Where do I live? how do I pay my bills? Where can my children go for
sports? Where will I buy a bike? What do other non-working spouses do all
day here? Where can I volunteer? How can I learn Chinese?

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I'm getting the feeling that all travel articles about this part of the world are excessively flowery and starry-eyed. "mysterious adventurer from Hong Kong?" "three smiling sirens?" But I found this article about a village near Danba interesting anyway.

By the way, "Lamu" is the name of what seems like 1/3 of Tibetan women in this area.  Another third seems to be named "Zhuoma."  "Da Lamu" means "Big Lamu."  The "Da" (Big) is added to differentiate her from her little sister "Xiao Lamu" (Little Lamu).

If I want to travel from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province or Shanghai to Tongling, Anhui Province or to Dafeng, Jiangsu Province .... what should I do? Is there any train to there or which could be the closer train station?

 Thanks a lot in advance,

I wish to place photos in the "treehouse" web when I write about a place . Please let me know how to do it?

Starting THIS FRIDAY Sept 8, ShanghaiExpat holds Open Bar at Bonbon! Ask where “M section” is located (somewhere at the 2nd floor) - there is a private room provided only for ShanghaiExpat members. With UNLIMITED drinks combined with our own VIP seating area that views upon the crowd.

Get there early if you want to have a seat!!!

Ticket: 8:30pm-1am, 100rmb (male), 80rmb (female)
After 1am, it's 60rmb plus 1 standard drink.
All standard drink 25rmb.
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Address: 2 F, YunHai Tower No. 1331 & 1329, Huai hai Road
Nearest Subway Station: Line 1, Chang Shu Rd

LHASA, Sept.1 (Xinhua) -- Nyingchi Airport, the third civil airport in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, began operations when a Boeing 757 landed on Friday.

The plane left Chengdu, capital of Sichuan Province, at 7:30 a.m. and arrived at Nyingchi Airport an hour and a half later, according to flight captain Wei Yiqiang.

"The weather was fine, so the flight turned out to be much less difficult than the test flight," Wei said.

ELECTRONIC LOUNGE SEPTEMBER 2006

DJ JOE (Germany)
MC MICROPRINT (USA)

ELECTRONIC LOUNGE SEPTEMBER 2006

DJ JOE (Germany)
MC MICROPRINT (USA)

dub/dubstep/drum'n'bass

Date and time
September 15th 2006
Friday start 9 PM (open end)

Location
Le Cafe Paname(e) - French Cafe
Kehua BeiLu 143 (opposite the SOHO building)
Blue Carribean Plaza 2nd floor

Entrance
FREE

CONTACT
13018236092

SPECIAL PROMOTION
French Sandwich 10 Yuan
Beer 10 Yuan

presented by
platypusmusic.cn - chengdu underground music

Where do I live? how do I pay my bills? Where can my children go for
sports? Where will I buy a bike? What do other non-working spouses do all
day here? Where can I volunteer? How can I learn Chinese?

Put on by Shanghai Community Center and ShanghaiExpat. Join us at
these New Expat Orientation workshops helping those new in Shanghai.
Come hear what longer term Expats have to say and learn from their
experience. This FREE workshop will cover many day-to-day issues
concerning Living and Working in Shanghai. Shanghai 1-2-3 will be held
in three locations across the city so come to the one most convenient

JAM SESSIONS IN SICHUAN
Chengdu Daily News Group
By WARREN RODWELL

It does not matter whether you are a foreigner or a local Sichuanese. As long as you have a musical instrument of any description, and you know how to play a simple tune, then Gina Simm and Lou Conover would love to get together for an impromptu jam session. Neither are performers by profession, but both regard music as a significant part of their secondary lives. Stationed for the next ten months at Sichuan Agricultural University at Ya an not far from Chengdu, this couple from New England in northeast America takes special pleasure and interest in what they call fiddler music, a style traditionally learnt by ear. There is no requirement at all for potential jammers to be able to read sheet music.
 
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