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Weizhou Island, located in Beihai city in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is China's largest albeit youngest volcanic island. The island faces Hainan island to the north, but it is not as well known among tourists as its neighbor.The island has a warm and humid climate all year round, with turquoise sea water and sandy beaches. Because it is less visited, the natural resources on Weizhou Island are very well preserved. (Source: China.org.cn)

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Over 500 drivers and conductors of Chongqing's public transport system participated in the comprehensive emergency drill in southwest China's Chongqing, on Oct. 28, 2014. This drill aims at enhancing the overall capability of the whole system to handle emergency . (Source: Xinhua photo)

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Photo taken on Oct. 24, 2014 shows a accelerated clarifying tank at Guogongzhuang Water Plant in Beijing, capital of China. The Guogongzhuang Water Plant has passed a test run and is able to purify water that will be transferred to Beijing via the south-to-north water diversion project. The water plant, located in south Beijing, is the first major water plant built by the city in the downtown area for the project since 2000. It is expected to provide 500,000 cubic meters of water daily to meet the demand of nearly five million residents of Beijing. (Xinhua/Yin Gang)

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Photo taken on Oct. 29, 2014 shows the sign of APEC staged in Beijing Olympic Park.(Xinhua photo)

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A man wearing mask takes photos at the Zhaolin Park in smog-shrouded Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Oct. 30, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

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A sanitation worker cleans the road in smog-shrouded Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Oct. 30, 2014. (Xinhua/Wang Kai)

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Staffers walk beside an installation artwork during the press preview of Art Taipei 2014 at Exhibition Hall One of the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Oct. 30, 2014. Being one of the most important art fair in Asia, the event will be held from Oct. 31 to Nov. 3, featuring over 3,000 quality artworks and 145 galleries from 15 countries and regions. (Xinhua/Wang Qingqin)

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A performance is staged by a cultural troupe of China's Yunnan Province at the National Theater in Myanmar's Yangon Oct. 29, 2014. (Xinhua/U Aung)

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Photo taken on Oct. 29, 2014 shows a part of the golden top of Jokhang Temple at the center of the Parkhor Street, in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. The maintenance work of golden top of Jokhang Temple has been finished recently. (Xinhua/Purbu Zhaxi)

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Jing Tian poses for COSMOPOLITAN magazine. (Xinhua Ent)

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Soldiers were preparing firework on the east bank of Chaktomouk river (opposite of the Royal Palace) to celebrate the 10th coronation day of King Norodom Sihamony. The firework resulted in miss-fire accident which killed one and injure four others.

Mountains of discarded remote controls litter the warehouse floor. In a dimly-lit room, women on plastic stools pry open the devices, as if shucking oysters, to retrieve the circuitry inside. Business is booming in the Chinese town of Guiyu, where the world's electronic waste ends up for recycling, and is set to get even better. But the industry has a heavy environmental cost. Electronic remnants are strewn in a nearby stream, and the air is acrid from the burning of plastic, chemicals and circuitboards.
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In this giant scrap-yard, so dangerously polluted that its children are being clinically poisoned, the electronic objects of desire, a million tons of them a year, are broken apart, melted down, and washed in acid to be recycled into a new flood of imports.
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But while US e-waste production has increased by 13% over the past five years, China's has nearly doubled, setting the Asian giant on track to overtake the US as the world's biggest source as early as 2017.
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A worker sorts computer circuit boards in a factory in the town of GuiyuPicture: Kevin Lee/Getty Images



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

There's my remote control! I was looking for that pesky thing ever since.

The surrounding of Olympic Stadium is almost sold!!!

1. Purple: Original premise of the Multi-purposes Olympic Stadium built in the 1960s.
2. Green: Residential linked houses sold to Taiwanese builder in the 1990s in exchange of repairing the stadium.
3. Red: Time Center up to now is still a piece of empty land.
4. Yellow: City Mall built in 2000s, one of my daughter's favorite playground.
5. Blue: Olympia City is still under construction
6. Pink: Sky Villa has just been announced recently and is said to be finished in 2017.

And can you see the little blue-top in the brown circle? It's where I live.


Linked houses


Time Center


City Mall


Olympia City


Sky Villa

Can you imagine what it will be like in 2034? And the riverside will be a prime location if it is not now.

Liu Fulong tests his homemade wooden electric car in Shenyang, Liaoning province. The vehicle Liu created weighs more than 200 kilograms, has a top speed of up to 30km/h and the power capacity to travel up to 20km after one charge, according to local media.
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Chinese motorist Cong Lu ended up in a tight spot wedged between a wall and a house after falling asleep for a second and flying off the motorway. He had been travelling home with a friend after working a night shift in Sujiatun District of Shenyang city in northeast China's Liaoning Province when he nodded off for a second. He said: 'I remember feeling really tired and the next thing I knew the car was shaking and rattling as it plunged downwards. I had a sight for a second of the building in front of me and I thought this is it, I'm going to die.' But instead the vehicle ploughed into the wall demolishing part of it and slowing the car down before it came to rest wedged between another patch of wall and the building itself.
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A man takes pictures of miniature paper umbrellas, a symbol of the pro-democracy movement, in the Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong
Picture: REUTERS/Damir Sagolj



People's Liberation Army soldiers crawl on snow during a training session at a military base in Heihe, Heilongjiang province
Picture: REUTERS/China Daily



I will now get back to bottling my Malbec

NEAT...I want one!



Ummm...sir...that's NOT a public parking space.

t2contra said:

Can you imagine what it will be like in 2034? And the riverside will be a prime location if it is not now.

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Yeah, you're right. Do you know that the river is called Chaktomouk River (four faces river) because it is the cross section of two major rivers. The left upper side river is called Mekong Leu (Upper Mekong), right upper side river is called Mekong Kraum (Lower Mekong), the lower left river is called Tonle Sap River, and the lower right river is called Tonle Basac.

The section between Upper and Lower Mekong rivers (which I circle it in red) is called Akrey Ksart. Now, it does not belong to Phnom Penh; however, there is plan to put it into Phnom Penh in year 2020. Two bridges to connect it to Phnom Penh have been planned; one crossing the Upper Mekong river and the other crossing the Lower Mekong river. By that time, the river side will become the center of Phnom Penh.

I have it on Google Map.



I think you should invest in that location if you have a chance. Will it be the financial district like the Bund or the Golden Shoe of Singapore? There will be skyscrapers in twenty years time.