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China Watch Blog has learnt that one should replace negative thoughts with positive thoughts. When you are thinking of negative thoughts, first thing to do is, stop and take three deep breaths. Then,

Replace a thought of war with a thought of peace.

Replace a thought of anger with one of forgiveness.

Replace a thought of hate with a thought of love.

Continue this exercise at home, your working place, with your friends etc, and you will change your life.

Positive vibrations from you will start to attract positive things in your life. Keep working at it, and you will see what a difference it can make to your life.

China Watch Blog has learnt that a delegation of 40 Asian Media who were given Olympic Torch and accessories souvenirs following their visit for an an update of the preparation for Guangzhou Asian Games and Asian Paralympics Games between Oct 19 to Oct 24, faced numerous problems getting the souvenirs back home.

Souvenir given to Asian media

As it is quite a bulky box containing the souvenirs, most of the journalists tried to, much to their dismay, bring them on board their respective planes, and were faced with various problems.

One of the reporters from Singapore had a “screw driver-like” part of the souvenir confiscated by the airline he was travelling with.

Another journalist had the main Olympic torch souvenir confiscated on the grounds that it could be lighted, and posed a security threat to the airline.

Have you ever heard of a torch that cannot be lighted up?

Yours truly also wonders how those VIPs who were given similar souvenirs when attending the Olympic Games in Beijing brought their gifts home. Or were all of them confiscated and rotting in some warehouses belonging to the airlines or were they destroyed, one wonders.

Other journalists who were lucky enough to pack these torches and their accessories in their suitcases and stored in the luggage compartment did not have problems.

Travellers, whether journalists or not, should beware that if they are carrying anything that might be considered a threat to the airline’s security should not hand carry them onto the plane. Send them via the baggage compartment and avoid all the hassles.

China Watch Blog has learnt that fraudsters are increasingly improving their techniques to ensnare gullible people, especially those honest or God-fearing ones.

The latest one we came across involved an investment scam. We nearly became a victim.

Investor agrees to pay US$2 million, then comes back and says his personal attorney will not allow him to invest in our company. But he continues saying that his wife insists he invest in our company because they had agreed to do so in the first place.

Then comes the sting or the CON. The investor claims he has found a Liaison attorney in his country, UK, who is well experienced in investment funding, debt financing and overseas business activities to draft the investment agreement for him and he wants us to pay for the job.

He asks us to contact the attorney directly to do the agreement. The lawyer wants me to credit money into his bank account before he will draw up the agreement.

Once the money is in, the investor and the person who posed as an attorney will just disappear and surface elsewhere using the same scam.

China Watch Blog has picked this up and wishes to share with all of you. Do you ever stop to think about where your food comes from? The viral video campaign ‘Face Your Food’ brings together a global online community to fight for a more sustainable food industry.

The production of food has a major impact on our world. Thousands of plant and animal species are under threat due to harmful agricultural practices. Farmers across the globe are suffering because of unfair trade. The viral video campaign ‘Face Your Food’ invites people from across the globe to hold the food industry accountable for the way our food is produced.

The food industry has the power and the responsibility to make sure that the production of the food we enjoy does not harm our planet. Fairfood International, a non-profit lobby organisation, encourages food and beverage companies to live up to their responsibility and make their products more sustainable.

Lobbying multinational companies to change their production and trade methods requires tremendous public support. On UN World Food Day Fairfood launched its viral video campaign ‘Face Your Food’ to rally support.

This campaign invites people from across the world to film themselves while eating. The video is then automatically slowed down and played backwards. This faces us with the question where our food comes from. By participating in this campaign and showing your support for Fairfood on Facebook, you can join the fight for a sustainable future.

China Watch Blog has learnt that there is a debate on whether Article Submission is still effective in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) or if it is no longer necessary.

A writer at Webheaven writes that in his experience, the answer depends on the quality of the article and the information it provides. If your website receives low traffic with anywhere between 0-500 unique visits per day, you should consider article submission.

However, if your website is already gaining high traffic, with 500 unique visits per day and upwards, you would be better off keeping your content unique and submitting it to social bookmarking sites, such as Digg, Del.icio.us and Twitter.

Not many Article Submission back-links hold much weight from Google, whereas Social Bookmarking usually provides the highest quality back-link.

China Watch Blog points out that addiction can have many consequences, and one is being the destruction of relationships.

Like any addiction, drugs and alcohol can turn the nicest person into a monster. Lying, stealing, being late for appointments and cheating are some of the most common issues that destroy relationships during the life of the addiction.

Not every drug and alcohol user turns into an addict but the ones that do can damage their relationships to their spouses, children, family, friends, and co-workers/business relationships.

China Watch Blog has learnt that the renminbi, or China’s currency yuan, Monday strengthened to 6.6729 per U.S. dollar from Friday’s 6.6759, according to the data released by the China Foreign Exchange Trading System.