If you’re like most people living in China, you’re annoyed by China’s censorship machine. Google is also annoyed by China’s censorship system, and considering how the search giant chose to end censorship of search results two years ago, we believe Google is very pissed with China. Today, what more could Google do in China? Well, Daniel Alegre, president of Google’s Asia-Pacific operations said that the company’s momentum in China will largely be spurred by its “non-sensitive” advertising business on the mobile and desktop. And Google’s business in China is growing…
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An army of China-made robots have just performed a fantastic dancing show for the Chinese new year variety show produced by China Central Television (CCTV). Those mini robots are designed and made by the students from Harbin Institute of Technology, located at Heilongjiang province, Northeast China. Robots dancing might be quite common in Japan, but it’s still pretty cool to happened in China. Check out the video after the break.
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Pollution in China’s southern region of Guangxi sparked panic buying of bottled water this week after a mining firm dumped toxic cadmium into a river. Authorities found waste discharged into the Longjiang river has caused excessive levels of cadmium some three times the government’s accepted limit. The pollution killed many fish and officials have warned local citizens not to fetch water from the polluted sections of the river. The local fire department has put 80 tonnes of neutralizers, made from dissolved aluminum chloride, into the River to dissolve the contamination …
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Twitter announced that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries. Twitter will reactively withhold content from users in some specific countries while keeping it available in the rest of the world. It has built a mechanism to inform users in the event that a Tweet is being blocked, to retain some transparency. As the company continue to grow internationally, Twitter is trying to enter those countries that have different ideas about the contours of freedom of expression. With the possibility of such restrictions, is twitter ready to enter the big China market ?
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Nintendo, the company that brought us Mario and Zelda, recently released its latest quarterly earnings report. How’s the results? It’s terrible, and the company is heading for its first annual loss in thirty years. Reasons they suffer? 3 things — Strong Japanese yen, 3DS loses ground to smartphones and tablets, and lastly, Angry Birds is now more popular than Mario. Check out the hilarious animation showing the man representing Nintendo getting beat up by Microsoft and Sony.
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China greatest basketball player Yao Ming has already retired last year. There are few better adjectives to describe a great basketball player than “inspirational”. If an athlete, especially from China, is truly great, he makes other people want to accomplish great things themselves too. A young girl in Shanghai who love to create art not with the usual paintbrush or pencils though, used a basketball and some red color paint to paint a portrait of Yao Ming. Check out the interesting video after the break.
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A bakery shop in Taiwan has finally introduced the ifood. The bakery shop is famous for making pineapple cake, a classic Taiwan traditional pastry, and their latest packaging box has similar designed to the Apple’s iPhone. The bakery shop called it the ‘iFong’, the pronunciation of the word ‘Fong’ literally means pineapple fruit. Each box of ‘iFong’ contains 6 small pieces of pineapple cakes, price at NT$250 (US$8.30). The Taiwan bakery shop told the local press that having similar packaging designed like iPhone can attract more customers to purchase the pastry as gift-giving. More pics after the break.
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Well…he is not crazy actually. There are so many guys in China are as crazy as him. But please do not try to do this at home. We have got a video of a monk showing off this amazing skill at China’s Got Talent. Enjoy!
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We are not sure if this man in the video is inspired by the US infomercial “Will it blend?“, but he had truly thrown a HTC G10 (real) and an iPhone 4 (seems to be fake) across the lake like Stone skipping, to test out how many times can the two phones made to bounce before sinking. Um…let’s check out “Will it bounce?”…
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Found this in the Chinese Supermarket. Price just only 2.50 yuan (US$0.39) each. What would you say ? Aids seem to be selling dirt cheap in China … and it comes with hot dogs too (WTF …). The correct translation should be Hot Dogs and Donuts.