There is a new KATE BUSH album out since a few weeks or something. Interesting sounds & feelings - it is all about snow. Here is a track together with .....? I dont tell you - but if you know POP MUSIC you will know who the male singer is - have a nice weekend etc. Please be noted that this video is not an official KATE BUSH video - is just made by a fan - you can see there are some parts of a CHANEL ad inside etc - anyhow it doesnt matter - see you next week:
After seeing this: Who are they ? They are spanning a time of several hundred or even thousand of years (Rome burning until 9/11) - THE DEVIL (666) !
Sunday, January 8, 2012
Important Info regarding China Visa application in Hong Kong
Hope you all had a pleasant move into the year 2012.
If you are in Hong Kong and want to apply a China Visa please read the following points carefully - this is some rather new findings after I have got information from a lot of people doing China Visa applications here in Hong Kong:
1) If you are a traveller and want to apply for a F - Visa here in Hong Kong just forget it, as long as you cannot provide a passport full with old F - Visas (business Visa). The max you will get will be a L - Visa (tourist Visa) with a max of 2 entries. Makes no difference if you make your application with a local travel agent or directly at the Commissioners Office.
2) If you are a Hong Kong permanent resident and you want to apply for a multiple entry F - Visa, better do not try through the Commissioners Office (surely this is the cheapest application), as long as you cannot provide a lot of extra documentation like business registration, investment visa, invitation letters + a long history of F - Visa. You can be dissapointed by again only getting a tourist visa for 2 entries. Why is that so ? Do not ask me, but it seems the Chinese Government want "crack down" on business people abusing the F - Visa + then really working in China, without proper
permits. Actually this is logical and understandable as too many people have abused this in the past: Under a F - Visa just go in / out once a month - and avoid all other necessary permits in China, like residence permit, work permit & surely PAYING TAX (one important point).
3) If you are a business people in HK and need a multiple F - Visa for lets say 6 month or 12 month, there is only one chance to get a F - Visa without any hassle: Not to apply through the Hong Kong Commissioners Office (of the PRC) for that Visa. If you have enough F - Visa history, this is workable with some agencies who are applying for you on the other side of the border like in Shenzhen or Guangzhou. This is totally legal, but expensive (around HK$ 2,000 or more).
One more thing is very important:
Do not "foul play" regarding your Visa applications. It is the year 2012 and also China has the right to protect themself against people cheating them into the mainland to do illegal business. Just like in the most countries of the world - just obey the rules of immigration & business - it is the best you can do.
If you are in Hong Kong and want to apply a China Visa please read the following points carefully - this is some rather new findings after I have got information from a lot of people doing China Visa applications here in Hong Kong:
1) If you are a traveller and want to apply for a F - Visa here in Hong Kong just forget it, as long as you cannot provide a passport full with old F - Visas (business Visa). The max you will get will be a L - Visa (tourist Visa) with a max of 2 entries. Makes no difference if you make your application with a local travel agent or directly at the Commissioners Office.
2) If you are a Hong Kong permanent resident and you want to apply for a multiple entry F - Visa, better do not try through the Commissioners Office (surely this is the cheapest application), as long as you cannot provide a lot of extra documentation like business registration, investment visa, invitation letters + a long history of F - Visa. You can be dissapointed by again only getting a tourist visa for 2 entries. Why is that so ? Do not ask me, but it seems the Chinese Government want "crack down" on business people abusing the F - Visa + then really working in China, without proper
permits. Actually this is logical and understandable as too many people have abused this in the past: Under a F - Visa just go in / out once a month - and avoid all other necessary permits in China, like residence permit, work permit & surely PAYING TAX (one important point).
3) If you are a business people in HK and need a multiple F - Visa for lets say 6 month or 12 month, there is only one chance to get a F - Visa without any hassle: Not to apply through the Hong Kong Commissioners Office (of the PRC) for that Visa. If you have enough F - Visa history, this is workable with some agencies who are applying for you on the other side of the border like in Shenzhen or Guangzhou. This is totally legal, but expensive (around HK$ 2,000 or more).
One more thing is very important:
Do not "foul play" regarding your Visa applications. It is the year 2012 and also China has the right to protect themself against people cheating them into the mainland to do illegal business. Just like in the most countries of the world - just obey the rules of immigration & business - it is the best you can do.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Happy New Year !
Think about the good & bad things of 2011 & lets hope 2012 will be more good things than bad ones. Cheers. No more posting for the rest of 2011 !
A classic here - Dinner for one - original version:
A classic here - Dinner for one - original version:
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Foshan again !
