So, the winner of the latest China’s Got Talent TV show/competition got the prize for making that shitty James Blunt song “You’re Beautiful” actually sound OK.
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I don’t think there was any reason other than that. Really.…
A roundup of China news from CNN:
1 Child Rule Out the Window?
I realize some people want more than one kid (God knows why…can you enlighten us, Musashi? ^_^ ), but China had a good idea: limit the population …
Okay – two things. I’m a lifelong Smiths fan (well, since the mid-80′s, which is probably a lifetime to most of you)…also, I can personally confirm that Morrissey is kind of a prick (went to see him in the early …
My wife swears that MSG gives her headaches. Frankly, my wife gives me headaches when she starts whining about the level of MSG in her Chinese food…because for all the noise generated about MSG’s supposedly harmful effects, nobody has been …
The Shan family in Shangdong province, China have been forced to choose a new family name – thanks to computers which can’t render the character necessary to spell their name.
The residents had no problem when identity cards, driving licenses …
OK, listen up, Hollywood starlets and people with more money than sense: dogs are not made to wear clothes. They are not made to be rainbow colors. They do not like riding in strollers or in your luggage-sized purse. Dogs …
I thought traffic was bad in the place where I used to live- a small city that had outgrown its britches, and had not been designed to handle urban sprawl- resulting in tedious traffic jams (it didn’t help that the …
One of the most enduring images in William Gibson’s Neuromancer was Case’s oh-so-homey coffin hotel capsule – which became even cooler when you found out Japan actually had such things. Well, now that China’s economy has surpassed Japan’s, they’re looking …
China is opening a new front on the war against environmental degredation – disposable wooden chopsticks. While the ubiquitous eating utensils may seem harmless to you and me, in China they’re causing a huge problem. 130 million pairs of chopsticks …
One wonders what the Chinese government felt was so galling about the original release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King that it was held up for 2 years. If Chinagame is correct, it mainly looks to be …
China’s culture minister is pissed that his country’s media has become sensationalist and vulgar.
Cai Wu said many Chinese publications were full of gossip and sensational stories advocating money-worship.
He accused regional governments of spending money on “vanity projects” instead …
Did you know videogame consoles are illegal in China? I didn’t; Kotaku’s Brian Ashcraft explains why.…
“Consoles have been banned in China since the year 2000,” Lisa Hanson from market researcher Niko Partners tells Kotaku. “The government thought that was
