Chinese Matchmaker: No business like snow business
THE recent blizzard in New York taught me the importance of encouraging youth entrepreneurship.It began last Friday, at around 11.30 pm, when someone rang the doorbell of our Brooklyn apartment.The Wife peeked through the spyhole and saw an African American lad, who, in hip-hop parlance, was 'macked out to the dilly-o' with his outsize Fubu threads and a do-rag on his dreads.At this hour in our neighbourhood, we'd be suspicious of someone in a...
Chinese Matchmaker: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Women look at him a bit differently A retired sailor with an eye for the ladies has been tossing dozens of valuable gold and silver coins into the gardens of attractive women near his home in Portsmouth, England. About $70,000 worth. The 80-year-old widower would not admit he did this, but he was spotted in the act. About $35,000 worth of sovereigns and commemorative coins was found in one garden alone.Police said they didn't know why the man was throwing his money away....
Chinese Matchmaker: OFF THE WIRE
The Soviet Union's much-publicized foray into the world of private enterprise has culminated in the opening of Moscow's first pay toilet, which costs 32 cents. A Highway Patrol officer lost his job for repeatedly appearing naked at the windows of his home in Santa Barbara, Calif.To celebrate Dublin's 1,000th birthday, thousands of Dubliners got a free drink: a bottle of milk from the dairy board.A Chinese matchmaker complains that many Beijing women...
Chinese Matchmaker: We're so happy we married our own Ting Tongs,
Sunwoman
Real-life couples laugh off Little Britain's jibes TING TONG is the latest outrageous character to join Little Britain.When lonely Brit Dudley ordered a svelte Thai bride, he was more than disappointed when Ting Tong Macadangdang arrived.The lumpy, unattractive she-male was not the slender vision of oriental womanhood he had ordered on the internet. Although Ting Tong, with Dudley, right, is a caricature, the scenario has a grain of truth - the number of women admitted...
Chinese Matchmaker: China's New Revolution: Private Home Ownership
The newly built two-room apartment cost a small fortune by a Chinese worker's standards--more than 5,000 yuan, or about $1,562.The floors are concrete and required painting. The walls were bare, and there were no lighting fixtures.Still, Shen Huanshan, 58, scraped up the cash to buy the apartment. There are restrictions on any resale, because the local chemical company, his employer, subsidized its purchase, but Shen and his wife hope that someday they can pass it on to...