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Stranger Than Fiction — Bestselling Chinese Crime Writer Is A Serial Killer
From The Guardian: Liu Yongbiao had talked of plans for book about killer author who evades capture but police say he is now a suspect in multiple decades-old murders In the introduction to his novel The Guilty Secret, Chinese writer Liu Yongbiao revealed he had already started work on a […]
Milan-based chef and artist Yujia Hu ‘Shoe-shi’ (Sushi sneakers)
Milan-based chef and artist Yujia Hu makes sushi sneakers to order. Shoe-shi (Sushi sneakers) Yujia Hu on Instagram Via deMilked
15+ Fake Brands and Copycats from China and Other Countries
From Bored Panda: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, although certain patent lawyers might disagree. Despite this phrase being uttered by the English cleric Charles Caleb Colton sometime in the 19th century, patent law has been in existence since at least 500 B.C.E. in Greece—although the rights were usually […]
Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi ‘To Be Released’ — (I’m not holding my breath).
From Sky News: Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will be released in November just days after the first election there in two decades, officials say. The Nobel Peace laureate has been detained for most of the last 20 years since winning the country’s last poll in 1990. Unnamed […]
China. Beer in a bag. Tsingtao.
Tsingtao Brewery is one of the biggest beer brands in China. In the city of Qingdao in Shandong province where the beer is produced one can enjoy the original taste of the beer. The beer is also cheap, only about 10 cents a pound so most of us are financially […]
Large Waterspout off Singapore’s east coast
SINGAPORE: A large waterspout has been spotted from the eastern parts of Singapore. Most callers to the MediaCorp News Hotline reported seeing what looked like a tornado or a twister over the sea. Most said they saw the phenomenon at about 2.30pm and that the phenomenon lasted about 15 […]