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Taiwanese Player Tests Positive For Banned Substance While Team Blanks Dutch Anyway, Canada Cruises

(via eastwindupchronicle.com) 13 hours ago

Taiwanese Player Tests Positive For Banned Substance While Team Blanks Dutch Anyway, Canada Cruises

The island's baseball association has applied to WADA to have Chang take another urine test, Taiwan's Central News Agency reported.nThe player may have taken a Chinese cold medication that contains....

Tags: japan, chinese, games, taiwan, olympic, olympics, problem, taiwanese, test, baseball, illegal, canada, banned


Enjo kosai - a growing problem in Hong Kong

(via www.japanprobe.com) 17 hours ago

Enjo kosai - a growing problem in Hong Kong

A group in Hong Kong claims that young girls in their city are turning to enjo kosai (compensated dating)...

Tags: japan, group, girls, women, hong kong, family, men, money, sex, problem, trade, dating, luxury


Spain Basketball Team's Racist Gesture

(via www.asian-nation.org) 18 hours ago

Spain Basketball Team's Racist Gesture

Several Asian American bloggers (thanks to AngryAsianMan for first pointing it out) and now, major news organizations such as ABC News and the New York Times, have been covering this emerging controversy: Spain's Olympic basketball...

Tags: new, people, chinese, world, us, group, beijing, asian, american, fans, english, school, games, family, men, olympic, olympics, new york, united states, power, history, problem, funny, gold, asian american, british, asians, climate, basketball, soccer, racism


An infuriated South Korea: Is this how to conduct diplomacy with neighbors?

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 3 days ago

An infuriated South Korea: Is this how to conduct diplomacy with neighbors?

WE'VE ALL KNOWN people who just can't get along with anybody. They always seem to be embroiled in an overblown feud over some petty issue with a neighbor or coworker. They tend to have frequent misunderstandings...

Tags: japan, japanese, china, people, chinese, world, tokyo, korean, us, korea, beijing, government, american, media, police, english, school, food, president, south korea, family, business, minister, seoul, market, olympics, united states, prime minister, language, south korean, north korea, problem, economy, relationship, high school, peace, protest, aid, koreans, debate


Yun Jung Hoon

(via k-popped.com) 4 days ago

Yun Jung Hoon

30 year-old Yun Jung Hoon (Yeon Jeong Hun) is probably most famous for marrying the beautiful actress, Ha Ga In. Being an actor seem to be in his roots as his father is veteran actor Yun Kyu Jin. The very first time I saw...

Tags: new, chinese, korean, song, 2008, love, movie, school, actress, family, business, military, art, drama, actor, beautiful, rain, wife, parents, problem, mother, design, movies, snow, birth


The Myth of Chinese Gold in the Economic Development of Taiwan

(via michaelturton.blogspot.c...) 6 days ago

The Myth of Chinese Gold in the Economic Development of Taiwan

It's quite common for the ignorant, duped, and malicious to claim that Taiwan got rich because Chiang Kai-shek looted all the gold from China, and that gold then formed the financial foundation for Taiwan's development.

Tags: china, chinese, us, government, food, taiwan, foreign, money, military, war, history, project, 2006, problem, poor, development, taiwanese, economy, baby, gold, figure, aid, growth, army, rich, rate, laws, boom


Does anime going mainstream scare you?

(via xorsyst.com) 16 days ago

Does anime going mainstream scare you?

This question popped into my head upon reading some of the comments on the Cowboy Bebop movie thread, and more recently I was reminded about it a comment on my Shoko Nakagawa post earlier in the week.

Tags: japan, new, people, us, group, movie, anime, visit, fans, live, business, art, manga, youtube, problem, blogs, naruto


Establishing Trust with the Chinese

(via michaelturton.blogspot.c...) 16 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


Giants Rookie is First Full-Blooded Filipino in Big Leagues

(via www.asianweek.com) 16 days ago

Giants Rookie is First Full-Blooded Filipino in Big Leagues

Giants rookie pitcher Geno Espineli has heard his share of stereotypical cracks about wacky left-handers. Even so, he doesn't think it at all odd that among the personal effects he brought to San Francisco from....

