Public Address | Cafe | Speaker: Foreign bodies in Beibei Jingjing https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Simon Grigg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50843#post50843 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50843#post50843

('Aliens' need to register their whereabouts within 24 or 48 hours of arriving – nobody used to bother, but it suddenly seems more important).

A pretty standard situation in most of Asia. Here in Indonesia technically we can't have anyone staying at our house without registering them with the police.…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 18:46:44 +1200 Daniel Hodson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50840#post50840 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50840#post50840 Hey Emma – our apartment block was visited by a contingent of very grim-faced PLA folks a few weeks back, and the resulting queue at the local police station was very impressive.

('Aliens' need to register their whereabouts within 24 or 48 hours of arriving – nobody used to bother,…

]]> Fri, 16 May 2008 18:11:51 +1200 Yu Guang https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50828#post50828 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50828#post50828 Fri, 16 May 2008 16:46:52 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50575#post50575 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50575#post50575 so... emma, are you an ex-pat?

your writing style seems fairly familiar! :)

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 20:18:22 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50535#post50535 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50535#post50535 All the BBC earthquake video is here.

Bonus: they finally have decent embedded Flash video instead of that RealPlayer crap.

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 14:41:29 +1200 Charles Mabbett https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50529#post50529 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50529#post50529 Nice one, Emma, entertaining and informative writing. We need more blogging out of China. I think there's been a vacuum of useful information about China in the NZ news media in the recent past but hopefully that's starting to change.

How about this Sichuan earthquake? Felt in Bangkok, Vietnam and…

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 14:22:51 +1200 stephen walker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50517#post50517 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50517#post50517 Emma,

i enjoyed reading your post.
both the topic and writing style appeal, so I hope you will be back with some more in the near future!

the Chinese government agencies' certainly seem to know how to play to a local audience. but their lack of PR skills vis-a-vis the…

]]> Wed, 14 May 2008 13:21:12 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50516#post50516 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/speaker-foreign-bodies-in-beibei-jingjing/?p=50516#post50516 Discussion from blog post.

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