Just got some photos from my parents. These were taken in Changping Road on the 20th April. Shantou was flooded within a few hours after a heavy rain. My dad complained about the drainage system and said it needs to be improved.

As summer is al...

Richard.H posted on May 5th, 2008 under: Living in ST | Tag: Weather | 8 Comments »

Only half an hour into our walk through the Pu, we had a group of about twenty teenage boys trailing us and shouting at ear-splitting volume. This is what it feels like to be a celebrity, I thought. This is what it would be like if I were Ben Affleck ...

ZhongYuan posted on March 13th, 2008 under: Living in ST | Tag: No Tags | 6 Comments »

By: Joanne Lau
An H5N1 related case was discovered on February 25th in Shanwei, a city to the south of Shantou. The patient, a 44 year-old woman from Sichuan province, died as a result of the disease. She had worked at a brick factory in Haifeng...

ZhongYuan posted on March 4th, 2008 under: Living in ST | Tag: Health, Shanwei | No Comments »

By: Bob Fu
A torch relay ceremony for the Beijing Olympic Games will take place on May 10th in Shantou. Yesterday the route of the ceremony was announced by the Shantou government. 208 torch bearers will carry the torch through downtown.
P...

ZhongYuan posted on March 4th, 2008 under: Living in ST, ST event | Tag: Olympic | No Comments »

By: Yamaha Gong
A ceremony to mark the “Chinese Olympic Traveling Year” will be held in Shantou on March 2nd in the square in front of Shantou city swimming pool. At the same time, one thousand bicycle-riders will take part in a bicy...

ZhongYuan posted on February 29th, 2008 under: Travel in China, Living in ST, ST event | Tag: Olympic | 1 Comment »

The zoo in Zhongshan Park will open again this month, after having been nearly doubled in size. Elephants, zebras and hippos have been added to the animal collection.
Built in 1954, it was the only zoo in east of Guangdong. There used to be over...

Martin posted on January 12th, 2008 under: Living in ST, ST event | Tag: No Tags | 6 Comments »

An opening ceremony for the Xia-Shen Railway (section in Guangdong) was held in the town of Shaxi in Chao’an on January 6, 2008. The Xia-Shen Railway is a new railway connecting Shantou and two other Special Economic Zones, Xiamen and Shenzhen. It w...

Martin posted on January 10th, 2008 under: Living in ST, ST event | Tag: No Tags | No Comments »

A stunning story out of the English-language press yesterday about the abduction and murder of a 15-year old boy here by his classmates.
Apparently, he was the son of a local businessman and the classmates intended to hold the youth for ransom. ...

ZhongYuan posted on January 7th, 2008 under: Living in ST, ST event | Tag: No Tags | No Comments »

Umi Lazim teaches English in her free time. She has got time to kill, but it is not particularly free: She is on death row in a local prison for bringing heroin into the country, and today is her 24th birthday.
If she is lucky, she will celebrat...

ZhongYuan posted on January 4th, 2008 under: Living in ST | Tag: No Tags | 1 Comment »

A Sports Park and a Sports Center were planned in the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, a circular that outlines economic and social development every five years from 1953.
According to the plan, a Sports Park will be built on east of Songshan Road in to...

Martin posted on December 29th, 2007 under: Living in ST, ST event | Tag: No Tags | No Comments »