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The latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is getting a lot of heat, and for good reason. The magazine’s attempt at making an international issue instead turned out to be a slew of photos using human beings as exotic props. Sports Illustrated Photo The two above photos were both taken in Guangxi, China. The contrast between Read More

The saga of Kim Lee and her abusive, super-star husband Li Yang has finally come to a close with a very satisfying outcome. She was awarded a 12 million RMB divorce settlement, full custody of her children, and a restraining order against her ex-husband (a first for the Beijing court system). Kim Lee has been a driving Read More

If Hunan government officials thought that simply releasing Tang Hui from her labor camp after imprisoning her there for “disturbing social order” when she demanded stricter penalties for the men who kidnapped, raped, and sold her 11-year old daughter into prostitution would be enough to make her go away, they were dead wrong. Last August, Read More

Emily Ford is a European who has been living in Shanghai for 6 months… and has decided that she wasn’t living an authentically “Chinese” life, whatever that is.So she decided to change her life for a day try to live like the locals, and she made the mistake of writing about it for a rather popular online Read More

This is for all the ladies out there. I have had massages in the states before and the masseuses are pretty aware of their client’s sense of privacy. Imagine my surprise, then, the first time I got a massage in China and she massaged my boobs. And my butt. And, you’re pretty much naked for Read More

This post is part of a series for AbsoluteWrite’s January 2013 blog chain. The theme is “13” in honor of the new year.  In a recent episode of Elementary (the great new Sherlock Holmes series on CBS), Holmes deduces a man was a gambler with a penchant for mahjong because of his obsession with the number 13. He Read More

Well, hard to believe we are already back home. I didn’t get to blog as much as I had hoped while on the trip, but I guess that’s a good thing. We were so busy or exhausted during the trip we hardly had any real relax time. So, I thought I would just do a Read More

No trip to Chiang Mai is complete without a tour of a few of the city’s temples. The city actually has over 300 temples (called ‘wats‘ in Thai), but there are four that people are specifically pointed to if you ask which temples are not to miss. Click “read more” for a run down of Read More

Thailand seems to be the hot travel destination this winter, so here are a few travel tips that I picked up. 1) Money. Most places in Thailand do not accept Union Pay. I always ask, but about 90% of the time the answer is “no.” However, there are ATMs on every street corner that do Read More

I’m pretty ticked off that I have to take time out of my tropical holiday to post about this, but as soon as I read it I knew I had to post.  China is currently experiencing the coldest winter in 28 years. Reports of homeless people freezing to death are trickling in, including at least Read More