Archive for November, 2007

an old picture in a place less covered by the journalists

In front of the offices of the consultants of the President

Posted by Liu Yi on November 24th, 2007

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Hongkong model for Kosovo?

Troika ( EU + USA + Russia ) on Kosovo Status to host face-to-face between Belgrade and Pristina delegations in Brussels. It looks nothing to do with China. Ah, no, in the final press conference, we made it half about China.
Here is what happened:
There was no enough audio input any more, so I had no […]

Posted by Liu Yi on November 21st, 2007

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I start liking this city

As long as I remember, I only hear (from the French people of course) jokes about the Belgium people, plus, comparing to Paris, Barcelona, London, Rome…… Brussels for me used to be only the city for meetings in the EU buildings.
But this trip made me start liking this city.
First of all, could you imagine any […]

Posted by Liu Yi on November 21st, 2007

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I missed the train

I almost became one of the first arriving passengers from Paris to the whole new St Pancras International train station in the day of the 13th anniversary of Eurostar. I said “ALMOST’’, because I was forced to jump out from the train at the last minute by my Europe and Hongkong directors!
All the security […]

Posted by Liu Yi on November 15th, 2007

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the singles’ festival

Chinese people like festivals, holidays, and they are so good at creating comercial opportunities on the festivals.
Here a new festival becomes a big event in China:
11/11, the Singles’ Festival.
because “1″ means single comparing to “2″, so when there are only “1″s in the date, means of course only singles.
The singles will need to buy […]

Posted by Liu Yi on November 11th, 2007

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how much the petrol will cost,

I was invited again by France 24. This time the topic was about the petrol problem: The price broke 100dollars!
We had talked from the keeping falling value of the dollar until the protection of the enviroment.
Whether it’s a good news or not?
How much it will probably reach as highest price?
Whether we should ask the Asian […]

Posted by Liu Yi on November 7th, 2007

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