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 …

Believe it or not, the Chinese have something more serious to worry about than its economy cooling off.
A drop in the 10% yearly growth? Not to worry.
Protectionist laws passed every country in the world that …

Sometimes the comments are better than the post, educational or in this case, correctional.
Dan Harris of China Law Blog (an award winner, make that top award winner in several blog contests) made me laugh at …

China's mobile phone users sent 5,546 text messages every second for the first three months of this year.
That number is up 28.8% over the same quarter last year.
What I want to know is, what are …

Three of Japan's automakers, Honda Motor, Mitsubishi Motors and Mazda Motor are selling more cars, but making less profit doing so.
Honda Motor Co's saw their profits dropped a whopping 86% in the first quarter of …

Nothing new. Same-O. Same-O.
The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is predicting China's economy will continue to grow at better than 10% this year.
Agriculture will grow 3.2%.
Industrial and the service industries – 12.2%.
Fixed assets will hit …

Apocalyptic?
Maybe.
Female students and white collar workers (they have enough money) in China's Guangzhou and Shanghai are having nude portraits taken.
Why?
1. to record the beauty of their youth – "See, I used to be pretty …

Other countries in Asia besides Japan and China are making forays to space.
In fact, South Korea has sent an astronaut to space and she's already back.
Yi So-yeon traveled aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Yi is a …

Fan Bing Bing got a part as an Olympic Equestrian in a short film that is Olympic-themed.
She, along with Chinese mainland actor Huang Xiaoming, Hong Kong pop singer Gigi Leung, and Taiwan singer and actress …

Two teenagers in China were held hostage by a beauty salon until they could come up with Y12,000 total to pay for their haircuts. They scraped it up by asking their classmates to pitch in. …