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Toys are mightily important for your pet dogs.   Not just for puppies, but also for adult dogs.   Dogs of all ages love to chew, cuddly and chase their toys.   This is especially so when you have to leave your dog along at home for extended period of time, their toys become their alternate sources of companionship.   For younger dogs, toys serve to train and enhance their coordination and social skills.   The trouble with many dog owners is that they view toys as secondary expenditures that... Read Full Story

  Chinese worldwide celebrated the Lunar Year of the Ox on Monday, 26 th January 2009. The Spring Festival as it is sometimes called, can last for up to fifteen days until the ful moon on 9 th February 2009. Read Full Story

Change is in the air; whether you a Democrat or a Republican, whether you are an American or a Chinese, or whether you even care. This is a digress to my usual postings on Chinese culture and history. This is not even my own writting.  I feel we are living in history. In this time of immense uncertainties, I hope to capture a snapshot of our timeline as well as to provide inspirations as we go about facing challenges in our daily lives.  - Linus. President-elect Barack Obama’s victory... Read Full Story

Chinese Taikonaut Zhai Zhigang has very recently completed his first spacewalk for China, making China the third country to do so, after the former Soviet Union and the United States. Space exploration has always been a fascination for ancient civilizations and the ancient Chinese was no different.   Wan Hu - China first space explorer Read Full Story

Few areas of business attract as much attention as entrepreneurship, and few aspects of entrepreneurship attract as much attention as a business plan. Increasingly, business plan competitions are springing up across the world, partly helped by the marketing gimmicks of business schools. Indeed, judging by all the hooplas surrounding business plans, you might want to ask yourself what happen to all those eventual winners, many of those MBA graduates would no doubt went on to work in investment... Read Full Story

Painting of A Hundred Children Ancestral worship is the underlying principle of Chinese ethics. Therefore, the birth of a child, in particular a son that will carry on the family’s name, is regarded as an extremely fortunate event. As such, there are many customs and rituals to encourage child birth especially among couples who are yet childless, unable to conceive or who have no luck with male infants.  Read Full Story

A typical Chinese Almanac All ancient civilisations have their own slant of calendar record and almanacs in particular have been in existence since antiquity across the globe. The Chinese Almanac or “通胜”, is a book, or table, containing forecasts and outlook for the year.   Read Full Story

Chinese opera for the Hungry Ghost Festival By now you should probably be aware of the 2008 Summer Olympics to be held in Beijing, China, this coming August. However, there is at least another event going on in (and beneath) China during August.  Every year, during the seventh month of the Chinese Calendar, it is believed that the Gates of Hell will be opened and all Hell beings (well, not nearly all, only those well-behaved ones) will be set to roam freely on Earth for a month. Read Full Story

A 1000 year old engraving marked the site of the Battle of Red Cliff in today's Hubei, China. Written by Luo Guanzhong ( 罗 贯中 ) in the late Yuan and early Ming period (the exact period is not known ), the Romance of the Three Kingdoms , continue to be the most popular classical novels in Chinese Literature all these years. The period of the Three Kingdoms, from late Eastern Han to the Western Jin Dynasty (169-265 AD) lasted about ninety years, and was an extremely chaotic period in... Read Full Story

The Chinese Book of Poems Shi Jing ( 诗经 ) or The Book of Poems is one of the most significant headstreams of Chinese Literature. Complied over a period of almost 500 years from the Zhou Dynasty to the mid-Spring and Autumn Period, it contains 305 poems and was part of the Confucius’s curriculum in his time.  Read Full Story