Mesh Beijing

Mesh Beijing

Mesh, one of Beijing's top night spots, is located inside Opposite House, a 99 room hotel which is part of a large high-end shopping development in Sanlitun called The Village.

Mesh has a reputation as one of Beijing's most gay-friendly bars.

The Opposite House is easy to locate right next to 3.3 shopping centre in Sanlitun.

Mesh (theoppositehouse.com)
First Floor
The Opposite House
11 Sanlitun Lu
Building 1
Sanlitun Village
Chaoyang district
Tel: 6410 5220

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Bomb Shelter Bar

Bomb Shelter Bar, Beijing

The Bomb Shelter Bar in the basement of the Red Capital Residence is a bar with a difference.

Waitresses in People's Liberation Army uniform serve up delicious cocktails and audio visuals consist ing of Mao era propagandist opera.

This literally hole in the ground bar is a little hard to enter (see image below) but once down the steep stairs you have transcended into another, earlier world.

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Red Capital Residence
9 Dongsi Liutiao
Dongcheng District
Beijing
Telephone: 8403 5308

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Dragon Boat Race Season 2013

Dragon Boat Race Season 2013 端午节

It's Dragon Boat Festival (Duānwǔ Jié) season soon (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month).

Dragon Boat races will be occurring all over China including a Dragon Boat festival in Shanghai and similar events in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Some of Hong Kong's popular Dragon boat races are held in Stanley, though the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Carnival takes place off the East Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade in Victoria Harbour from 21st to 23rd June this year.

The 2012 event drew over 400,000 spectators who watched 5,000 athletes compete in teams from 21 countries.

The big event is the Lee Kum Kee IDBF Club Crew World Championships for men and women's teams including juniors, seniors and even cancer survivors' teams.

Dragon Boat races are popular in Hong Kong where there are estimated to be around 50,000 active paddlers.

Prior to this, the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival (Tuen Ng Festival) will take place on 12th June at various locations including Aberdeen, Discovery Bay, Stanley, Sha Tin, Tai O on Lantau, Cheung Chau and Tai Po.

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Centro in the Kerry Hotel Beijing

Centro in the Kerry Hotel Beijing

Located in the luxury Kerry Hotel in the foreign embassy area of the Chinese capital, Centro is right up there as one of Beijing's top night spots.

Centro's motto is "Beautiful People Serving Beautiful People" and this stylish bar on Level 1 of the hotel draws the city's celebrities for its award-winning cocktails and live jazz acts. Happy hour is between 5 pm and 8 pm though Centro is open 24 hours a day.

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Centro (shangri-la.com)
No 1 Guanghua Road
Beijing
100020
China
Beijing
Tel: 86 10 6561 8833 ext. 42

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Modernista

Modernista, Beijing

Modernista Old Cafe and Tapas bar is quickly earning itself a reputation as on of Beijing's top night spots.

Modernista is an art deco themed live house with DJs, live acts including blues, funk, Dixieland and jazz plus film screenings and open mic comedy events. There have also been photography exhibitions and a mahjong evening.

Wash down your tapas with a fine selection of beer, whiskey and absinthe.

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Modernista (www.facebook.com/modernistabj)
Baochao Hutong 44
Dongcheng
Beijing
Tel: 0136 9142 5744

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Haze Nightclub Beijing

Haze Nightclub Beijing

The fairly recent Haze is one of Beijing's top nightclubs. Haze is a trendy duplex: two floors, bar and cafe on top and basement dance floor below.

Haze specializes in techno, nu-disco and house with frequent visits by the world's top DJs plus its own in-house professionals.

Haze is located in the Guomao district of the Chinese capital on Guanghua Lu.

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St Joseph Seminary Church Macau

St Joseph Seminary Church Macau 聖若瑟修院及聖堂

The baroque St Joseph Seminary Church in Macau was built by the Jesuits on Mato Mofino hill between 1746 and 1758.

After the Jesuits were expelled from Macau in the 18th century by order of the Marquis of Pombal back in Portugal, the building was taken over by the Lazarists (Congregation of the Mission).

The church is approached via a flight of granite steps leading to the central door under a "broken" arch.

The interior of the church is lavishly decorated with the dome reaching 19 meters.

The church holds a holy relic of a piece of bone from St. Francis Xavier, who was active as a Jesuit missionary in Goa, Macau and later Japan.

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St Joseph Seminary Church
Rua do Seminario, Macau
Tel: 853 8399 6699

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Beijing Police

Beijing Police 人民武装警察

The Beijing police force has a long history. The Beijing Police Academy was founded in 1901 on the Japanese police model and had Japanese trainers. Before then local, poorly trained police police were paid for out of the public coffers.

Nowadays Beijing's police force is under the control of the Ministry of Public Security.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) is China's national police force (with the exception of Hong Kong and Macau) and it operates Public Security Bureaus, akin to police stations in other countries but with many more powers throughout China.

Ministry of Public Security police wear blue uniforms and have been armed since 2006 with a locally made 9mm double-action revolver.

The People's Armed Police is another arm of China's police force (with the exception of Hong Kong and Macau) and is a paramilitary gendamarie, somewhat on the lines of Italy's Carabinieri, the Guardia Civil in Spain and the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Portugal.

PAP policemen wear olive green uniforms and are armed with pistols and carry a whistle (see photograph below).

Visitors interested in the history of Beijing's and China's police force should visit the Beijing Police Museum in the Foreign Legation Quarter.

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