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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
China rebuffs human rights report
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China has rejected a new report which claims it has broken a promise to improve its human rights situation and “betrayed the core values of the Olympics.”
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Why Japanese box art is better…
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... except when it’s not. Nine astounding differences between East and West.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Will Barack Obama be the first Asian-American President?
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In fact, reading Obama’s absorbing 1995 memoir “Dreams from My Father,” it strikes me that the tropes that surround and define Obama can just as easily be read as those of another community entirely. Which raises the question: Could it be that our true first black president might also be our first Asian American president?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Eating champ savours revenge
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LOCAL eats did not prove too spicy for Mr Takeru Kobayashi, 30, who emerged the Asian champ of the Major League Eating competition here yesterday.
The 60kg Japanese downed 5.4kg of satay - which works out to 385 sticks of satay - in 12 minutes, winning the showdown against 102kg American Joey Chestnut, 24, who swallowed 4.1kg of the meat in the same time.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Robot sea bream
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Engineers at the University of Kitakyushu have developed an underwater survey robot that looks good enough to eat. “Tai-robot-kun,” a 7-kilogram (15.4 lb) robotic sea bream (red snapper) with a silicone body covered in realistically hand-painted scales, features a unique propulsion system that allows it to move its tail and drift silently through the water like a real fish.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
72 Hour Film Shootout follow up: Better late than never
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O.K.—So I know the winners were announced two weeks ago, but I just caught all of them from the website a little bit ago, and after watching them once online, downloading them and taking them to a coffee shop and watching them again a day later, and then burning them to a DVD and watching them again a day after that — I figured I had to make a post on my favorites and give out some special awards of my own because viewing them all was something I really enjoyed — and hey — I’m still within a decent amount of time from when the shootout actually ended and I figure they should endure longer than a film festival because there was a lot of Asian American sweat put into them — right?
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Lego Sport City for 2008 Beijing Olympic
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The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games is coming! If you’re lucky one in How Kong, you can see this LEGO Sport City at the Grand Century Place until August 31, 2008. The whole lego sport city includes the famous Bird’s Nest, Swimming Cube and Olympic Village. The iconic Bird Nest was designed by Ming, he took over 100 hours to complete, measuring is about 40” x 48”.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Ten Even More Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks
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What is it with Japan and weird drinks? Part of the answer lies in the love Japanese have for soft drinks — surveys show that about 40% of the nation’s citizens drink at least one soft drink every day. That’s about 50 million people!
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Girls will be girls at the Beijing Olympics - sex tests will prove it
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Suspicious-looking woman athletes participating in next month’s Olympic Games in Beijing will be forced to take a gender test, the Chinese authorities have announced.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Why didn’t I think of this?
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Like a virtual gold rush, millions of people wade into the Internet stream every day to try their luck at the electronic equivalent of panning for gold. Some of them put a video on YouTube or start a blog.
Most will not find riches or fame. But once in awhile, digital lightning strikes someone. This time, it’s Christian Lander.
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