 Bird's Nest
What can you make of a communist country that embraces capitalism? Or a one-party state that’s more ethnically diverse than America. Name another country with more than one billion people that still has manicured urban parks, tranquil palaces and prairies just as vast as those found in the U.S. and Canada. China has it all. Travelers planning to attend next summer’s Beijing Olympics will discover that one of the world’s oldest cultures now boasts some of Asia’s most impressive hotels, office towers , entertainment districts and transportation networks. |
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 Service With A Smile
Once the preserve of tai tais and tourists, high tea now attracts Asia's leading power brokers to its finest hotels There's nothing laid back about Frank S. Yu. At age 44, he's the managing director of BTA Asia, an aggressive architectural firm with extensive business in China. But thrice each week Yu often can be found taking afternoon tea with clients in one of Hong Kong's luxury hotels. "Afternoon tea allows me to meet someone I don't know well in a comfortable, neutral setting," Yu explains. |
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 Olivia & Queenie Friday night in Shenzhen. Queenie, my assistant, and I are accompanying two American women – one of whom has lived here for a few months and the other who has been here once before. They are nice ladies and game. The only real issue that I have is that they are determined to eat food that is not indigenous. For crying out loud, we are in CHINA, not Italy, but they are determined. |
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 Torch Bearer in Beijing This week the Olympic Torch is in southern China, slowly making its way along a circuitous route that will end in Beijing for the start of the Olympic Games on August 8. Greeted by thousands of cheering, flag-waving people, the Olympic flame is the symbol of pure athletic competition.
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