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Ever since reality TV shows such as American Idol have heralded an age of talent show competition, every now and then we are seeing commoners-turned superstars rising from obscurity. This influence has spread all the way across the Pacific Ocean to Asia with versions of different talent show contests of the west. On the premier [...]

Despite the differences in educational philosophies, Asia has been setting its higher education agenda according to American rules.

The long envisaged but still unconstructed Kra Canal, across the narrow part of the Kra Isthmus of Southern Thailand, is of great interest to China, Japan, other parts of East Asia, and of course Thailand itself. It is even often featured within the context of China-Singapore relationship, since the topic gets hot among chinese journalists [...]

By blending written vernacular with local dialects, homonyms, puns and exaggerated punctuation, the Chinese “netizens” have now turned out a universal mode of writing suited to all who are not contented with their major, profession or life in general (but who on earth is?).

Mao, Jiang Qing and two daughters (deliberately given surname Li rather than Mao so they stand out less at schools etc); the boy is his nephew Yuanxin, whose father was executed by anti communists and he was raised by his uncle. photos taken with visiting relatives family at leisure a somewhat formal portrait, apparently the [...]

A very late “Happy Chinese New Year” from seechina team. A big thank you to all our good-hearted readers!

An action-packed, quickly-cut, visually compelling and overtly witty film filled with metaphors that are no less layered than “Inception”, Jiang Wen’s new film “Let the Bullets Fly” perhaps can be understood only by the extremely sophiscated and jaded audiences of China and nowhere else.

Fang Zhouzi and Julian Assange have much in common. First, they are both very famous. Assange was given the most votes by Time Magazine web readers  in its online poll on who should be the 2010 Man of the Year (though the award committee gave the honour to Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook who was [...]