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Thursday, September 09, 2010
Kidnapped Reporter Tweets Secretly From Afghan Captivity
Safe for Work? Yes
When Japanese reporter Kosuke Tsuneoka was kidnapped by the brutal Afghan insurgent group Hizb-e-Islami Gulbuddin, he lost communication with the world. After five months of captivity in Afghanistan, during which death must have looked increasingly likely, he caught a lucky break. His captors had a new cell phone and wanted Tsuneoka to show them how to access the Internet, which they had never before seen. While pretending to help the armed militants set up their phone--Tsuneoka even called the carrier’s customer service line to get satellite data service activated--the reporter bravely snuck out two clandestine tweets telling the world he was still alive.
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
China and Japan Bristle Over Disputed Chain of Islands
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Despite recent efforts to tamp down territorial disputes, China and Japan are jostling elbows over one of their thorniest such conflicts: control of a tiny, uninhabited island chain in the East China Sea.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Traffic Girls of North Korea
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Dedicated to the world-renowned trafficwomen of the DPRK.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Impossible and Amazing Paintings by Lee Kwang-Ho
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Lee Kwang-Ho is an artist from Korea. He likes to experiment with various techniques such as scratching, rubbing of the paintbrush, and tapping, in this way he created amazing and astonishing artworks. In this post, you can see the lot of cactus paintings. Lee uses only his brush, talent, knowledge and passion to obtain awesome artworks.
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Wednesday, September 08, 2010
2011 Toyota Avalon: Easier Homelink Lets You Forget About Remotes
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The refreshed 2011 Toyota Avalon is the first Toyota vehicle - and one of the first from any brand - to offer a new, much easier-to-use version of Homelink.
If you’re not sure what we’re talking about, it’s the built-in universal garage-door opener system that’s been quite widely available in luxury cars and some well-optioned family vehicles.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Energy Entrepreneurs: Creating a zero-waste city
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In the rural Japanese town of Kamikatsu, a small-town mayor has big ambitions.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
Mameshiba 5 - Edamame
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Just as a business man is about to eat an edamame, he falls victim to the charm and wit of an adorable edamame mameshiba and its irreverently funny trivia.
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Monday, September 06, 2010
iPhone 4 South Korea debut and iOS 4.1 happening this week
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Apple’s hugely successful iPhone 4 firstly debuted in the U.S. and select European countries like Germany and the U.K., and most recently a few weeks ago in 17 additional countries including Canada.
The iPhone 4 is now set to launch in South Korea.
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Sunday, September 05, 2010
Book Review: The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves - and Why it Matters
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Over the past few months, North Korea has been been in the headlines even more than usual. A partial list includes a revelation through the Wikileaks documents on the Afghanistan war that Osama bin Laden’s money man flew to North Korea to buy weapons, the seizure of a South Korean fishing ship (again) and threatening to blow the entire peninsula to hell because South Korea accused the North of sinking one of its ships. Most recently we’ve seen Jimmy Carter travel to Pyongyang to secure the release of Aijalon Gomez, an American who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor after straying across the border into North Korea from China. During his seven-month imprisonment, Gomez was driven to such despair by the experience that he attempted to commit suicide.
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