Blog categorized as Uncategorized

‘It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way,’ says psychologist Rollo May, but getting lost isn’t a good strategy for a marathon, especially one in the tropics, and on Saturday 2nd December I couldn’t sleep until 2 o’clock on Sunday morning , my legs twitching and ...

"Environmental renovation is a long-term task and we need to uphold the spirit of the Long March in the 1930's of the China Red Army to overcome every difficulty," says Chief Beijing Olympic organiser Liu Qi. But it would appear that most people in China don’t see the parallels between sav...

‘We are all insects on the back of motherland’ intones a Mongolian proverb, and over 5 days I was to learn why the 2.7m people could have believed themselves to be powerless victims at the mercy of the harshness of nature and their vengeful neighbours, but also to find a wonderful energy and emergin...

I have just finished a three week holiday which included 2 weddings on 2 continents and passed the flight time by reading ‘The Lexus and the Olive Tree’ which talks of the gathering strains of globalisation and how economies must adopt, or be forced into, the ‘golden straightjacket’ of economic libe...

Much like the Marathon flame figures at the Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Centre, EASTWEST is taking on the appearance of being in the running for business in time for the Olympics. This week we concluded the first press briefing without external assistance and received enquiries from companies ...