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We're off to Haikou this afternoon to spend the weekend covering the IronMan China event...

Cheers all, Mario

Well, we know Hainan is leading this parade...not good for the health of China's ongoing development...once again the greedy gain for themselves at everyone else's expense...Cheers, Mario

This just in from the news wires....

(RTTNews) - China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Thursday announced that property prices in 70 major cities across the country were up 10.7% year-on-year in February, faster than the 9.5% increase in the previous month. Housing prices were up 13% year-on-year in February, faster than the 11.3% increase in January, the statistical office said. Property sales in the first two months of the year jumped 70.2% compared to the same period a year ago.

Iron Man China is back to Hainan Island for this year's annual big event in Haikou. They call it "Asia's Ultimate Endurance Experience" and I understand that our local boy Brendan, founder of Surfing Hainan will be competing; sans surfboard we assume

On Thursday evening, Coffee World is hosting a mixer for the athletes and fans. Please do join us. Hope to see you there!

Cheers, M

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Let's tell a story about how to utterly destroy the holiday plans of good, hard-working families. Your family holidays are a welcome and needed break from the daily hustle and bustle of life's routine. Memorial Day. Fourth of July. Labor Day. The Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year Season. All an important part of your life.

Now imagine waking up one morning to find that the $150 per night rate at the 5 star Newport Beach Hyatt or San Diego Sea World Marriott or the Hilton Resort Sanya was specifically priced during your family's main holiday week at an outrageous, price-gouging, insulting $1100 per night. An American would say "Whoa dude." A Chinese would utter, "Ai Ya!" The difference is: its real in China, where the spirit of a country's most important national holiday seems no more than rich man's game benefiting few, rather than building and supporting a proud, national spirit.

Back in the West, if it happened, how to comprehend and explain it? Immediately your brain cells start firing off, your mind sweeps for answers. Perhaps financial Armageddon has finally arrived. The Euro has collapsed? Another Asian currency crisis? Another 911 attack, but worse? Maybe you run to check downstairs at the grocery store and find the prices of everything went up triple and all bank accounts have been frozen. How else can you explain such a disproportionate price increase? If we wake up to news on the TV that suddenly a hotel room rate is multiplied not just by double or triple, but six to ten times the normal daily rate, we wonder on the edge of panic, "What the heck else is going on with prices of other things? It must have some other meaning too!"

Indeed, our family holiday plan is utterly destroyed. In our budget, we knew airfares would be high. We knew there won't be any discounts to snatch up.

But we didn't expect to be raped in the name of national holiday spirit.

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