I should’ve written earlier, but I actually visited Shantou in January (08!) for a week - a whirlwind of meals and visits and one night of hard drinking. It was for my friend Henry’s wedding. I never actually made it to the wedding - had...

Maggie Ad posted on March 13th, 2008 under: Shantouer, ST event | Tag: Friends, Maggie | 1 Comment »

Five coaches from Shantou were selected to participate in the Beijing Olympics. Three of them are sailing coaches from Shantou Sports School, including Chen Wenbo, Yu Yanyan and Du Ruojia. The other two are Huang Miaohua who teaches swimming and Chen ...

Martin posted on January 10th, 2008 under: Shantouer | Tag: No Tags | No Comments »

Mai Huang, a disabled boy from Chaozhou, is now cycling around the country in 220 days to promote the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, according to Shantou Daily here.
Mai was injured in his lower back at the age of sixteen. The injury affected the n...

Martin posted on December 29th, 2007 under: Shantouer | Tag: No Tags | 2 Comments »

Yi Meizang, a 65-year old man from Xinan of Chenghai, has drawn a big map of the three cities in Chaoshan by himself.
Yi loves poetry and earns his living by writing spring couplets for other people. In order to provide a reference to people who...

Martin posted on December 29th, 2007 under: Shantouer | Tag: No Tags | No Comments »

TeoChew International Convention Held
According to Shantou Daily, about 2,500 overseas TeoChew people from Chaozhou and Shantou gathered in Sydney on November 3rd 2007, to attend the 14th TeoChew International Convention. China Radio Internation...

Martin posted on November 14th, 2007 under: ST on the Web, Shantouer | Tag: No Tags | 2 Comments »

Coming home can be weird. Especially when its to a place you know youll never quite understand.
I lived in Shantou for 3 years, from 2003 until 2006. Last year, I lived in Beijing. After a year there, I moved back to Shantou. As a foreigner, Bei...

ZhongYuan posted on September 12th, 2007 under: Shantouer, Living in ST | Tag: No Tags | 8 Comments »

My eight year old daughter was born in Shantou and then adopted to the United States when she was just a baby.   She is such an intelligent child, and started asking questions about her birth city when she was just three years old, wanting to know e...

Amy Eldridge posted on July 27th, 2007 under: Shantouer, Visitors | Tag: Family | 6 Comments »

Despite not being able to write about the following things, it has been an interesting and eventful week:
Two (unconnected) friends close to suicide (not so fun)
A fist fight
A crazy English school (not mine though!)
Great life...

Maggie Ad posted on April 20th, 2007 under: Shantouer | Tag: No Tags | 2 Comments »

Just a quick notice. Maggie and I will be in the BBC “Have you say” programme about Chinese New Year. I’ve blogged this in my blog. It will be fun to watch it (or listen).
How is the new year atmosphere out there in Shantou? Th...

Richard.H posted on February 17th, 2007 under: Shantouer | Tag: BBC, CNY | 5 Comments »

Congratulations to my ex-workmate and good friend, Cathy Jiang, for her wedding on 18 Dec 2006! They live in Beijing now but came back for the ceremony. In the photo they are playing games inflicted on them by the host of the meal - usually the best...

Maggie Ad posted on February 15th, 2007 under: Shantouer | Tag: culture, weddings | 1 Comment »