China Central Bank - Death of the Dollar
Date: 07/01/2009The People's Bank of China, China's central bank, has formalized its call for replacing the U.S. dollar as an international reserve currency.
The PBOC recommends a new international currency in its annual report on financial stability, issued last month.
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Help rebuild the Great Wall of China: Volunteer adventures in the natural world
Date: 12/31/2007
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Take the Slow Train Through Ancient China
Date: 09/05/2007I’m traveling through the Sichuan countryside (in southwest China) on the Jia Yang railway. This is one of the few remaining passenger steam trains still operating on a narrow gauge (30-inch wide) track.
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Date: 08/27/2007Being the only foreigner amongst the 300,000 city dwellers of Deyang, people in the street stare at me. Girls yell "hallo, hallo." Men in bars come over and fill my glass with beer which I have to swig down clean.
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Fairytale mountains and outlandish characters in the backwaters of Yangshuo
Date: 03/31/2007
The man at the food stall in the night market wasn't taking kindly to the tourists gathering around his stall. I had arrived first, folding out my camera tripod…then other passing tourists drifted over to see what it was all about. More cameras came out, accompanied by much gawking and gasping at the array of meats-snakes, rats, rabbits, dogs, snails, and birds we didn't recognize. The man, momentarily distracted by something he had been chopping, looked up-and he looked angry. "Hello," he hollered, "bye"-and he waved us off with a violent fling of his hand.
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