Chinese Dating: `Banquet' a feast of sweet humor
AS the sweetly funny The Wedding Banquet begins, things are Peking-roast-ducky for Gao Wei-Tung (Winston Chao). The young Taiwan-born, New York City-based businessman has American citizenship and a happy relationship with Simon (Mitchell Lichtenstein). Back in Taiwan, though, mom and dad wish their son would get started with a Chinese son's principal social responsibility: Get married and come across with grandchildren, preferably male. Gao Wei-Tung can't summon what it...
Chinese Dating: Independent on Sunday: Observatory 2004
The patients of a saint Who'd be a GP? These, courtesy of Pulse magazine, are some of the witless out-of-hours calls doctors received: On Christmas Day, from a Hampshire patient: "I'm on antibiotics. Can I wash my hair?"; 3am call from Kent: "How many calories are there in prawns?"; from Dorset: "There's no food in the cupboard for Sunday lunch"; London: "My fridge is...
Chinese Dating: LUFTHANSA, CHINESE FORGE CLOSER TIES
After four years of negotiations, and nearly five decades of patiently establishing relations, West Germany's Lufthansa is beginning to see real fruits from its China endeavors.The latest is agreement on a joint venture that will in time do complete aircraft overhauls for Chinese and foreign carriers from a base in Beijing. In what may not be an entirely coincidental development, the German carrier has also just won a prized non-stop route from Beijing, something others have...
Chinese Dating: TOPICS TODAY
GLENN Sommers, of Ettalong, has clarified for Topics why there are no rubbish bins on the platforms of Sydney city railway stations, as reported last week. "Police had the bins removed because of the potential terrorist threat of having bombs planted in them," he said. DAMIEN Cross, of Norah Head, has pointed out an example of warning labels that state the blindingly obvious. Frozen fish in individual plastic wrappers: "Remove plastic before placing in...
Chinese Dating: Evening Mail: OFF BEAT
A CHINESE dating agency has staged a matchmaking meeting for celibate people to find a platonic partner ...