmas lights of Victoria will be shining throughout December. The large number of Christian migrant workers from The Philippines are often enthusiastic church-goers. Here are a list of churches in Hong Kong with Christmas services and Christmas mass. St John's… -
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Calling Home From Beijing China
7 Nov 2011 | 8:46 amWhether you're in Beijing on business temporarily or permanently relocated to China’s capital, keeping in touch with your family back home is essential for curing homesickness. If you’re looking to call the US from Beijing, here are a few tips and tricks that will help you connect with your loved ones. How to call the US from Beijing? To call from China to the United States you have the dial the following sequence: 00 (prefix for international calls) + 1 (country code) + City code + Local Number How to call Beijing from abroad? China's international calling code is +86 while Beijing’s…
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Your Stats Have a New Home
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Reblogging is Back!
22 Jan 2012 | 1:27 pmAs we mentioned last week, you can like and reblog posts directly from your reader, which displays a stream of all the updates published on all the blogs you follow from your WordPress.com account. We’ve also brought the reblog button back to the toolbar that appears at the top of the screen when you’re logged into WordPress.com. Note that you’ll only see the like and reblog options while you’re looking at individual posts. For example, you’ll see this on the left side of your toolbar while viewing http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/read-blogs: And your… -
New Theme: Newsy
20 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pmIt’s been an extra big week in the news ’round these parts, so much so that the launch announcement of our latest premium theme seems like an extra extra good way to headline our Friday. Newsy is a versatile business and news-friendly theme that offers up to ten different layouts, four footer columns, custom link and accent colors, and a custom site header. Brand and content-focused editorial teams will love publishing with this theme. Newsy: Home Page Designed by Themify, Newsy comes with an impressive set of Theme Options that afford you a great deal of flexibility with how you… -
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
19 Jan 2012 | 6:04 pmIf you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post contains. You can even like and reblog WordPress.com content directly…
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No tomorrow for rhythmic gymnasts
18 Jan 2012 | 2:17 amTomorrow died for Britain's rhythmic gymnasts on Tuesday. A group of seven teenage girls who, with their parents' help, funded their own bid for Olympic glory, fell a minuscule fraction short of the standard required to reach London 2012 - missing their target by the sum of 0.273 marks. If that sounds small, it is. The margin between the greatest success they could have imagined, reaching their home Olympic Games, and the horror of failure after all that time and money, could scarcely have been smaller. Everybody cried. The girls, some of them lying prostrate on the floor in tears, hid behind… -
New year, new look for BBC 2012 online
17 Jan 2012 | 2:00 amFor the latest in our occasional series of guest blogs, here's the man without whom the BBC 2012 site wouldn't be what it is. Mark Coyle, who runs our 2012 online operation, explains what's changing about it as we get closer to the year's big events. Out with the old and in with the new - welcome to the new-look BBC 2012 site. Our site launched in July 2010 with the purpose of showcasing the BBC's online, television and radio content arising from the London Olympic and Paralympic Games. We've tweaked a few things since then but now, with the arrival of 2012 and the pace increasing by the day,… -
Piece of World Cup lands in Olympic Park
11 Jan 2012 | 9:39 amEvery so often I post a quick update on what we're up to - mainly to keep everyone informed of what the BBC 2012 project is doing, but also in the interests of accountability. This blog literally answers to you. So two things to mention today. First, a long-running theme: we've secured outline planning permission for our studio in the Olympic Park. This will perform a similar function to the presentation studio we used in Beijing - being at the centre of the action and with a panorama of all the main venues. The only difference here is that it will be able to accommodate simultaneous… -
2012 Olympic ticket fiasco causes concern
6 Jan 2012 | 3:59 pmWhen people ask me about the online ticketing system for London 2012 one word springs to mind. Shambles. It's a word that feels very out of place when considered alongside the rest of the project. So much has gone right for London 2012 since the city was awarded the Olympics back in 2005 - in particular the achievement in making sure that all the venues will be ready in time. Ticketing has been the one area that has appeared to lurch from one fiasco to the next. Olympic mascots Wenlock (left) and Mandeville have been busy touring the UK promoting the London Games amid ticketing fiasco. Photo:… -
Why Britain's cyclists were the real team of 2011
6 Jan 2012 | 9:54 amIn these straitened times it is vital that we make the most of what we have. It is also important that we take time, amid all this austerity, to enjoy the good bits properly and applaud those who have cheered us up. So I am going to cast my mind back to the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year show one more time and highlight a team performance that has received almost no mainstream recognition but should be up there with English football's 1966, rugby union's 2003 or the British Olympic team's 2008. Don't get me wrong, SPOTY's team of the year, the England men's cricket team, were superb in…
