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By Pete, April 29, 2008 4:53 pm

Shanghai pictures are now online. Macau pictures should be up imminently. I’m so looking forward to finally getting these pictures done.

[Shanghai]

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By Pete, April 26, 2008 10:03 am

Zhouzhang (otherwise known as the “Venice of the Orient”) pictures are now online. Now that I’m finally firing from all cylinders, I figured what took me so freakin’ long to get these pictures done – they were all sitting on my external hard drive (and I can’t work on them unless I have the external plugged in) and I guess that’s enough of a barrier – whoops.

[Zhouzhang]

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By Pete,

I’m going to try to honor my self-mandated Sunday deadline to finish all the pictures from Asia, here’s Suzhou. Only Shanghai, Zhouzhang, and Macau left!!!

[Suzhou]

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By Pete, April 5, 2008 10:04 am

So I was looking at my Flickr stats this morning and I noticed from my referrers that I actually made Gadling’s picture of the day TWICE!!

Gadling is a pretty neat travel blog that I read on a regular basis. Check it out if you <3 traveling. =)

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By Pete, March 21, 2008 1:39 pm

Excerpts from a NY Times article:

When a caterer working for the United States Olympic Committee went to a supermarket in China last year, he encountered a piece of chicken — half of a breast — that measured 14 inches. “Enough to feed a family of eight,” said Frank Puleo, a caterer from Staten Island who has traveled to China to handle food-related issues.

“We had it tested and it was so full of steroids that we never could have given it to athletes. They all would have tested positive.”

In preparing to take a delegation of more than 600 athletes to the Summer Games in Beijing this year, the U.S.O.C. faces food issues beyond steroid-laced chicken. In recent years, some foods in China have been found to be tainted with insecticides and illegal veterinary drugs, and the standards applied to meat there are lower than those in the United States, raising fears of food-borne illnesses.

Along with this current Tibet situation, this “coming out party” might not be what China had expected this summer.

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By Pete, March 10, 2008 8:14 am

Beijing pictures (there were way too many of them) are now online. You can view the gallery by following the link to http://petetam.com/productions/beijing/.