Aug 8th 2008 Hangzhou News Highlights
Hangzhou is China’s ‘Paradise’
What’s it like to live in a far-off place most of us see only on a vacation? Foreign Correspondence is an interview with someone who lives in a spot you may want to visit.
Casey Grimes, 23, is a native of Hampton, Va., and a graduate of Davidson College. She has lived in China almost two years and teaches English to adults at an immersion school in Hangzhou, about two hours south of Shanghai.
Read more on Macon.com
Hangzhou Bay Bridge opens economic development
Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the world’s longest sea-spanning bridge, is set to open May 1 after almost five years of construction.
The bridge links Shanghai to Ningbo in Zhejiang Province, cutting the traveling distance between the two port cities by 120 km and driving time from 4 to 2 hours, said deputy director of Hangzhou Bay Bridge project Jin Jianming.
Read more in ChinaDaily.com.cn
Alibaba & Obama - Hangzhou taxi tales
One can tell a lot about a time and place from local taxi drivers. What does their point-of-view say about their world? What does it say about our world, and the times in which we are living?
I remembered this during a recent trip back to Alibaba’s headquarters in Hangzhou. I took about a dozen cab rides on my trip, and there were two things that every driver seemed consistently interested in chatting about: Alibaba and the U.S. presidential elections.
Read more in BBlog.pl
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