Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.