Quick news from Malaysia: a Kuala Lampur Indian restuarant won a legal battle with fast food giant McDonald’s today. At stake? The right to use the prefix “Mc”.
Tags: Current Events, Fast Food, Kuala lampur, Legal Battles, Little Guy for the Win!, Malaysia, McCurry, McDonald's, Mr. Suppiah, News
After 140 days in a North Korean prison, Laura Ling and Euna Lee arrived back in the United States yesterday, flying into Burbank Airport just before 6:00am PST with former [...]
Tags: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Current Events, Euna Lee, Journalists, Laura Ling, News, North Korea, Pyongyang
Boryeong, South Korea, began its 12th annual Mud Festival last Saturday with games including mud wresting, mud sliding, and a mud king contest. Why can’t more cities be this inventive?
Tags: Boryeong, Current Events, Daecheon Beach, Festivals, Health, Korea
Hey Fergie! Is this what you mean by “next level visual sh*t“? The fashions on parade at the 2009 MTV Asia Video Music Awards in Japan ranged from awesome to awful [...]
Tags: AI, Black Eyed Peas, BoA, Chinese, Current Events, Emiri Miyasaka, Entertainment, Fashion, Fashion Focus, Fergie, Girls Next Door, Hip-Hop, Humor, Indie, J-Pop, Japan, Japanese, K-Pop, Katy Perry, Kimaguren, Kreva, Metro Station, MTV Asia, Nana Tanimura, Pop, Punk, R&B, Rock, Teriyaki Boyz, VMAs
In celebration of Hello Kitty’s 35th birthday (seems like just yesterday we were celebrating her 30th with diamond-studded brooches from Tiffany’s and other extravagant memorabilia), Sanrio has registered an official [...]
Tags: Art & Design, Culture & Society, Current Events, Fashion, Hello Kitty, Japan, kawaii, pink, pop culture, Sanrio, Scot, Scottish Register of Tartans, tartan, Tiffany's, Tokyo
Hulu has been heralded by many as the site that is reshaping the television industry…in a good way. Now music enthusiasts, artists, and executives eagerly wait to see if Vevo [...]
Tags: Art & Design, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, hulu, Music, music video, Science & Technology, Suneel Gupta, vevo
Some things are almost too friggin awesome for reality. Example: this nearly full-scale Gundam being constructed in a Tokyo park.
Tags: anime, Art & Design, awesome, Bandai, Culture & Society, Current Events, Entertainment, giant robots, Gundam, Japan, mecha, Olympics, Sports, Tokyo
North Korea’s official news agency is reporting that Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists who have been detained since March and stood trial last week for illegal [...]
Tags: Change, Current Events, Euna Lee, Guest Bloggers, journalism, Laura Ling, North Korea, Politics
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. I was in elementary school when it happened, but old enough to know that the crazy, bloody, violent images on [...]
Tags: Beijing, China, Culture & Society, Current Events, Tiananmen Square
The families of Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the American journalists who have been detained in North Korea since March, appeared on NBC’s Today Show yesterday to talk about their [...]
Tags: Current Events, Euna Lee, Laura Ling, Lisa Ling, North Korea
My father’s kind of classical Indian music…played on an electric guitar. Mishra fuses more than just music.
Tags: Current Events, Entertainment, fusion, Hip-Hop, Indian, Live Music, Music, sanjay mishra, Suneel Gupta
So Edison Chen, or as I like to call him fondly: Punk A*s B***h, has boldly resurfaced in Hong Kong, according to The Straits Times (cue 1992 hip-hop classic, “Punks [...]
Tags: C-Pop, Canada, Cantopop, Chinese, Culture & Society, Current Events, Edison Chen, Fashion, Hong Kong, Pop, rant, scandals, sex, stupid people, The Straits Time
Yesterday, Pres. Obama took some time out from shaking his tin cup for political cash to tour a giant solar installation in Nevada. The black panels that O gawked at [...]
Tags: Alt Energy, Barack Obama, Current Events, Environment, green, Guest Bloggers, Politics, Science, solar power, Technology
It gave us the jitters, to put it mildly, when North Korea set off its second nuclear bomb the other day. You can only wonder how South Korea and Japan, [...]
Tags: Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Current Events, Eisenhower, Guest Bloggers, JFK, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Politics, The Why Files, United Nations, World War II
The Why Files is the science behind the news. It’s the “not-for-nerds guide to human brains, animal sex, exploding bugs, and galactic death rays”. It’s everything you didn’t know about [...]
Tags: Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Science, Technology, The Why Files
What do you imagine when someone says “brown”? I think of chocolate, Lo reaches for her design palette, Lika wants a brownie, and Woods heads to the bathroom. Manish Vij [...]
Tags: Culture, Current Events, Guest Bloggers, Society
