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...
Chinese Matchmaker: MEMORIES OF A `LOST' COMMUNITY OF CHINESE PEOPLE
When Song Wong was a child, it was her job to light the incense in respect to the kitchen god, the outside god, the front door god and other deities each morning and evening in the tiny Buddhist temple on the second floor of the building next to her home on Santa Rosa's Second Street.Song Wong Bourbeau, now 85, stood before the temple altar again Friday, in the gallery of the Sonoma County Museum, where it was reconstructed for the current historical exhibit. It was covered...
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: 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....