ENGLISHMAN Dan Thorp from the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) in Wimbledon was recently appointed head coach of the Boris Becker Tennis Academy at Mission Hills in Shenzhen.
WALKING into Nicolas Deladerriere’s apartment in Baishizhou, I was immediately attracted to the little robots made of paper and plastic that either stood on the display shelves in his living room or on the work bench in his study.
It could be challenging for an expatriate to use a Chinese maps app, while the most popular English ones, such as Google Maps or Apple Maps, might not be up-to-date enough for users in China.
Adam Place is an inventor, musician and entrepreneur who came to China two years ago with his invention AlphaSphere, a ball-shaped instrument.
Walking along the second floor of Shenzhen Book City CBD store, one is suddenly attracted by music coming from a ukulele shop.
A magnitude-8.8 earthquake shook Chile on Feb. 27, 2010. It struck off the coast of south-central Chile and initiated a tsunami that devastated some coastal areas of the country
Geoffrey Schofield, a 27-year-old American who teaches English at a high school in Luohu District, has lived in Shenzhen for five years after getting a college degree in economics.
Troy King, from the United Kingdom, currently works as a public high school teacher in Bao’an District.
