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2/5/2012 4:06:22 PM
We’ve had an interesting little run in with a Scammer over the last few days so I thought you all might be interested in it. It’s been quiet on the scammer front for the last few months, and while a few have been caught and placed in Scammer Prison, it has mostly been online Chinese Dating as usual here on CLM. But this one is a little unique so you might enjoy hearing about it.
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2/2/2012 9:31:43 PM
I receive a newsletter called The Daily Reckoning which is put out by a company that researches and recommends international investments. I'm not really in the league of true "international investors" but I find that stuff strangely interesting, especially when the information is coming from a source that is a little on the rebel side.
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1/22/2012 4:29:45 PM
Spring Festival is here and the chaos has reached full blast, having started almost 2 weeks ago and been building up speed since then. Of course if you’re a stay-at-home type, as most Expats in China are at this time of year, the chaos going on may have gone unnoticed. But if you’re one of the gazillion Chinese or few Expats who are caught up travelling during the annual greatest human migration in human history then you’ve no doubt been caught up in the chaos at some point.
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1/1/2012 4:26:27 PM
First, on behalf of all the staff and owners of CLM and ALM we wish all members and visitors a very happy and prosperous New Year filled with joy, good fortune and especially love. Many of you have already found your perfect match here on our websites. For those still searching, or those who have just begun their search, we hope success finds you very early in 2012.
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12/25/2011 3:54:25 PM
It's been a bittersweet few days leading up to Christmas for my wife and I here in Hangzhou. We're both missing family in different parts of the world, and as good as it is to be with each other during this time, it would so much better to also be with our sons and daughters, my aging Mother, brothers and sisters, nephews and nieces, all those little grandchildren, plus other close family members or old friends.
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9/8/2011 12:53:24 AM
When is a Desperate Chinese Woman not Really so Desperate?
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8/19/2011 10:29:55 PM
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7/6/2011 4:01:55 PM
Well, here goes. I’ve been putting off writing this for too long, not because I didn’t want to write it, but because I had hoped to suggest answers to how we can best address the problems of prejudice based on ethnicity, culture or skin colour (or a combination of all 3) here on CLM. My reasons for delay have mostly to do with having raised a problem for which I have found so few solutions. The truth is I have very few answers, and the few I do have are pretty simplistic. But the best of what I have to offer has finally been put in place, and I can’t put this off any longer, so, as I said, here goes…
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5/20/2011 6:03:28 PM
Part 1 of this series drew some very cogent comments, some coated in anger or frustration, some in empathy and one in shame, and since writing the first draft of this article I have reviewed those comments and amended it accordingly. I’m going to first point out what I think the statistics I gave in part 1 do tell us, then discuss my own personal experience in China, discuss why anger does not belong in this discussion and briefly discuss why there is such a bias as apparently exists. There will be a part 3 in which I will conclude our (CLM’s) thoughts on the subject and describe what we feel might be done to help address the issue (if anything).
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5/9/2011 11:22:46 PM
I’m about to embark on a topic that has been quietly brewing here on CLM behind the scenes since we started the website, and I am not taking this step lightly, nor without trepidation. To even raise the question of racial prejudice invariably leaves me wary that, with the best of intentions, maybe I will make a misstatement, or use a phrase that was acceptable last year to refer to an ethnicity but has become insulting this year without me knowing it. However, a male member recently posed a question to us that really demands an answer and an open discussion that involves all members.
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