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Chinese ARATS (Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait) Chairman Chen Yunlin’s visit to Taiwan has sparked a series of increasingly contentious confrontations between police and protestors in Taiwan, leading to police crackdowns and the forcible closing of a record store for playing a Pro-Taiwanese anthem. Reports indicate at least 100,000 protestors are currently [...]

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Regardless of your political views or afilliations, it’s hard not to feel proud of the United States’ election of its first African-American president.   I had chills all day yesterday and felt proud to be an American, more than I had in quite a long time.   I feel comfortable living in Asia and seldom [...]

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This story more or less made my day. Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, the two  boys from India  that participated in  the Million Dollar Arm challenge I reported on here and here, have finished their pitching lessons/transformation, and will have a tryout tomorrow in front of some 20 major league scouts.
One year ago neither had [...]

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From the AFP story: Woman arrested for calling Japanese police 7,177 times
Japanese police arrested a woman for making more than 7,000 emergency telephone calls because an officer did not take her initial complaint seriously, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
The 38-year-old was arrested on Tuesday on charges of obstructing police work, a police spokesman in western [...]

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Or, at least I think that’s what the Chinese food safety authorities are trying to do.
From Japan Today:
Chinese food safety authorities said Tuesday that seasoned soy sauce imported from Japan contains arsenic six times the Chinese standard, while powered coffee imported from Japan contains copper three times the level permitted under Chinese regulations.

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