Doing business in Asia, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Russia.

Yeah, dogs can learn new tricks.

There's a woman in Dalian, China, (beautiful city up north on the coast) who has a dog that has learned some new tricks.

The dog can change channels using the remote.

He can read the newspaper.

The dog can also turn the TV off and on.

The massive earthquake in western China is giving Beijing an Olympic sized splitting headache.

The 7.8 magnitude earthquake could not be hidden from the world.

In 1976, 240,000 people were killed in the Tangshan earthquake. Did you know that?

China, Beijing, the government, take your pick, may well realize that the Internet age is upon them and that the government must respond publicly, not in secret.

However, the Ministry of Public Security has issued orders telling them to crack

Honda has a plan of attack for China this year.

The auto maker has two main goals -

1. Increase the number of dealerships to 700 by the end of the year.

2. roll out 650,000 cars out - up 20%

Honda presently has 560 dealerships.

Japanese companies are feeling tremors from the recent earthquake in China.

American companies are feeling them.

Okay, everywhere they are being felt.

Intel Corp. has a chip testing and assembly plant in the area.

Nokia Corp. is missing two of its employees from its sales office in the area.

Motorola Inc has two of their employees injured.

Microsoft Corp received damage to its building in the area.

Japan's number one beach volleyball star, Miwa Asao, doesn't seem to be on her way to the Olympics.

She won't make it despite putting beach volleyball on the map in Japan...somewhere near Niigata maybe? 

She won't make it even her high school coach says, "She's an incredible fighter. And she has the ability to drag up those around her, too."

Why?

1. Her swimsuits are excessively skimpy. This reason will not keep her fans from

Japan has idols. Japan's Hottest Girls - Numbers 1 - 24.

Well, China, with its usual, but not always, good taste has an idol, too.

Xu Jinglei is China's female business idol. Another word for cross dresser, maybe?

Xu Jinglei wears many hats with her business suits:

1. actress

2. chief editor of online rag "Kai La"

3. number one blogger on sina.com.cn

I don't know which country needs which the most, but I know that Japan's economy has partly recovered largely because China's economy is going great guns. When Japan had much to sell and no one was buying, things were different.

At any rate, there's great potential for the economic and trade ties of the two countries now. 

1. Japan has been China's most important trade partner for a long time. For 11 years beginning in 1993, Japan was China's largest.

2. In 2007, two-way trade climbed 13.8% to $236 billion.

China has its own twist on Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

They can be seen at the world's largest lotus ecological theme park.

They aren't mining for gold while Snow White does the chores; they work to save lives.

Snow White isn't dimunitive, cute or even white for that matter. Not even female for that matter. The leader of the pact, Kang Jinhua, is tall enough to look Yao Ming in the eye and he negotiates larger salaries for his team of dwarves and finds jobs for those who might not get them otherwise.

When it rains it pours, I guess.

The things that have been falling out of the sky in China lately...

1. Cats - yup, the cats are falling, the cats are falling. We can use this battlecry the next time someone wants to fight the fictitious man-cause global warming.

2. Gas tanks - placed by men under the influence of ET, of course. Not just any gas tank.

China worries about its economy cooling off. 
 
The country, well, some of the people might be worrying about falling cats, too.
 
What could be worse?
 
How about falling gas tanks placed on window sills by a man being influenced by ET - you know, the little green guy, extra terrestrials.
 
Some knucklehead placed two gas tanks on the window sill of his room. When he walked away, they fell out. One person was killed and another was injured.