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Lee Min Ho, Kim Bum, and Goo Hye Sun Go to Singapore!
Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009 – 8:53 | No Comment
Lee Min Ho, Kim Bum, and Goo Hye Sun Go to Singapore!

Apparently, Boys Over Flowers casts seem to have a more beautiful friendship bonding than flowers do. Because on October 21, they are all seen together during Kim Joon’s first music album launching The March of …

Mark Lee Invited to Co-own Indian Food Center
Wednesday, 21 Oct, 2009 – 8:41 | No Comment
Mark Lee Invited to Co-own Indian Food Center

All Singaporeans must have been familiar with his face. Mark Lee, a Singapore local actor recently (and unintentionally) traveled to India to film the new MediaCorp’s Channel U variety programme, Singapore Flavours every Tuesday at …

Don Hewitt dies at 86
Wednesday, 19 Aug, 2009 – 12:03 | No Comment
Don Hewitt dies at 86

One of  television’s pioneers and a longtime CBS executive Don Hewitt, the creator of “60 Minutes,” died on Wednesday. He was 86.
Don Hewitt joined CBS News in 1948.
Hewitt, who had been fighting pancreatic cancer, died …

Sri Lanka refugee camps inundated by floods
Tuesday, 18 Aug, 2009 – 8:19 | No Comment
Sri Lanka refugee camps inundated by floods

Flash floods have submerged refugee camps in northern Sri Lanka, risking the lives of more than 16,000 Tamil refugees.

These refugees had survived cross-fire in the country’s two-decade civil war only months ago.

According to the U.N. …

Former President of South Korea passes away
Tuesday, 18 Aug, 2009 – 5:37 | No Comment
Former President of South Korea passes away

Former President of South Korea and Nobel Laureate Kim Dae-jung, who fought for democracy for decades and urged communist North Korea toward peace, died of heart failure on Tuesday.

Kim was admitted to Seoul’s Severance Hospital …

Japan struck by earthquake
Monday, 17 Aug, 2009 – 1:33 | No Comment
Japan struck by earthquake

Acccording to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck the shores of Japan on Monday morning.
The epicenter of the quake was situated 65 miles (105 kilometers) from Japan’s Ryukyu Islands and 132 miles (212 …

Suu Kyi’s US ‘guest’ deported
Sunday, 16 Aug, 2009 – 8:54 | No Comment
Suu Kyi’s US ‘guest’ deported

The US man who was imprisoned for visiting Burma’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed and deported.
John Yettaw, whose health is weak, left Burma on a plane with visiting US …

Death Toll in Taiwan Mudslide increases
Friday, 14 Aug, 2009 – 5:33 | No Comment
Death Toll in Taiwan Mudslide increases

The President of Taiwan says the number of people killed in mudslides and floods caused by a typhoon could go above 500, with almost 400 of them in a one village alone.
Hsiaolin was knocked …

The history of the two Korea’s I
Friday, 13 Mar, 2009 – 22:03 | No Comment
The history of the two Korea’s I

It could hardly have escaped anyone’s attention that North Korea is planning to launch a rocket. Some countries suspect the rocket might carry a missile, rather than the announced satellite. But the story goes deeper …

Attempt to smuggle beer into Brunei fails
Friday, 13 Mar, 2009 – 8:38 | No Comment
Attempt to smuggle beer into Brunei fails

Selling alcohol is strictly forbidden in Brunei. So is consuming it in public and taking it with you into the country, unless you’re a foreigner. Wikipedia describes the Bruneian government as an “Islamic Absolute Monarchy“, …

Unemployment in China continues to grow
Friday, 20 Feb, 2009 – 0:43 | No Comment
Unemployment in China continues to grow

With 1.3 billion people, China has the biggest population of any country in the world. It’s economy has been growing at an astounding average rate of 9% per year since 1978.
China is widely regarded as …

Blowfish – a deadly delicacy
Monday, 2 Feb, 2009 – 20:40 | No Comment
Blowfish – a deadly delicacy

You might already have recognized the puffy little fella on the right. If not from the nervous little character in Finding Nemo, then perhaps from the latest news that seven people in Northern Japan got …

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