Today marks the start of my Christmas holiday and I am flying back to the UK in a few hours. It is also the beginning of my one-month countdown to leaving Xinhua after two years of enough polishing to make Mr Muscle blush. Life in Beijing without ... ...full story at Beijing Newspeak
from Beijing Newspeak on Sat, Dec 22 2007
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