“The architect behind New York’s Freedom Tower - built on the former site of the World Trade Centre - has announced that it is to construct what promises to be the world’s greenest office building,” the Telegraph reports.
Located in Gennevilliers, an outlying district of Paris, the proposed building titled “Energy Plus” will be the first [...]

According to the Telegraph, “A businessman in the desert Arab Emirate of Dubai has launched plans to faithfully reconstruct the French city of Lyon, right down to its cafés, cinemas and schools.” The 500 million euro megalopolis dubbed Lyons-Dubai will even “house a hotel school run by the institute of feted Lyon chef Paul Bocuse [...]

With the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing rapidly approaching, the Chinese government has recruited several bloggers and linguists to help ensure that the English portions of the city’s signs are properly translated and free of error.
Recently, the F-word has been popping up on many signs leaving government officials bewildered and expats amused. According to LAEM, [...]