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Asia, Health, Politics, Weird News China, Health and Safety, Politics, Weird Story
From Sky News: Officials in China have reportedly been told to puff their way through four and a half million cigarettes a year. Staff at local government offices in Hubei province were given the order in a move intended to set an example for the rest of the nation, according […]
Creative, Crime, Design, Politics, Print, PSA, Sport, Words etc Amnesty International, China, Creative, France, Graphic Design, Human Rights, Politics, Print Ads, Print Campaign, PSA
Powerful imagery for Amnesty International’s After the Olympic Games, the fight for Human Rights must go on. An advertising print campaign. Advertising Agency: TBWA\Paris, France Executive Creative Director / Creative Director: Erik Vervroegen Copywriter: Benoit Leroux Art Director: Philippe Taroux Photographer: Marc Gouby Art Buyer: Barbara Chevalier Account Supervisors: Anne Vincent, […]
Asia, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Photography China, Funny, Photography, Sleeping
I gotta warn you! Before you click through my large collection of photos, you should not forget, what you hear and read daily in of your home countrys’s media about China’s boom.They talk about “The Sleeping Giant”. About “The Birth of the New Super Power” or “The Awakening of the […]
Advertising, Asia, History, Politics, Religion, The Planet Advertising, Autonomous Region, Boycott, China, Coca-Cola, Guerilla Advertising, Religion, Students for a Free Tibet, The Dalai Lama, Tibet
*Real* guerilla advertising: Large banner unfurled on Coke billboard China’s torch has arrived in Australia amid protests in Sydney and Canberra. Four tibet activists were arrested after unfurling a large banner on a prominent Coke billboard in Kings Cross protesting Coke’s sponsorship of China’s tainted torch relay. Link to Students […]
Asia, Comedy, Funny, History, Politics, The Planet, Weird News Chairman Mao, China, Comedy, History, Kissinger, Politics, Rye Humour
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (right) meets with Chinese President Mao Zedong in Beijing, November 24, 1973. From SF Chronicle: Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chairman Mao Zedong made what Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, […]
Asia, History, Hmmn Interesting, Politics, Religion, The Planet, Words etc Autonomous Region, China, religon, The Dalai Lama, Tibet
China continues its suffocating stranglehold on Tibet A SENIOR Tibetan lama and Chinese government advisers have defended contentious rules banning reincarnations of “living Buddhas” without approval. The rules are apparently aimed at empowering China to name the next Dalai Lama when the 14th and current Dalai Lama dies. Last July, […]
Alcohol, Asia, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Weird News Alcohol, Asia, China, Funny, Hmmn. Interesting., 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 […]
Asia, Comedy, Creative, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Weird News, Words etc Baby Names, China, Creative, Funny, Weird News, Words etc.
From Reuters: A Chinese couple tried to name their baby “@”, claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child. The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese. It has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words. “The whole […]
Asia, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Sex, The Planet, Weird News Bad Design, China, Conspiracy, Dolls, Funny, Russia, Toys, Weird News
From englishrussia: Lately some Russian newspapers post photos of these strange Chinese dolls. You can see the scanned piece of article from one Russian regional newspaper. The reason for the panic is that in Russian children toy stores have appeared strange Chinese dolls looking like a girl-doll but if fully […]
Architecture, Asia, Creative, Design, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, The Planet, Weird News Architecture, China, Creative, Shenyang City, Weird News
Home sweet cement pipe A Chinese man has built a house out of two cement pipes. Xin Yucai, 50, of Shenyang city, even turned down the chance to move into his daughter’s apartment he enjoyed living in his unusual home so much. “My father likes to do things differently,” she […]