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Michelle bags silver Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 8:26PMKOTA KINABALU : Michelle Yee was denied of winning a gold medal by a mere 0.01 point in the 3rd World Traditional Wushu Championship in Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province, China recently.
Once-jobless group proves life after layoff can be sweet Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 12:24AMAs the unemployment rate spikes, the economy tumbles into possibly its worst recession in decades and hundreds of thousands of people lose their jobs, some of those displaced workers might find inspiration in a group of managers laid off 16 years ago in the prime of their careers. While devastating at the time, the closing of a Louis Rich turkey-processing plant in Visalia, Calif., "was a good ...
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 7:11PMFor most people, karate is about as Japanese a sport as you can get — but it’s also an extremely global one.
BU to offer courses in Chinese language Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 3:37PMCOIMBATORE: Bharathiar University will offer certificate and diploma courses in Chinese in collaboration with ‘Cheena Vanolli’, a Chinese radio station having its base in Beijing. The radio station airs programmes in Tamil in ...
03:04 (BST), 07/11/2008 Perfect World II Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS - Games-masters.com today confirmed ... Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 6:04AM- Games-masters.com today confirmed that the eagerly anticipated open beta of its massively multiplayer online game, Perfect World, will begin now for its International English, German and Spanish versions.
New DVDs Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 2:14AM Get Smart 2 1/2 stars CONTROL is the top-secret U.S. spy agency, KAOS is the terrorist group trying to overtake the world, and Steve Carell (above, with Anne Hathaway) is the big movie star attempting to put his stamp on a role defined by someone else. As the late Don Adams did on the 1960s TV series, Carell plays CONTROL Agent Maxwell Smart with a straight face. But unlike ...
Shangri-La Chinese Acrobats bring their spectacular art to Vermont Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 2:07AMSpinning plates that seem to defy gravity -- floating at the tops of thin sticks while performers balance and pass them and arrange them into flower-like bouquets. Towers of balanced chairs with agile young men and women climbing them are certainly in a different gravity field than the rest of us. The contortionists, who can twist into pretzel-shapes and untwist and still walk, are almost ...
Monkey business: Artist Jamie Hewlett reveals how he created his anti-hero Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 6:25PM It has been a long journey. It is hard to pinpoint the exact start of it: perhaps it was with an incident-filled trip by two friends, both famous Western artists, to China three years ago; or perhaps it was with a cartoon band that defied the critics and sold millions of albums worldwide seven years ago; or even with a badly dubbed Japanese television series that became a cult hit in Britain in ...
Got Silk? Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 7:27PMIt is Saturday morning. The trees are swaying, and the ground is damp from a pre-dawn shower. Sunlight filters through the cloudy but clearing skies.
The Warlords (15) Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 6:12PMThe 1860s, China, and a country torn apart by civil war and famine. Into this arena step two brothers, and a mysterious stranger they adopt as one of their own.
Broadway?s Rough Road Ahead Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 6:35AMMusicals and plays are trying to hang on until the holidays bring an influx of visitors to New York. A handful of others have been struggling to fill seats.
Cinematic offerings from China at festival Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 4:43PMImagine a showdown in the rain between rival gangs of pickpockets, with rows of black umbrellas choreographed like something out of a Jacques Demy musical. Or the entrancing melody sung by the Snow Lotus, a young Tibetan bride-to-be who becomes a household...
Olympic wrestler Askren joins ATT Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 11:15AMOlympic wrestler Ben Askren has decided to take a shot at mixed martial arts and officially joined the American Top Team, as confirmed to MMAWeekly.com on Monday.
How Akshay Kumar trumped Tom Cruise! Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 3:27AMRohan Sippy, director of Bluffmaster, was given permission to shoot on The Great Wall of China for his Chandni Chowk To China, something -- he claimed at a press meet in New York October 31 -- Mission Impossible was not allowed to do.
"World of Kung Fu" Martial Arts Online Game Gets Major Upgrade Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 1:01AM The Free-to-Play Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) from VestGame Entertainment is getting a major upgrade that includes new quests, skills, mounts, and several new systems that dramatically enhance gameplay.
May the chi be with you Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 4:39PMWHO knew that you need to smile when practising qigong? While many may assume that qigong practitioners have to look solemn when practising the moves, those who attended The Star Learning Skills 2008 QiGong for Healing Beginner’s Class were told to smile so that they could breathe better and more naturally.
Area briefs: Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 2:32AMFrom staff reports Livingstone was crushed by CIAA rival Fayetteville State 55-20 in its season finale on Saturday. The Broncos (8-2, 6-1) scored 20 s ...
West Goes East Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 8:15AMA November 3 Shanghai Grand Stage concert will be a sort of homecoming gig for hip-hop superstar Kanye West . Though West was born in Atlanta, he accompanied his mother to China in 1987 when he was 10 years old and she secured a one-year teaching job in Nanjing.
Singapore team wins Xbox game development challenge Friday, October 31, 2008 @ 12:38PMSINGAPORE : A Singapore team has won Microsoft’s global Xbox game development challenge.
