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Friday, May 30, 2008
Chinese premier debuts on Facebook
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, whose swift appearance at disaster sites has made him one of the nation’s most popular figures and earned him the nickname Grandpa Wen, now has a profile on Facebook.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Nepal abolishes monarchy
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Nepal’s newly elected leadership changed the country from a monarchy to a republic just before midnight Wednesday, a historic move that ended about 240 years of autocratic rule in the country.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Digital Short: The Japanese Office
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Ricky Gervais presents the inspiration for The Office on SNL’s Digital Short.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Think Gas is High? Try Europe
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American motorists are understandably grumbling over skyrocketing gas prices as the summer travel season approaches. But their pain hardly registers against the rage afoot in Europe these days. Fishermen, truck drivers and farmers are threatening to bring entire economic sectors to a halt with protests against crippling fuel costs. The wave of angry action is expected to spread further across Europe in coming days, despite efforts by political leaders to feel the pain and figure out how to alleviate it.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
Korea Shows Home Energy Smarts
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In six months of living in South Korea, any sign of clothes dryers has eluded me. So bring on the airing undies and the soggy bottoms, right? Well, despite having no - or at least relatively few - clothes dryers, Koreans are both perfectly dry and dignified, with seldom so much as a scrap of clothing hung to dry in view of the neighbors.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
China boycotts Sharon Stone films after star blames earthquake on bad karma for Tibet
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Film star Sharon Stone has set off a storm of fury across China after she suggested the deadly earthquake that killed as many as 80,000 people was bad karma for Beijing policy in Tibet.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Will a Pinoy play Bruce Lee on Broadway?
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History just might repeat itself. Two decades ago, Cameron Mackintosh and company searched the world over for a girl who would play Kim in Miss Saigon, only to end up finding in the Philippines not just the Kim in the person of Lea Salonga but the other actors in the musical which turned out to be a megahit not just at the Royale Drury Lane in London’s West End where it opened in 1989 but in other parts of the world.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Shorter Work Hours Aren’t So Bad, Koreans Find
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Koreans put in the longest work hours among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) members. But some Korean companies are finding out that cutting back on brutally long hours for their employees actually isn’t so bad for their bottom line.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
Asian speakers needed for sexual health hotline
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Can you speak English and an Asian language fluently?
The Asian Society for the Intervention of AIDS is in need of bilingual volunteers to take calls for their sexual health hotline.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008
ASIAN POP - The Ides of May
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With Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in full swing, Jeff Yang wonders whether the Asian American community is out of date, out of touch - and running out of time to bring the next generation of Asian Americans into the mix.
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