Fashion publicity gets publicity where the goods are richer
than the models.
The juxtaposition between poverty and growing wealth presents
an unsavory dilemma for luxury goods makers jumping into India.
Expect follow-ups on Rate A Desi or Sepia Mutiny.
"To be a world-class city we need to have good quality housing",
Ajay Maken said in an interview in his office in an upscale part of Delhi
where power failures are rare and the water supply is good (although
wild monkeys dance on the cars of officials outside, resistant
to all campaigns to banish them).
Peking Duck, China-centric Asian blog.
BEIJING (AP) -- Foreigners in Beijing will be limited to buying
a single home for their own use under new curbs imposed amid
efforts to slow a surge in housing costs, newspapers reported
Saturday.
Foreign home-buyers in Beijing will have to prove they have lived
in China for a year for work or study, and will be barred from
renting out the property, the Beijing Morning Post and China
Daily newspapers said.
East Indian blogging by sepiamutiny, example.
Raw like sushi: Ani Phyo.
urbandictionary is looking good.
Collaborative nature compels user contributions
and feedback, thumbsupping or thumbsdowning
competing definitions on clarity, detail, and
plausibility (for the zero information set) or
accuracy (for those in the know.
The freshness of the content poses a challenge
o the traditional dictionary.
Its information architecture lists adjacent and
related words, and offers endless serendipity.
Example: garaigo.
Korean bbq place in Flushing, Queens. Recommended.
San Hai Jin Mi
36-24 Union Street,
Flushing, Queens, NY 11354
(on Union just south of Northern Blvd. )
ph 718-539-3274
Great bulgogi and they’re open 24 hours as well though they
are not set up for tourists like the ones on K-town 32nd Street.
Continue reading "Bulgogi Korean BBQ beef in Flushing, Queens" »
hanzi smatter or hanzis matter ?
Proofreads tatoos, ex post.
勢 (power; force; tendency) and 夢 (dream).
ThatsShanghai guide to Bejing, Guangzhou and of course Shanghai.
With an xpat perspective.
This Republican Theme Park from America is My Girlfriend by Jasik.
Sinosplice: worthy of blogrolling: updates
Ape Rifle / China-on-the-Thames / ode to VW Santana (Dasher/Quantum/Passat ?) /
Montreal over Toronto / subtle subtitles
An investigation of the not-so-subtle bad architecture in Beijing.
Chinese Triad photo journal.
All Look Same's classification exercise for 20 stock photos:
test yourself.
Why do you worship the ground I blog on or the geekery ?
Xiaxue won an asian bloggie award, topped the defunct Gweilo Diaries.
Definately a cannonical example of chatty look-at-me writing,
from Singapore. It's raining men! And the shopping ! Now that's
Sassy!
Press clippings folder.
Endorsers: Zapped, Google Blogoscoped.
Detractors: C(h)ristine, antistereotype (Auntie Stereotype?) 1, 2.
Tim Blair / Spleenville, lively and colourfull blogger from Australia has a new blog.
