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Asians Score Higher Than Whites in English

(via www.asianweek.com) 16 hours ago

Asians Score Higher Than Whites in English

Attain highest scores in CA Standards TestsnAsian students scored highest in most categories of the California Standards Tests over the past six years, according to new data on the 2008 Standardized ...

Tags: new, 2008, asian, star, english, school, language, students, education, increase, filipino, asians


Gakkou Ja Oshierarenai 05-06

(via www.minaidehazukashii.co...) 1 day ago

Gakkou Ja Oshierarenai 05-06

I got a chance to catch up this evening on Gakkou and man I was reminded of how awesome it is. And once again like I said in my previous post, it's a lot more fun to watch it in a "marathon" than to have to wait weekly for the...

Tags: love, man, life, series, school, family, festival, couple, dance, drama, sex, students, student, dancing, competition, bomb, impression


China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices

(via news.yahoo.com) 2 days ago

China's Olympic ceremony features sacrifices

Martial arts student Cheng Jianghua only saw the army barracks he stayed in and the stadium where he performed at the spectacular Olympics opening ceremony. But his sacrifices were minor — other performers were injured, fainted...

Tags: china, show, olympic, olympics, ceremony, student, army, martial arts


Indian teenager arrested in deadly iPod dispute

(via news.yahoo.com) 8 days ago

Indian teenager arrested in deadly iPod dispute

A 14-year-old school boy in eastern India has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a younger student who refused to hand over her iPod, police said Tuesday.

Tags: india, police, school, boy, indian, arrested, student, ipod


Hong Kong's Dissident Diva

(via www.time.com) 9 days ago

Hong Kong's Dissident Diva

How a Hong Kong philosophy student became the city's anti-Olympic poster child...

Tags: hong kong, olympic, child, student


3G iPhone in Saigon

(via www.saigonnezumi.com) 9 days ago

3G iPhone in Saigon

My former student, Wendy, showed me her brand new white 3G iPhone last Friday.  I was surprised, it was very nice.  I hate to say it, the design is much better than the original iPhone.

Tags: new, student, design, vietnam


The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

(via www.asianweek.com) 10 days ago

The Wisdom of Mr. Miyagi

To assume that true learning only takes place in a classroom is a fallacy. One of my generation's greatest teachers never stepped in front of a class full of students, but his wisdom cannot be denied. He is Mr. Miyagi...

Tags: man, single, life, film, summer, couple, dance, director, leader, internet, future, students, wife, baby, collection, modern, fight, travel, cars, youth, martial arts, myspace


Ma Ying-jeou in Time Magazine

(via michaelturton.blogspot.c...) 11 days ago

Ma Ying-jeou in Time Magazine

BLOG ADMIN NOTE: Blogger's comment function is very screwed up: it does not show comments when I in fact have them, and it also invariably shows fewer comments than I actually have.It was a gorgeous day today...

Tags: china, new, people, world, us, show, beijing, media, series, international, president, games, taiwan, blog, business, money, director, olympics, war, magazine, interview, students, taiwanese, economy, education, democracy, politics, russia


Beijing 2008 = Berlin 1936?

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 12 days ago

NOVELIST AND AUTHOR Mark Mordue has some discouraging words about the Beijing Olympics in an op-ed piece appearing in The Age (of Australia) titled Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon:n(T)hese Games are about symbolically ...

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Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches

(via www.asianweek.com) 15 days ago

Louisiana School Board Considers English-Only Grad Speeches

Vietnamese students provoke potential policy nIn Louisiana's Terrebonne Parish, Ellender Memorial High School co-valedictorians and cousins Hue and Cindy Vo delivered graduation speeches on May 19, unaware that...

Tags: japanese, new, people, american, english, school, asia, foreign, director, united states, culture, indian, language, students, rights, parents, high school, education, vietnamese, youth


English teacher makes Japanese kids pose for "shocker" photo

(via www.japanprobe.com) 17 days ago

English teacher makes Japanese kids pose for

It's stupid and immature for a teacher to trick a group of Japanese students into making sexual hand gestures for a photograph, and even worse for that person to then send it to their friends for laughs.

Tags: japanese, group, english, students, photo, teacher, flickr


Japanese Honorific Titles. When do you use Chan, Kun, San, Sama?

(via otakuinternational.com) 18 days ago

Japanese Honorific Titles. When do you use Chan, Kun, San, Sama?

I know for many of you out there, these honorific titles may be a very simple thing for you. Especially for those who are constantly watching Anime or reading Manga series. However, don't go assuming that everyone ....

Tags: japan, japanese, people, us, anime, girls, series, family, children, manga, female, parents, poor, student, teacher, jobs, blogs, crash


Na Ri is crowned the new 2008 Miss Korea

(via k-popped.com) 19 days ago

Na Ri is crowned the new 2008 Miss Korea

Please welcome the new Miss Korea - Na RiThe 52th Miss Korea pageant was held at Seoul's Gwang-hwa-mun Sejong Center for Performing Arts theatre on the 6th August. The pageant was aired on Korea's cable channel tvN.

Tags: new, korea, 2008, seoul, student, movies, figure, super junior


Sue Lee Tells Supes To 'Play Nice'

(via www.asianweek.com) 25 days ago

It wasn't choreographed. Sue Lee would not kickoff the campaign at the Richmond District Neighborhood Center without mom, Belva. When it started, Lee emphasized foremost her parenting qualifications for S.F. district....

Tags: new, people, chinese, asian, police, women, school, party, president, family, business, boy, director, leader, students, mother, student, high school, launch, election, safety, new year, politics, lunar, mayor, homeless


Japanese For Japanese Language

(via japanvisitor.blogspot.co...) 25 days ago

It's useful when learning any language to know the words that describe the grammar and make-up of the target language. Teachers of other languages to Japanese students may benefit from knowing certain linguistic....

Tags: japan, japanese, chinese, world, tokyo, war, language, students, child, mother, modern, koreans


Money can't buy Tibetan love

(via search.japantimes.co.jp) 25 days ago

By all measures Tibet's economy is booming. In the past 30 years its growth rate has outstripped the rest of China's, 10.4 percent to 9.8 percent year on year. The result is that the vast majority of Tibetans have been...

Tags: china, new, love, government, money, students, economy, tibet, education, growth, rate, poverty


Students Rap as Positive Artistic Outlet for Personal Frustrations

(via www.asianweek.com) 25 days ago

Students Rap as Positive Artistic Outlet for Personal Frustrations

SAN FRANCISCO - "As an Asian, I was raised to keep quiet," said sixteen-year-old Ajay.nBut the Chinese American received the loudest applause out of all twelve spoken-word performers on July 18 at Mama Calizo's Voice Factory.

Tags: china, chinese, music, group, asian, american, home, school, performance, united states, court, system, students, high school, yahoo, technology, marriage, education, youth


Old books and the Olympics

(via www.danwei.org) 25 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


The nascent Japanese eco-skepticism

(via ampontan.wordpress.com) 29 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.

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Chaos;Head Anime Adaptation Set For October

(via www.alafista.com) 29 days ago

Chaos;Head Anime Adaptation Set For October

News has been announced In the latest issue of Comic Alive, that the psychological visual novel CHAOS;HEAD has been adapted into an anime series and is scheduled to be broadcasted in October.

Tags: japanese, 2008, anime, tv, home, school, series, blog, sex, student, high school, game, violence, murder