Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communication Ministry is pissed off at the US because baby-monitor chatter from US military families is interfering with official business. Japan houses some 47,000 US forces, many of who reside there with their family—children included.
Some strange things have happened in Fujian province in eastern China over the years, but perhaps few stranger than a missing cow that recently turned up in the village sewers! How could this happen? Well, no one seems to know the answer to that but farmer, Sheng Hsueh, spent four days searching for his missing cow and could not imagine what had happened to her.
Taken inside the airport in Manila (where we took the flight to Cagayan de Oro City), this sign really made my wife and I smile. And the airline that advertised this did not have to go the extra mile.
What began on August 14 as a simple traffic jam on the National Highway 207 in northern China’s Hebei province has transformed into an 11-day+ jam that may not come undone until sometime in mid September. It all started when the Beijing-Tibet Highway was shut down for repairs on August 13. Disgruntled truck drivers detoured over to the National Expressway 110, causing what soon became a gridlock like no other.
I met a public servant from Canberra recently and asked her how things were going during the extended period without a Government. Her response was, never better, which got me wondering - would it matter if we actually closed Parliament down for another three years?
Japanese gadget maker Thanko just released a USB-powered necktie cooler designed to provide relief to office employees who take a lot of heat from the ol’ boss. The Thanko USB Necktie Cooler 3 was just released in late June as some sort of upgrade to the USB Necktie Cooler 2 (2008), though critics haven’t been able to find one single difference between the two.
Or as it talks especially in beauty contests, writes Jon Berthelsen, Asia Sentinel. While most of the 96 million residents of the Philippines seem to be tearing their hair out over the flubbed answer to a Miss Universe judge's question by Miss Philippines, the spectacularly endowed Maria Venus Raj, Indonesia has evaded the spotlight for a seemingly even more flubbed answer by its contestant, Qory Sandioriva, during a preliminary round.
Where better to leave a lion overnight than in a dingy van in a parking lot? At least that's what a circus owner in northern Kazakhstan thought when he went off for a catnap at the end of a long day's driving after buying the lion.
The only zoo in Nepal has setup a ‘honeymoon suite’ in a last-ditch effort to force its only two one-horned rhinos to mate. Kathmandu Zoo is home to Kancha and Kanchi, two rare one-horned South Asian rhinos in their early 20s who’ve spent most of their lives together.
Two years ago residents of the sleepy Japanese port town of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, were chanting “Yes We Can!” as they cooked up ways to profit from the serendipity of having the same name as the incoming US President. Local merchants rolled out Obama manju (sweet bean-filled cakes), Obama senbei rice crackers and other goodies bearing the likeness of Barack Obama.
Somewhere in the faded files of American Vaudeville Theater, there was at least one act involving the yanking of a tablecloth off a table without knocking over all the dishes and food. Today, a Japanese arcade game called the Tablecloth Hour has recreated this rather dubious skill although no one can quite say why.
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