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

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.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

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.

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

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

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.