What a clever way to make complicated and essential statistics user friendly. The BBC hit it out of the park with this program. For anyone interested in global poverty and the inequities between the haves and the have nots, Hans Rosling’s demonstration is must see TV. For more information on Vicky Collins visit http://teletrendstv.com.
Posts Tagged ‘China’
War and Remembrance 3
Posted: November 16, 2010 in Human Rights, Inspiration, Judaism, Law and Order, Media, Middle East, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, Terrorism, United States of America, Violence, War, WomenTags: 9-11, Abraham Lincoln, Al-Qaeda, America, Bill Clinton, China, Civil War, Communism, England, France, Genocide, George Bush, Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust Museum, Iraq, Islam, Jews, John F. Kennedy, Kosovo, Kurds, Lt. Colonel Allen West, Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt, Radical Islam, Russia, Serbia, Stock Market Crash, Taliban, Vietnam, Washington D.C., Winston Churchill, World Trade Center, World War II, WWII
My conversation with Ben Coker, Jr. of South Carolina continues following my Veterans Day post. In response to your letter to me, I very respectfully offer the following: I agree with you on the point you made about unity going into WWII. We had been seriously violated by Japan’s blatant and flagrant attack on us [...]
Travelling China’s Silk Road
Posted: November 18, 2009 in Business, China, Economy, Inspiration, Media, News, News and Views, Politics, Random Thoughts, Television, Travel, United States of America, WomenTags: CBS News, China, Katie Couric, Silk Road, Terry McCarthy
Wonderful story from CBS News about entrepreneurship along the Silk Road in China. Chinese policy towards America may not be changing much but its people embrace our capitalism and long to compete with us. The Silk Road is open for business! http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5701582n For more information on Vicky Collins visit http://teletrendstv.com.
Vacation in Afghanistan
Posted: July 7, 2009 in Africa, China, India, Inspiration, Middle East, Midlife, News, News and Views, Olympics, Random Thoughts, Travel, WomenTags: Afghanistan, Bamiyan, BeadforLife, Beijing, China, Delhi, India, kampala, Olympics, Travel, Uganda, Vacation, Wedding Anniversary
One year ago I was in Beijing, China for a three month gig working at the Olympics. In November 2008 I headed to Kampala, Uganda again to do more television production work for BeadforLife (http://beadforlife.org) then immediately after a quick trip to Delhi, India for a wedding. No exotic destinations this summer but I’m hungry for [...]
The Truth About China
Posted: September 25, 2008 in China, Olympics, TravelTags: Beijing, Beijing Olympics, China
The truth, my friend Song and I agreed, is somewhere in between. When people see things from completely different points of view, more than likely the reality lies in the middle. Song and I were having lunch towards the end of the Olympics in the International Broadcast Centre cafeteria and I asked her what she planned [...]
Olympic Countdown
Posted: July 18, 2008 in China, Olympics, Random Thoughts, TravelTags: Beijing, China, Olympics, Random Thoughts
The Olympic Games are less than three weeks away and Beijing is spiffing up. When you have a workforce of over a billion people you can get lots done in a short time. Every day the city transforms itself more and more. Signage has gone up from one end of town to the other. You drive [...]
Ginger and the Great Wall
Posted: July 14, 2008 in China, Olympics, Travel, WomenTags: Beijing, China, Great Wall of China, Olympics, Terra Cotta Warriors, Xian
There were two places on my must see list on this journey to China and this past weekend in an Olympic sightseeing marathon I visited both. On Saturday friends and I flew to Xian for a whirlwind day trip to see the Terra Cotta Warriors and on Sunday three of us visited the Great Wall [...]
Hen hao (very good) taxi ride
Posted: July 9, 2008 in China, Olympics, Random Thoughts, TravelTags: Beijing, China, Olympics, Taxi
Mr. Li gets the good Olympic citizen award. I left my new Nike sweatshirt in his taxi following a ride to the Emperor Hotel. After a couple days of searching my Chinese colleague tracked him down and learned he had delivered the item to the hotel thinking I was a guest there. When she told him otherwise, he retrieved [...]
For the love of Panda Bears
Posted: July 6, 2008 in China, Colorado, Endangered Species, Natural Disasters, Olympics, Travel, WomenTags: Add new tag, Beijing, Beijing Zoo, China, China Earthquake, NBC, Nightly News with Brian Williams, Olympics, Panda Bears, Pandas International, Suzanne Braden, Wolong
Sunday in Beijing and I feel the city is mine. The sky is a beautiful blue (yes, it does happen) and the sun is out. In two and a half weeks I have found a French bakery for cappuccinos, a restaurant I love called Hutong Pizza and I rode the subway. I’m making my way [...]
