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24 Exchange RMB for USD at Pudong Airport

Please note that Chinese citizens need to show their ID card when converting currency (they cannot use their passport).

Posted by martin at 2008-06-12 17:12:14. More

23 Hard to Use Metro Instead of a Car

Why not organize a shuttle bus to the metro station from the community where you live for residents of the community? This would solve the problem for many residents and possibly increase the value of your apartment too.
Posted by martin at 2008-06-02 17:28:31. More

22 Accessibility of Public Transportation

@John

AFAIK, the taxis in Shanghai are not specifically wheelchair accessible.

When I was in Hangzhou with a guy who uses a wheelchair, we moved him in his wheelchair to the taxi door and he slid into the seat of the taxi. Then we folded up his wheelchair and put it in the boot of the taxi (it was a little too large so the lid of the boot had to be held down with a kind of elastic string).

Some taxis in Shanghai have an LPG tank in the boot and therefore the boot is pretty small (probably too small for a wheelchair).

I think you'd definitely need help from an able-bodied friend travelling with you in order to use taxis.

Regarding accessibility of subway stations, I believe each subway station has an elevator for disabled people only which goes down as far as the platform. Subway staff will let disabled people into the elevator. At ground level you need to press a bell next to the elevator door to get the attention of subway staff and it may take a while for someone to respond (since few people use the elevators). I think you would be able to use the subway, especially if you had a Chinese-speaking able-bodied helper with you.

I think it would be very difficult for you to use the buses. People would probably have to lift you up the step into the bus, plus buses are often very crowded. Buses don't have any provision for the disabled.
Posted by Martin at 2008-05-27 16:38:41. More

21 Bird view of Shanghai on Flight

Cool. Welcome to mine
Posted by Martin at 2008-03-29 02:50:26. More

20 My Site Remains Illegal in China

have a look at picidae.net, if you dont allready know about it - its a free, easy and open source way to bypass the chinese firewall.
Posted by martin at 2008-02-17 03:45:35. More

19 Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth

How do I contact the manufacturer of the Maglev?
I am president of Sidney Thermal Technologies Inc., contact me at "awtfell@yahoo.ca."

I believe that I have material that may be of significant interest to both passengers and train manufactureres

thanks for whatever you can do.

Martin
Posted by Martin at 2008-01-17 00:41:04. More

18 Experiencing Maglev Shanghai

Who do I contact with regards to the design, manufacture and construction of the MEGLEV?


My address is awtmon@yahoo.ca
Posted by Martin at 2007-07-25 01:26:04. More

17 Experiencing Maglev Shanghai

who do I contact with regards to the manufacturing of meglev trains?
thanks.
Posted by Martin at 2007-07-25 01:07:16. More

16 Rent an Apartment in Shanghai

Hi, looking for a two bed apartment, for six weeks from the start of July, in Changning area. Doesnt need to be flash, just comfortable. If you have anything suitable, email me at martinpetrie@hotmail.com. Thanks.
Posted by Martin at 2007-05-11 15:04:47. More

15 Personal Income Tax in China

http://www.law999.net/law/doc/b/1994/01/28/00076447.html

Regulation in English.

I hope that will help.
Posted by martin at 2007-04-11 22:21:01. More

14 Personal Income Tax in China

Can anyone provide a link to the official regulations IN ENGLISH ?
Not a lawyer or HR company, but the real thing.

Posted by: carsten on April 1, 2007 02:48 PM


http://www.law999.net/law/doc/b/1994/01/28/00076447.html
REGULATION IN ENGLISH
IF you wanna find resources i can try my best to help you.
MY EMAIL: peisi_c@hotmail.com


Posted by martin at 2007-04-11 22:18:21. More

13 Personal Income Tax in China

Hello,

Can anyone tell me what is the amount of tax i have to pay
if i get an annual salary of 180000 CNY. Please give me an
approximate amount that i have to pay as tax on this
salary.

Regards
vnkm23

Posted by: vnkm23 on April 1, 2007 01:35 PM


180,000CNY multiples 45% then minus 15375CNY which makes 65625CNY according the formula posted above.
Posted by martin at 2007-04-11 21:57:26. More

12 Pudong Airport Maglev in Depth

Hi Jian Shuo,

Nice info. Curiously I lived in Shanghai for a year 2002 - 2003 but never got the option to ride on the thing. We visit from time to time (my Wife's from Dalian and we have family in various parts) so one day, we will take the maglev.

