Category Archives: China

Nuisance Value

2 April 2008 – 22:17

I get to see a lot of stupid chain letters (or rather chain emails) and I also get to see my far share of hoax letters. At least two of my friends now check with me before blindly sending on those warnings of dire things happening to your PC that Norton and Microsoft are powerless [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (0)

EC Plaza (http://www.ecplaza.net/) - B2B Portal

14 February 2008 – 17:55

Stupid - no other way to describe it. I was helping a friend and looking for some machinery. Came across a place called EC Plaza which lists many companies in China.
How stupid are these EC Plaza folks?
First I am sitting here in Saudi Arabia and inquiring for a friend in Mongolia - so I have [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific | Comments (0)

Happy New Year

7 February 2008 – 0:01

To my Mongolian friends - I hope you have a happy Tsagaan Sar.
To  my Korean friends - “say hay boke mahn he pah du say oh”
To my Chinese friends - Happy New Year.

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Korea, Mongolia | Comments (0)

More Chinese Toxic Chemicals

11 November 2007 – 23:52

The UB Post reported that the General Intelligence Agency of Mongolia believes that there is a network of Chinese smuggling toxic chemicals into Ulaanbaatar and then from there out to the illegal (and possibly legal) mining operations. The chemicals are used to refine gold and a Chinese national was arrested in UB for having three [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Mongolia | Comments (1)

More Bad Chinese Product

29 June 2007 – 10:59

Seems the Chinese are hell-bent on destroying their own markets (unlike the Indians who have at least learned to listen to their markets and try and move forward with them). In the latest saga of Chinese firms cheating on the ingredients to increase bottom-line profits, the New Your Times reports again, this time on tainted [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, General | Comments (0)

F.D.A. Tracked Tainted Drugs, but Trail Went Cold in China

18 June 2007 – 10:12

Back on May 7th this year I posted an entry on this blog about From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine which concerned the export of “a poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs [which] has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.” The blog entry originated from [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, General | Comments (1)

IKEA in Jeddah

10 May 2007 – 23:01

Tonight I went to the IKEA store here in Jeddah. The main reason for going there was for kjøttboller (meatballs) and to check out the furniture and knick knacks. I like IKEA. I like their furnishings, the simple style of them and I particularly like their knick knacks.
I have been to IKEA stores in Australia, [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Australia, England, Europe, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Sweden | Comments (1)

From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine

7 May 2007 – 3:22

The New York Times noted in an article called From China to Panama, a Trail of Poisoned Medicine by Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker and published on 6 May 2007:
A poisonous solvent sold by counterfeiters and mixed into drugs has figured in mass poisonings around the world that killed thousands.
This is something that has [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, General, Mongolia | Comments (1)

By Rail - Moscow to Beijing

13 March 2007 – 1:59

Legend Tours has a page on their website called “Train schedule in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)” which contains information about travelling by train from Moscow to Beijing via Mongolia.
One of the paragraphs of useful information for the traveller is the one shown below:
Customs & Immigration. There are major delays of three to six hours at both, the [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Europe, Mongolia, Russia, Travel | Comments (0)

You’ve Never Really Travelled Until You’ve Travelled With An Ironing Board

18 July 2006 – 11:51

’tis true. How boring international travel can be. Lots of waiting around. The same old boring things - taxis, check in counters, Duty Free Shops that are all the same no matter which country you are in and just waiting, waiting, waiting.
Liven up that next trip. Travel with an ironing board. I did!
It started in [...]

By thomo the lost | Also posted in Asia Pacific, Mongolia, Travel | Comments (0)