Check out the collection of parodies of movie posters designed to popularize the anti-US beef movement at Gusts of Popular Feeling.
Update: Globalwatch.org has a fascinating read on the heroic story of Qinglong County and its wise and cautious officials who saved all 490,000 residents, except for one person who died of a heart attack, by heeding early warnings of the massive July 28, 1976 quake that killed 280,000 people in the Tangshan area. [...]
Sheyla Hershey wasn’t satisifed with her record-breaking FFF silicone bags, the world’s largest, but the state of Texas forbids implants larger than 1,000ccs per breast, so Sheyla, who aspired to look like Dolly Parton since she was 9, became a medical tourist and had her wish granted by doctors in Brazil. No post-surgery photos [...]
100 images added to Flickr courtesy of commenter Gillian. Thanks for the link!
Saddam Hussein’s diaries have revealed that the late dictator feared catching AIDS in prison:
When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts.
“I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people’s diseases,” [...]
In this editorial on the controversy over US beef imports and the recent related MBC program, the editorial staff at the Chosun put the danger of contracting vCJD into perspective:
미국 쇠고기 반대운동을 벌이는 세력들의 거짓과 논리적 모순과 위선(僞善)은 한두 가지가 아니다. 우리 국민 1000만 명 가까이가 매년 광우병이 위험하다는 미국과 유럽 일본 지역에 태연히 관광 [...]
From a Chosun Ilbo story on North Korean women making regular trips across the river to sell sex to Chinese villagers:
또 이 같은 이유 때문에 최근 북한에서는 아들보다 딸을 더 선호한다고 한다. 이 여성은 “북조선 인구 비율은 여자가 많은데 여자들의 살림가치가 높아서 딸을 좋아한다”며 “북조선에서는 여자들이 없으면 못 벌어 먹으며 이 때문에 북조선 남자들은 집 [...]
A 57-year-old civil servant in the city of Kinokawa in southern Japan was demoted and given a pay decrease after it was discovered that he had been surfing porn all day long, visiting websites more than 780,000 times over a nine-month period. July was his busiest month, clocking in more than 177,000 visits, which [...]
You can experience this Korean delicacy vicariously at the Shangaiist. If mollusks could scream, I don’t think this dish would be so popular. On second thought, maybe it would be even more so.
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Daai Tou Lam Diary is a quiet C-blog written by an American resident of Hong Kong. As he is fluent in Chinese, his posts often contain translations from the local Hong Kong media, and he is very critical of the Chinese government. A recent post on the Carrefour boycott drew this conclusion:
As anyone [...]
If you’re bored of the Seoul torch relay violence stories, skip this post. If not, read on. If you’re a C-borg linking in, be forewarned: you won’t like what you’re about to read.
Chinese netizens aren’t too pleased to hear that the Korean government plans to arrest and deport violent Chinese demonstrators who [...]
Korean news photos of the torch relay are circulating on Chinese news forums and blogs. The reaction is mostly patriotic chest-thumping over the sea of red in Seoul and indignation at the pro-Tibet and NK human rights protesters for disrupting the relay. Some commenters are furious at the Korean media’s “distorted reporting.” [...]
EastSouthWestNorth has translated a story from Mingpao on a factory in Guangzhou busted for making Free Tibet flags. The factory was outed by its own workers, who saw images of the flag on Hong Kong TV and checked the internet to confirm its identity.
I’ll keep my commentary brief: WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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The East is red according to China’s Xinhua news agency. A photo essay on the Olympic torch relay in Seoul is filled with images of flag-waving patriots and even a Sinophile laowai. Looks like the Chinese government planned ahead and shipped a container full of 五星红旗 (five star red flag) of all sizes [...]
I wouldn’t have even bothered to read this story at the Mainichi Shimbun if it weren’t for the silly euphemistic use of “tapping” in the headline:
Japanese man under fire in Philippines for tapping woman’s bottom at airport
The story itself got even sillier. The man and his target were waiting for luggage at the airport [...]
April 24, 2008 – 11:00 am
Northport, NY, native Alia Sabur,19, will join the faculty of Konkuk University next month after she finishes a short-term stint teaching math and physics at Southern University in New Orleans.
At Konkuk University, Sabur said she will take part in classroom instruction, but will also focus on research into developing nanotubes for use as cellular probes [...]
Read here to find out a fun and easy way to reduce your risk of prostate cancer.
MH reader Zhang Fei posted a comment containing a story of an American injured by an angry mob outside a Carrefour in Hunan Province. The story appears to have been posted originally at the Shanghaiist:
Last night [Editor’s note: Sunday, Apr 20] around 7pm my friend was attacked by a mob of about 150 people [...]
April 22, 2008 – 10:35 am
When Virginia Tech needed someone to help Korean students deal with the mass shootings last April, they contacted Harvard education lecturer Josephine Kim, who spent two weeks with the students in Falling Waters, West Virginia. After this experience, she realized the need to reach out to young Korean-Americans coping with high expectations, communication barriers, [...]
Ten-year-old Lee Ha-young speaks Korean with a Daegu accent and loves the Wondergirls. Her name and dialect belie her Indonesian ancestry. Born to illegal migrant worker parents married to others, she was adopted as an infant by Pastor Lee Young-mo and Ha Kyeong-ae, who already had two biological children when they fell in [...]