This story just coming up - even if already some weeks old. It really seems Foshan is quite a special place full of aggression. Please read here:
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Sex-in-car driver arrested for murdering spotters
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Sex-in-car driver arrested for murdering spotters
By Pan Zheng | 2011-12-22 | 
ONLINE EDITION
ONLINE EDITION The driver who killed one worker and injured three others after they saw him having sex in the car has been officially arrested for murder though he said he felt the victims were robbers, the Guangzhou Daily reported today.
The man surnamed Jiang, 32, admitted that he was having sex with two prostitutes in his car parked on a road in Foshan City, Guangdong Province on the night of November 23.
Prosecutors said their affair was spotted by six young men who just finished their work in a nearby factory. They saw the trio in the car, looked at them for a while, and knocked at the car door out of curiosity.
Jiang was furious and got out of the car to argue with them. Their quarrel was stopped by one of the workers.
As the group walked away, Jiang went back to his car and charged at them in revenge. One worker surnamed He was crushed to death on the spot and three others were slightly injured.
A security camera recorded the whole scene. The video footage showed a white car speeding toward the four workers without braking and vanished immediately.
Jiang surrendered to the police on December 3 and argued that he thought the victims were robbers and tried to flee in haste.
But one prostitute surnamed Mao told the police that Jiang smiled after hitting them. His defense was not accepted by the prosecutors.
The man surnamed Jiang, 32, admitted that he was having sex with two prostitutes in his car parked on a road in Foshan City, Guangdong Province on the night of November 23.
Prosecutors said their affair was spotted by six young men who just finished their work in a nearby factory. They saw the trio in the car, looked at them for a while, and knocked at the car door out of curiosity.
Jiang was furious and got out of the car to argue with them. Their quarrel was stopped by one of the workers.
As the group walked away, Jiang went back to his car and charged at them in revenge. One worker surnamed He was crushed to death on the spot and three others were slightly injured.
A security camera recorded the whole scene. The video footage showed a white car speeding toward the four workers without braking and vanished immediately.
Jiang surrendered to the police on December 3 and argued that he thought the victims were robbers and tried to flee in haste.
But one prostitute surnamed Mao told the police that Jiang smiled after hitting them. His defense was not accepted by the prosecutors.
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Absurd that just today I have received a GROUPON offer for a 1 night stay in a Foshan hotel.....
please click here !
Until now nobody signed on that offer - but this offer only need 2 people to sign on.
Not so sure if this is the perfect travel location.
Saturday, December 24, 2011
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU !
Just have a moment of peace & silence - enjoy that music & thank you very much for reading my blog.
It is Christmas now - and here is a story about some good-hearted chinese people !
Sometimes maybe you, my readers, think that I am so negative about China & the chinese People.
This is not the case. The case is that I am against all kind of unjustice, if this is in China or anywhere else in this world. As I am living (almost - as I am living in Hong Kong) in China since more than 13 years (including 5 years in Shanghai) I have learned a lot about people, traditions etc.
In my opinion the speed of China's economic development is much too fast for most of the people.
Out of this some very strange, irritating & wrong (bad) behavior has been developed by a lot of people:
Greed ! Wrong Ambitions ! Envy !
As Christmas is around the corner please see this video / story about a helping crowd in Wenzhou, most probably saving the life of a little child.
This is from here (including photos & video) click here: chinasmack
This is not the case. The case is that I am against all kind of unjustice, if this is in China or anywhere else in this world. As I am living (almost - as I am living in Hong Kong) in China since more than 13 years (including 5 years in Shanghai) I have learned a lot about people, traditions etc.
In my opinion the speed of China's economic development is much too fast for most of the people.
Out of this some very strange, irritating & wrong (bad) behavior has been developed by a lot of people:
Greed ! Wrong Ambitions ! Envy !
As Christmas is around the corner please see this video / story about a helping crowd in Wenzhou, most probably saving the life of a little child.
This is from here (including photos & video) click here: chinasmack
Crowd works together to lift car to save child
December 9th morning 7:25am, at the corner of Lane 40 Hangbiao Road in the city of Wenzhou, a child was run over and trapped under a car. With the SUV caught in the dilemma of not being able to go forward or back, someone shouted “lift the car!” Immediately over 10 people who had gathered around “one, two, three” used their collective strength [and lifted up the car]. The frightened child was carried out and unhurt. These people who helped did not know each other but their action both moved and warmed those at the scene and this city. Wenzhou people used action to once again demonstrate the “place of warmth” is a title fully deserved.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Christian Bale - Not welcome in China anymore !
