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Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends

(via www.pinktentacle.com) 2 days ago

Rabbit-kun garbage bag + friends

Meet Rabbit-kun, a plastic trash sack with pink eyes, an X-shaped mouth, and a pair of bunny ears that double as handles. Designed by Tokyo-based creative group MAQ, Inc., Rabbit-kun aims to inspire a more responsible ...

Tags: japanese, people, tokyo, group, life, home, series, free, online, children, cute, art, collection, peace, winner, beach, activist


5 Americans Are Arrested for Protest in Beijing

(via www.nytimes.com) 3 days ago

Chinese authorities arrested five Americans on Tuesday after they spelled out "Free Tibet" with blue L.E.D. lights near the National Stadium.

Tags: chinese, beijing, free, arrested, protest, tibet


Kwaito in Beijing

(via www.danwei.org) 3 days ago

Live South African music from Mafikizolo (see video below), CAFCA Band & Moretheto featuring Afro-zee dance troupe.

Tags: video, music, beijing, live, free, dance, band


The 2008 Olympics: One World, Countless Nightmares

(via www.8asians.com) 5 days ago

The 2008 Olympics:  One World, Countless Nightmares

Okay, so what's the real count during these 08 Olympics? I'm not talking about the medal race between China & the US, or how many golds Michael Phelps has rack up. I'm talking about the count of human rights violations.

Tags: china, people, chinese, world, us, 2008, love, beijing, government, single, media, women, international, president, games, free, foreign, olympics, internet, court, global, rights, game, protest, human rights, trial


Japanese & Their Bum-Washing Toilet Seats

(via www.alafista.com) 8 days ago

Japanese & Their Bum-Washing Toilet Seats

Here's an interesting survey on the Japanese hot water bum-washing toilet seat usage.

Tags: japanese, life, free, female, internet, water, problem


The O-Bon Yasumi

(via japanvisitor.blogspot.co...) 9 days ago

お盆休みIt's O-Bon season in Japan. This is the time of year when souls of the dead are said to return to the family home, and, traditionally, people return to the family home to pray for those souls' repose.

Tags: japan, japanese, people, chinese, tokyo, english, home, free, family, language, yahoo, cars


K-popped! attends High School Musical: The Ice Tour

(via k-popped.com) 9 days ago

K-popped! attends High School Musical: The Ice Tour

Hello friends, guess what Orchid and I were up to this afternoon? We went to Disney's High School Musical: The Ice Tour show at Stadium Putra, Bukit Jalil!Premium items: The box of popcorn costs RM10, while thecrushed ice flavoured...

Tags: us, song, show, fans, school, food, free, family, summer, concert, book, rain, tour, high school, energy, basketball


American protesters taken away in Beijing

(via news.yahoo.com) 10 days ago

American protesters taken away in Beijing

Chinese security forces dragged away nfive U.S. pro-free Tibet protesters who blocked the entrance to a northern Beijing park on Wednesday, breaking up the latest ...

Tags: chinese, 2008, beijing, american, free, olympics, tibet


The CCTV Olympic extravaganza

(via www.danwei.org) 11 days ago

The CCTV Olympic extravaganza

The essay is by Ann Condi who has extensive experience working inside Chinese state media. You can read a previous essay by Condi on Danwei: Self-censorship: the 2,000 pound rhinoceros on the dining table.

Tags: china, new, people, chinese, world, us, song, 2008, love, show, group, beijing, single, tv, life, media, popular, singer, english, live, party, free, games, foreign, performance, festival, military, style, olympic, olympics, cute, director, leader, drama, culture, sexy, commercial, development, workers, spring, army, teacher, fake, river, singers, jackie chan, struggle


Sign Up For The Fallen Earth Alpha Test [Beta Watch]

(via kotaku.com) 11 days ago

Sign Up For The Fallen Earth Alpha Test [Beta Watch]

Want to get in on the ground floor of an upcoming post-apocalyptic MMOG? Fallen Earth is going into alpha testing this Thursday the 14th, and Icarus Studios want to give you a chance to help them test out their game.

Tags: new, world, 2008, visit, free, online, style, project, economy, game, test, population


Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland

(via www.lostlaowai.com) 13 days ago

Beijing: Chinatown in Disneyland

The streets are clean, the people are smiling, the transportation is free and the staff is able and willing to answer any and all questions.  Is this Beijing or Disneyland?