Tags: japanese, people, 2008, beijing, asian, star, american, 2007, home, school, family, games, debut, style, olympic, olympics, problem, mother, philippines, game, baseball, college, travel, filipino, asians, manila, pitcher


The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 20 days ago

The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Tags: japan, japanese, china, new, people, world, tokyo, korean, us, love, show, group, government, asian, man, 2007, visit, star, american, website, home, series, food, international, president, minister, foreign, money, military, style, director, book, war, prime minister, united states, deal, power, record, future, history, interview, system, global, students, water, award, problem, poor, modern, fight, gold, energy, technology, aid, college, radio, increase, game, rich, safety, rate, warning, models, politics, debate, trial, beach, global warming, climate, religion, bangladesh, fraud, poverty, stocks, flood


Duc Tuan - Tieng Hat Truong Chi

(via www.visualgui.com) 21 days ago

Tieng Hat Truong Chi continues Duc Tuan's direction in concept album. He covers Van Cao's tunes with the accompanying of Hoai Sa's arrangements. Hoai Sa is a young, talented musician and he is one of the....

Tags: music, song, album, release, beautiful, problem, thai, game


Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 21 days ago

Japanese and South Korean editorials on Takeshima: A comparison

ONE POINT I often try to make here is that the Japanese media is not as biased in a nationalistic sense as some people claim. Bias, as with beauty, is in the (biased) eye of the beholder, but I think the tone of the ...

Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, world, tokyo, korean, song, korea, 2008, government, single, visit, media, popular, website, english, home, school, international, party, president, asia, south korea, minister, foreign, business, couple, children, leader, seoul, prime minister, war, deal, culture, future, language, history, students, north korea, south korean, rights, problem, nuclear, law, economy, development, relationship, trade, fight, peace, population, increase, education, game, figure, koreans, cooperation, ambassador, russia, apology


Chubby Japan

(via xorsyst.com) 21 days ago

Chubby Japan

I think it's safe to say as a whole, most of the world sees Japan and other Asian countries as very fit, and not chubby like the west. The most obvious factor is diet. Speaking as an American, I believe that most of ...

Tags: japan, japanese, new, world, us, government, asian, man, american, women, men, market, problem, health, wii, education, disease


Aunt Louise, KPop Agony Aunt

(via shenyuepop.com) 24 days ago

Aunt Louise, KPop Agony Aunt

Warning: For those without a sense of humour, do not read the following article. This is a spoof and we mean no harm by it. If we find comments too unnecessary or offensive we will just delete them.

Tags: japan, japanese, new, people, chinese, world, video, korean, music, korea, love, show, group, man, movie, girl, american, life, popular, singer, fans, girls, women, home, school, international, actress, asia, south korea, woman, money, military, children, market, dance, concert, artist, drama, deal, female, beautiful, sexy, award, idol, problem, artists, health, poor, child, mother, singing, mobile, high school, yahoo, secret, safety, warning, tea, british, kpop, boa, africa, drug, criticism, jeans


Kyoka Midarezaki

(via www.dannychoo.com) 24 days ago

Kyoka Midarezaki

Did you say you wanted more exclusive goodies from the Good Smile offices?nOK, before I continue I need to quickly say "(c) Akira/ Published by Enterbrain Inc./ 超常現象対策局分室" ^^;

Tags: japanese, china, people, love, show, 2008, anime, release, list, manga, problem, collection, game, figure, gundam, painting


Technical problems between host and AT&T

(via www.nt2099.com) 27 days ago

There has been a major technical problem within the past few days between our host and AT&T which prevents people who have an account with AT&T (sbcglobal, sbcyahoo, etc.) to open up any iPower hosted websites.

Tags: people, problem, at&t