Very well done cafe/tea house/bar, quiet but not boring, balcony with a sea view, a design company owns it (I think!) - it shares the premises! So the design is tasteful, and not tacky. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture and we never got aro...

Maggie Ad posted on March 13th, 2008 under: ST event | Tag: No Tags | 3 Comments »

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 »

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 »

A wood sculpture made for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will be finished in Chaozhou before the spring festival. Ordered by Guangdong authority, this wood sculpture will be sent to Beijing as a present for the Olympics. It was designed by Guangzhou A...

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

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 »

An anthology of the famous poet Chen Yanyu fom ancient Chaozhou has been published by the Chinese Poetry Publishing House recently, according to the Shantou Daily, here.
As one of the most influential poets in late Ming Dynasty in Chaozhou, Chen...

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