Tags: new, china, people, world, korea, show, group, beijing, star, life, popular, english, free, games, men, summer, olympic, olympics, future, rain, cover, development, game, workers, baseball, cars, tradition, pollution, beach, advertisement, decline


Guy Robs Store: "Only PS3 Can Save My Family"

(via www.alafista.com) 13 days ago

Guy Robs Store:

Sometimes people get really desperate for a PS3 and they have to rob a store at gunpoint to get it. But this man came up with the most creative excuse when robbing the store in St Louis.

Tags: people, man, police, free, family, funny, hostage


GameStop Wants The Girls To Spend The Night With John Madden

(via kotaku.com) 13 days ago

GameStop Wants The Girls To Spend The Night With John Madden

It's Madden Day — and video game retailer GameStop is hoping to soak up some of those "pink ocean" dollars, tapping into what it think is a currently untapped market of women gamers who not only love the Wii, but also love NFL...

Tags: video, love, girls, women, party, free, woman, online, market, cute, female, health, game, fight, photo, wii, video game


Booze Vending Machine

(via sleepytako.blogspot.com) 15 days ago

Booze Vending Machine

This is love. It is a machine and it gives love in 100 yen and 300 yen doses. The cups are free, but the love is endless--as long as you have 100 yen coins. This is perhaps the best vending machine in Japan.

Tags: japan, tokyo, love, home, free, money, photo, flickr


In China, Bush pushes freedom of speech, religion

(via news.yahoo.com) 20 days ago

In China, Bush pushes freedom of speech, religion

U.S. President George W. Bush wasted no ntime on Friday raising the touchy issues of religious freedom and free speech in China, hours before he was to attend the ...

Tags: china, 2008, president, free, summer, olympics, religion


Nationalism in Japan?

(via www.japanprobe.com) 25 days ago

Nationalism in Japan?

Robert Dujarric, director of the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Studies at Temple University Japan, has written an editorial in the Japan Times reminding everyone that "Japan scores very low on nationalism."

Tags: japan, japanese, china, people, korea, american, party, free, south korea, military, director, internet, communist, fight, attack, democracy, communist party, temple


Establishing Trust with the Chinese

(via michaelturton.blogspot.c...) 25 days ago

Establishing Trust with the Chinese

Longtime Washington and US government China policy analysts Richard C. Bush and Jeff Bader are out with an all-too Establishment piece that seems to live in its own dreamworld on US-China relations, calling on Obama and ....

Tags: china, new, people, chinese, world, us, show, 2008, beijing, government, india, american, visit, media, hong kong, international, live, party, president, asia, free, taiwan, foreign, games, war, olympic, united states, magazine, indian, olympics, internet, future, model, language, system, global, cover, rights, problem, child, mother, taiwanese, relationship, protest, election, radio, ban, jobs, crackdown, human rights, ambassador, village, spotlight


Old books and the Olympics

(via www.danwei.org) 26 days ago

Old books and the Olympics

Book collector Yuan Shang enjoys accumulating foreign language dictionaries. "By reading dictionaries," he says, "we can see how western ideas were accepted by the Chinese people."

Tags: china, new, people, chinese, world, us, beijing, government, man, english, international, free, foreign, games, festival, book, shanghai, olympic, olympics, language, global, students, commercial, modern, peace, competition, rare, impressions


A Week in Tokyo 21

(via www.dannychoo.com) 27 days ago

A Week in Tokyo 21

Yet another week blazes by in Tokyo. I need to find a shop where they sell time in bottles.

Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, tokyo, us, love, 2008, asian, movie, girl, visit, life, popular, fans, english, film, girls, release, home, food, live, free, summer, business, festival, market, cute, culture, interview, car, movies, jpop, game, figure, panda, hello kitty, babies


Perez Hilton Hates Yellow People

(via disgrasian.blogspot.com) 29 days ago

Perez Hilton Hates Yellow People

Ever wonder how an internet meme gets started? Or, for that matter, how it then spreads and metastasizes until it becomes accepted fact?Over the last week, we've seen one particular meme develop about China....

Tags: china, people, chinese, world, beijing, government, american, life, hong kong, home, international, party, free, family, blog, games, style, power, olympic, internet, olympics, mother, movies, tibet, college, democracy, teacher, ban, british, bomb, africa, jailed, painting, racism


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