Anyway, point of this: there was talk about building a magelv between Beijing and Shanghai - any news on that ?
Posted by Martin at 2007-04-06 08:35:39. More

11 Shanghai Pudong Airport to Suzhou

Hi

Some of my friends also was asking for train schedules and others, so I
just added the links at www.martin-kolinsky.com under Lifestyle and Travel.

regards
Martin
Posted by Martin at 2007-03-29 00:49:58. More

10 The Year of Pig Comes

Sounds great,
Happy New Year to you too!
Posted by Martin at 2007-02-18 08:04:18. More

9 Weekend! Weekend!

Hi!
Yes, weekend is great if you know where to go! :(((

I am new in Shanghai and will be happy to meet some english speaking friends... unfortunately around me is only chinese speaking people!

Will be happy to contact you wia martins.knipshis@gmail.com
or
my China number: 15901620541
Posted by Martin at 2006-12-12 22:21:44. More

8 2006 Asian Gaelic Games in Shanghai

It is really a pity that i read your this blog too late. Otherweise toddy i would go there to watch it.

By the way i am just seeking a english teacher who should be native english speaker for oral english in weekende.

could someone help me reccomend a english teacher?
Posted by martin at 2006-10-15 17:11:31. More

7 Living Cost in Shanghai

See comments on
http://pmgomez.blogspot.com/2006/08/on-discrimination.html
Posted by martin at 2006-09-17 02:23:17. More

6 A Car Plate = 38500 RMB in Shanghai

Hi. You have very nice website! Beautiful design.
Posted by Martin at 2006-02-19 18:11:47. More

5 Rent an Apartment in Shanghai

Hi All,

My name is Martin, I'm going to SHanghai in Sept to study @ Shanghai Normal Univ., & I'm looking for a 1 bedroom apartment that are nearby to the Uni.
Somebody have any suggestions? Price range 1500 RMB
Thanks alot
Posted by Martin at 2005-08-19 22:26:55. More

4 Thanks for your Comments

Dear Jian Shuo,

I was looking around www.bonhams.com and saw that in an upcoming auction the authorities of San Francisco are selling a gift given by to them by the Mayor of Shanghai. Bloody rude if you ask me. It is the magnificent painting Grapevine by master Zhu Qizhan. It was in the SF airport and is great. They want USD30,000, probably to spend on modern rubbish that could be painted by a chimp. If they don't want it, maybe we should ask for it back.

Disgusted.

Martin

www.bonhams.com
Lot No: 2226W
Property of the San Francisco Arts Commission, sold to benefit future acquisitions Zhu Qizhan (1892-1996): Grapevine. Monumental painting in ink and color on paper, framed and glazed in UF3/ultra-violet screened frame; the upper right with a poem of Qingteng (Xu Wei, 1521-1593), dated renxu (1982), inscribed 'painted at Meihua Caotang in Shanghai', signed 'Zhu Qizhan at the age of ninety-one', with four artist's seals reading Loujiang Zhushi, Qizhan, Meihua Caotang and xinbi zhihui.
Dimensions 140 x 53in (356 x 135cm)

Estimate: $30,000 to 50,000
Footnote:
Provenance:
this painting was presented by Wang Daohan, Mayor of Shanghai to Diane Feinstein, Mayor of San Francisco in 1983. It was installed on July 12, 1983 at San Francisco International Airport and was exhibited there for about ten years.
Since January 1980, San Francisco and Shanghai have been Sister Cities. In 1981, the Shanghai Friendship Committee, with the encouragement and endorsement from the Mayor of San Francisco, recommended to the joint committee of the Airport Commission and the Arts Commission that paintings by Shanghai artists be commissioned for the International Terminal at the San Francisco Airport. This marked the first formal association between cities in China and the United States.
Posted by Martin at 2005-05-10 19:33:15. More

3 My Site Remains Illegal in China

I wonder if it helps that you can get web space in UK for only 12 GBP (20 USD) a year.

Here: http://www.betterwebspace.com

Posted by Martin at 2004-04-17 22:00:34. More

2 Usability of Pudong Airport

Has anybody knows hotel inside the airport ?
Posted by martin at 2003-07-09 21:34:39. More

1 Webcam Set Up, Broadcasting Shanghai

i only can see black window in media player i have uploaded your page changing url in your page to my own http://freespace.virgin.net/martin.hegarty1/webcam.htm please help i am so frustrated i have been working on this project for weeks

Yours Sincerely

Martin Hegarty
Posted by martin at 2003-06-14 07:27:11. More