Please read here from THE STANDARD. Actor Christian Bale has embarrassed the Government - in clear words he will never ever get any visa anymore. Besides this be aware that there seems to be a certain kind of new visa policies in general. Making it more hard to get F visa (business visa) to force business people to apply for Z visa (work visa).
But wait - you are HK permanent resident, foreign passport holder, running a company in Hong Kong & need to go several times a month to China to meet your suppliers:
Why shall you apply for a Z visa ? I have reports from people now they suddenly only get L visa (tourist visa) for 2 entries - but they are not tourists - isn't that odd ?
Another question related to that is:
How is the Hong Kong SAR Government supporting this sort of business people ?
Is there any chance that there will be some help from the Hong Kong Government ?
Do they know about this practise at all ?
IMPORTANT: When you apply China Visa through your travel agency, make sure that you need a F visa either 6 month or 1 year with multiple entry. It seems some travel agencies cannot guarantee this, others can.
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Oscar-winner faces visa ban
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Beijing has pulled the red carpet from under the feet of Christian Bale, the Oscar-winning actor who stars in China's latest box- office hit, after he tried to visit a detained dissident.
The foreign ministry yesterday accused Bale of "fabricating news" after the Hollywood actor made international headlines last week when he tried to visit a blind lawyer-dissident being held under house arrest.
The British actor, who was in China to promote his Nanjing Massacre film The Flowers of War, was stopped last Thursday on the outskirts of the village in eastern China where the activist Chen Guangcheng is being detained.
Asked by reporters if China was embarrassed by Bale's actions, foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said: "I think it is the relevant actor who should feel embarrassed instead of the Chinese side.
"The Chinese side will not welcome him to make news in China," Liu added, suggesting that Bale would not be allowed back into the country.
Bale, describing Chen as a personal "inspiration," invited a CNN crew to accompany him on an eight-hour drive from Beijing to the village in Linyi district, where he was stopped by guards.
Chen, who exposed abuses in the "one-child" population control policy, has been under house arrest since September 2010.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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At least you can see how advanced China Intelligence is: Bale took an eight hour drive from Beijing to a village & they were waiting for him already !
But wait - you are HK permanent resident, foreign passport holder, running a company in Hong Kong & need to go several times a month to China to meet your suppliers:
Why shall you apply for a Z visa ? I have reports from people now they suddenly only get L visa (tourist visa) for 2 entries - but they are not tourists - isn't that odd ?
Another question related to that is:
How is the Hong Kong SAR Government supporting this sort of business people ?
Is there any chance that there will be some help from the Hong Kong Government ?
Do they know about this practise at all ?
IMPORTANT: When you apply China Visa through your travel agency, make sure that you need a F visa either 6 month or 1 year with multiple entry. It seems some travel agencies cannot guarantee this, others can.
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Oscar-winner faces visa ban
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Beijing has pulled the red carpet from under the feet of Christian Bale, the Oscar-winning actor who stars in China's latest box- office hit, after he tried to visit a detained dissident.
The foreign ministry yesterday accused Bale of "fabricating news" after the Hollywood actor made international headlines last week when he tried to visit a blind lawyer-dissident being held under house arrest.
The British actor, who was in China to promote his Nanjing Massacre film The Flowers of War, was stopped last Thursday on the outskirts of the village in eastern China where the activist Chen Guangcheng is being detained.
Asked by reporters if China was embarrassed by Bale's actions, foreign ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said: "I think it is the relevant actor who should feel embarrassed instead of the Chinese side.
"The Chinese side will not welcome him to make news in China," Liu added, suggesting that Bale would not be allowed back into the country.
Bale, describing Chen as a personal "inspiration," invited a CNN crew to accompany him on an eight-hour drive from Beijing to the village in Linyi district, where he was stopped by guards.
Chen, who exposed abuses in the "one-child" population control policy, has been under house arrest since September 2010.
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
unquote
At least you can see how advanced China Intelligence is: Bale took an eight hour drive from Beijing to a village & they were waiting for him already !
Monday, December 19, 2011
From the Neighbours: Kim Jong II is dead
Please see the footage from North Korean TV - announcement of the death of Kim Jong Il. Is this all PROPAGANDA - who knows ?
And here some street scenes after the announcement:
I am a little bit puzzled, as per my information this Mr Kim was a brutal dictator - and they are weeping for him like that ? Maybe they are afraid of what comes after him.
Some info here about the people's life:
Read here: north-korea-hunger-crisis
And here some special info:
And here some street scenes after the announcement:
I am a little bit puzzled, as per my information this Mr Kim was a brutal dictator - and they are weeping for him like that ? Maybe they are afraid of what comes after him.
Some info here about the people's life:
Read here: north-korea-hunger-crisis
And here some special info:
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