Iron Man China This Coming Weekend in Haikou
Iron Man China is back to Hainan Island for this year's annual big event in Haikou. They call it "Asia's Ultimate Endurance Experience" and I understand that our local boy Brendan, founder of Surfing Hainan will be competing; sans surfboard we assume
On Thursday evening, Coffee World is hosting a mixer for the athletes and fans. Please do join us. Hope to see you there!
Cheers, M
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Hainan, Island Chinese New Year Holiday Hotel Rates: A Travesty And Insult To The Good People of China
Let's tell a story about how to utterly destroy the holiday plans of good, hard-working families. Your family holidays are a welcome and needed break from the daily hustle and bustle of life's routine. Memorial Day. Fourth of July. Labor Day. The Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year Season. All an important part of your life.
Now imagine waking up one morning to find that the $150 per night rate at the 5 star Newport Beach Hyatt or San Diego Sea World Marriott or the Hilton Resort Sanya was specifically priced during your family's main holiday week at an outrageous, price-gouging, insulting $1100 per night. An American would say "Whoa dude." A Chinese would utter, "Ai Ya!" The difference is: its real in China, where the spirit of a country's most important national holiday seems no more than rich man's game benefiting few, rather than building and supporting a proud, national spirit.
Back in the West, if it happened, how to comprehend and explain it? Immediately your brain cells start firing off, your mind sweeps for answers. Perhaps financial Armageddon has finally arrived. The Euro has collapsed? Another Asian currency crisis? Another 911 attack, but worse? Maybe you run to check downstairs at the grocery store and find the prices of everything went up triple and all bank accounts have been frozen. How else can you explain such a disproportionate price increase? If we wake up to news on the TV that suddenly a hotel room rate is multiplied not just by double or triple, but six to ten times the normal daily rate, we wonder on the edge of panic, "What the heck else is going on with prices of other things? It must have some other meaning too!"
Indeed, our family holiday plan is utterly destroyed. In our budget, we knew airfares would be high. We knew there won't be any discounts to snatch up.
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Hainan Cowpeas Alert Due to Pesticide Concerns
More Chinese provinces have banned the sale of cowpeas grown in south China's Hainan province as concern about "toxic cowpeas" spreads.
China's Ministry of Agriculture issued an urgent circular Wednesday concerning the safety and monitoring of vegetable production processes.
Cowpeas nationwide were tested for Isocarbophos, a highly toxic pesticide, after the pesticide was detected in Hainan-grown cowpeas on sale in markets in central China's Hubei province and east China's Anhui province.
In Jiangmen City, Guangdong Province, more than nine metric tons of toxic Hainan-grown cowpeas were discovered, 5.8 tons of which had been sold. The other 3.75 tons was destroyed.
Guangdong authorities banned further sales of Hainan cowpeas and urged Jiangmen vegetable markets to track down the already sold cowpeas.
Story at People's Daily Online
China High Speed Rails Now 3300km of Track Across China
It is remarkable to consider China's commitment and progress with regard to the country's high-speed rail system. The world is rightfully concerned about the future when oil supplies will no longer be able to supply the world's energy. Now we look at China's commitment to alternative energy (solar, wind, nuclear) and the high speed rail system which will undoubtedly serve to keep Chinese traveling between cities on the ground via high-speed rail rather than by air, burning far less oil in the process...Cheers, Mario
BEIJING, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's operational high-speed railways have exceeded 3,300 kilometers, leading the world in both length and technologies, the Ministry of Railways said on its official website Thursday.
Last year China finished two high-speed railways between Wuhan-Guangzhou and Zhengzhou-Xi'an, with an operating speed of 350 km/h. Before that, China had built high-speed railways between some of its major cities, including Beijing-Tianjin, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan, Qingdao-Jinan, Hefei-Wuhan and Hefei-Nanjing.
A number of new high-speed railways are being built and will be finished in the coming few years, of which the Beijing-Shanghai line has a length of 1,318 km and a designed travel speed of 350 km/h. Construction of the line started in April 2008 and would finish in around five years. It would cut travel times between the two cities to only five hours from about 12 hours. China's railway links had expanded to 86,000 kilometers by the end of 2009, the world's second longest only after the United States.
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Hainan Nonsense
While it is impossible to disagree that this year's Chinese New Year hotel rates were outrageous, per the fresh Shanghai Daily articles below, this information about Hainan hotel prices during Chinese New Year Week is nonsense...for example, the article states that the minimum available room prrice at the Mandarin Oriental is 18,000rmb/nite...this is nonsense, I KNOW this is nonsense, rooms were available that week at Mandarin Oriental for 6-7000rmb/nite...Chinese obsession with "face" related to money and being able to afford more than the other guy is a highly influencing and disturbing factor here.
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