The document lists various websites related to topics such as British lighthouses, Chinese history, art and culture, Chinese and international news sites, blogs on technology and politics from UK newspapers, and sites providing information on Chinese language tools, country facts, currency conversion, and telephone dialing codes.

1. Favorite Sites

2. United Kingdom Light Houses http://www.uklighthouse.info Chinese Maritime Customs project http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/History/Customs/index.htm Classical Chinese Art, Calligraphy, Poetry, History, Literature, Painting and Philosophy http://www.chinapage.org Crow Collection of Asian Art http://www.crowcollection.org Asian Brush Art http://www.asianbrushart.com Chinese Culture over 5000 years http://www.china-corner.com Some of the web sites I visit ranging from British Light Houses and News Papers to the CIA World page and Modern Chinese Artists

3. SINA English is the English language destination for news and information about China. Site contains topics on Business; Technology; Sports and Life for the Chinese Mainland, Taiwan & Hong Kong http://english.sina.com/index.html Xinhua News Agency (Chinese News site) http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/index.htm Chinese Culture and the origins of Chinese characters http://www.zhongwen.com Printable Chinese calendars http://thunder.cwru.edu/ccal/getpdf.htm Contemporary Chinese art http://www.artscenechina.com/gallery.htm#HeSen

4. Chinese-Tools.com, a great site. Includes free online Mandarin courses, Chinese calligraphy studio, Chinese name translation, Chinese editor, Chinese annotation tool, Chinese dictionary, converters for pinyin, Unicode, traditional and simplified Chinese, tools to build Chinese websites, etc... http://www.chinese-tools.com Guardian UnLimited, Blogs UK newspaper's main blog site. Draws headlines from its peripheral blogs in technology, politics, games and more http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/index.html The Londonist is a metro blog, every thing in, of, and about my home town http://www.londonist.com

5. TV-reporter-turned blogger, Rebecca MacKinnon writes and speaks on the future of media in the Internet age, freedom of speech on-line, and the Internet in China http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation CNN.com International Headline News http://edition.cnn.com/ASIA CIA Country Facts Web Site https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html Conversion Web Site http://www.onlineconversion.com World Electrical Guide http://kropla.com/electric2.htm Dialing Codes http://kropla.com/dialcode.htm