Jim James

Founder UnNoticed Ventures Ltd
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Blog by Jim James

Beijing Diary 3rd August 2008 On my 39th birthday when I landed in China on 25th January 2006 I had conspired to build my empire quickly and easily in readiness for the Olympics and then to make my fortune in these two upcoming weeks. I was very much mistaken on all counts. The Opening Ceremony find...
03.08.08 08:20 PM - Comment(s)
Over lunch an English friend of mine asked whether I had noticed anything different about how I was being looked at by Chinese people; I wasn’t sure that I had but it was one of many comments on the rising tension that is building up in Beijing as Chinese see foreigners as undermining their national...
25.04.08 03:10 PM - Comment(s)

By FRANK CHING
Business Times - 16 Apr 2008

NEW, liberalised regulations governing the work of foreign journalists were introduced by China last year, but it is clear that there are many problems in the implementation, some of which are being deliberately introduced by officials, including the polic...

16.04.08 07:57 AM - Comment(s)

119 days to the Olympics

April 11, 2008

There are only 119 days to the Olympics and in truth it has been been a surprising couple of months since I last wrote from Beijing. The nasty pollution that chokes pedestrians on the streets of Beijing has been matched by the nastiness of the atmosphere surroun...

11.04.08 02:45 PM - Comment(s)
Becoming a father is at once a uniquely personal and yet almost universal experience when our daughter was born at 03:30 on Saturday 27th October, in a procedure that dates back to Roman times, and which is still a breath taking event. new baby If ever a couple want to discover a level of shared and mixed ...
05.11.07 08:57 PM - Comment(s)