My passport

Hooray to the Chinese embassy

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August 14th 2007
I'm all set with the visas to China. Yes, exactly, it's visas, the multiple. With my Russian passport, I need a visa to enter China and another one for Hong Kong. Both visas are issued by Chinese embassy, but mine had a slight complication. At first we thought that getting the visas would be a piece of cake. We gave it to some random shop in China town who ran to New York with our passports to ... read more

Asia » China

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more