Nordic Chinese Newspaper was established in Stockholm on Saturday with the support of Chinese Union of all Chinese associations in Sweden. The unveiling ceremony was held on the same day with about 100 participants.
Zong Jinbo, President of the newly launched newspaper and chief editor spoke at the opening ceremony.

"As Shanghaiese I am full of honor and responsibilities to my birthplace's upcoming Expo." Shi Zhongze who has lived in Australia for over 20 years is planning his tour route of the Shanghai World Expo 2010.

"I have contacted a big group of friends, it is like a small ' Home for World Expo' tour, and the size of the tour is still growing!"

During the afternoon, the sunrays penetrated into a finely designed, east meets west style cafe, Shi as the boss wrapped up his work, and talk with Xinhua tirelessly and eagerly about his emotions to the Shanghai World Expo.

As of 2009, official figures showed there are a total of 145,000 Chinese nationals residing in Spain. The majority migrated to the south European country starting in the late 1980s. So far, 22,000 of them have taken Spanish citizenship. Although the number of Chinese nationals in Spain is much less than those in Romania, Ecuador and Bolivia, some 27,000 Chinese immigrants own their own businesses in Spain.

The development of the Brasilia Chinese company is a textbook example of the success of Chinese entrepreneurs in Latin America. With China's economic development, there is a growing Chinese population in Brazil, Argentina and other South American countries. Most enterprises generally started as small businesses. Zhaoxiao Wu, of the Brasilia Chinese Overseas Chinese Association, told us that five years ago when he first came here for business, there were fewer than 20 Chinese, but now there are at least 100.

By the time Joan Chen (then known as Chen Chong) was 17 years old, she was a movie star in China. “I was considered the darling of the country,” she said, in an exclusive interview for aiisf.org. “Everyone had a picture of me in their home.”

Joan was discovered on a Shanghai school’s rifle range – she was an excellent shooter -- by no less an authority figure than Jiang Qing, the wife of Chairman Mao Zedong. In 1975, when she was 14, the Shanghai Film Studio placed her in the Actors’ Training Program.

Although I was born in the United States, Toishan is my ancestral home. I speak a local dialect of Cantonese that is incomprehensible to the rest of China.

Toishan is a county-level city of 1 million people in Guangdong Province in southern China. I have been photographing there since 1989. It looks at first glance like many other areas: a few gleaming buildings and factories, multilane divided highways, McDonald’s, new cars and well-dressed pedestrians. It seems to exemplify wealth and economic growth.

Lin Yuanxiang is the president of the Association of Chinese Culture in Reunion Province, France. He engaged in disseminating Chinese culture and facilitating communication between Reunion and China. He persuaded the 2010 Shanghai World Expo to carry out a "Reunion Week" in the French Pavilion.

Overseas Chinese in Spain donated goods and money with a total value of 200,000 euros (272,000 U.S. dollars) to quake-torn Haiti in a disaster relief benefit evening held on Sunday to mark China's luna new year.

The evening, featuring China's traditional Lion Dance and drum performance, was held at the Madrid Town Hall and attracted some 400 guests including the Haitian ambassador.

Local officials thanked Chinese residents for initiating the event to raise fund and show support for quake victims in the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation.

The area around Taishan has wonderful Chinese takes on styles of western architecture, writes Clifford Coonan

SCORES OF Tuscan castles with elegant Rococo styling or Spanish adobes are not what you expect when travelling through southern Chinese countryside, but then, the area around Taishan is no ordinary Chinese countryside.

Mak Yuet Shan, 93, marveled at an old table that once had been used for washing and preparing Chinese vegetables. It brought back fond memories, she said.

Shan traveled by bus from Oakland on Friday with about 40 other Chinese-born senior citizens to see Marysville's old Chinatown, once California's largest outside San Francisco.

The group, affiliated with The Salvation Army Oakland Chinatown Corps and Community Center, had arranged in advance for tours of the Chinese American Museum of Northern California and the Bok Kai Temple, both on First Street in Marysville.