Isle of Wight: Chinese focus week at Gurnard Primary School Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 4:58AMA SERIES of activities at Gurnard Primary School had an oriental flavour. During the school’s Chinese focus week, the children learned about China’s culture, food and industry.
Performance Conveys Depth of Chinese Culture Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 1:55AMBefore the Chinese Spectacular came along, most overseas Chinese were unaware of the breadth and profundity of their ancient culture.
Footnotes Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 12:08AMNew York City Ballet will hold its opening-night benefit on Nov. 25, its first performance in the newly named David H. Koch Theater. Mr. Koch, who recently gave a $100 million gift for the performance space (formerly the New York State Theater), and his wife, Julia, will be the honorary chairman and chairwoman for the program. The benefit will open with ?Chichester Psalms? by Peter Martins, the ...
Review: Oakland Ballet gets good news, strong performances Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 3:16PMStruggling company announces it has won a $200,000 grant
Perfect World Announces Asset Transfer and License Agreement With Interserv Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 6:38AM Perfect World Co., Ltd. , a leading online game developer and operator in China, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Global InterServ Inc., a subsidiary of InterServ International Inc. , a Taiwan-based game developer .
Ancient Art Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 12:51AMGabe Ayala practices Wing Chun at the Logan Kung Fu Academy. (Eli Lucero/Herald Journal) You won’t find flying kicks at Logan Kung Fu Academy. Nor will you see off-balance spins, exaggerated punches or any number of other over-complicated techniques.
Keeping the momentum going Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 6:27PMAfter a very successful Olympics where China was the top nation in gold medals, the country wants to have more than half its 1.3 billion people involved in sports.
Port Huron Sesquicentennial Timeline Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 2:34PM13,500 years ago - What geologists refer to as the Port Huron Glacial Advance pushes the ice cap as far south as Port Huron. A 2-mile-high wall of ice would have towered above what is now the southern lobe of Lake Huron.
DVD list Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 2:29AMNew and current DVD releases, reviewed by Walter Addiego, Reyhan Harmanci, Peter Hart- laub, G. Allen Johnson, Mick LaSalle, Ruthe Stein, David Wiegand and Steven Winn. Just released RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)The Incredible Hulk This new version of the Hulk...
Thomas Center to host China Fest Sunday Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 12:35AMA trip to China usually lasts a couple of weeks and can cost thousands of dollars. Or it could mean a short car ride and free admission. A $5,000 grant has made it possible for Gainesville to hold China Fest from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Thomas Center Sunday.
Rent a clap Thursday, October 23, 2008 @ 11:06AMBeijing - A local government in eastern China has drawn criticism for ordering officials to inflate the number of people at the opening ceremony of an agricultural fair and for demanding attendees clap.
Beauty Media to Publish Thousands of Chinese Movie Downloads on EZTakes Tuesday, October 21, 2008 @ 2:01AM Beauty Media, owner of one of the largest catalogs of Chinese videos, has partnered with EZTakes to offer its titles as downloadable DVDs to American consumers.
Bruneian Wins Bronze In Asian Beach Games Monday, October 20, 2008 @ 8:40PMBandar Seri Begawan - Tanjung Benoa, Bali - Muhammad Khairul Durahman of Brunei Darussalam bagged the bronze medal in the Asian Beach Games here on Sunday, according to the Jakarta Post.
Expect Something Different Friday, October 17, 2008 @ 8:58PMBandar Seri Begawan – Bruneian born superstar Wu Chun left the country yesterday after his one-day trip back here to promote his first movie "Butterfly Lovers" costarring Hong Kong celebrity Charlene Choi.
Wushu is in Cuba for good Friday, October 17, 2008 @ 5:47PMIT was Bruce Lee films that brought the first images of kung fu to Cuba. Marveling at the mastery of the young actor, the Cuban public looked for his appearances every month and found in them a new form of the martial art that broke with those elegant airs of the ancestral Japanese karate, which was better known on this Caribbean island.
PASSINGS Tuesday, October 14, 2008 @ 12:29AMAlton Ellis Singer known for rocksteady sound
Cambridge Univ. strengthens ties with Chinese partners Monday, October 13, 2008 @ 12:57AMTo celebrate and strengthen the relationship with China, Professor Alison Richard, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has just concluded a four-day trip to China to discuss several topics with her Chinese partners.
SUNDAY ARTS CALENDAR Sunday, October 12, 2008 @ 1:06AM EVENTS Historic Midtown Walking Tour of Homes, costumed docents guide tours of five restored homes, noon-5 p.m. today, along north Fairview Avenue. Tickets $10, children under 12 free, available at Faith United Christian Church, 1557 Park Place, or in advance at www.historichometours.com . Information, 316-258-8795. 75th Annual St. George Lebanese Dinner and Food Sale, noon-7 p.m. ...
For youth by youth Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 5:18AMMembers of ONI entertainment Ramses Shakur, Quoc-Viet Le-The, Kalvin Nhan, Kevin Hua and, in front, Derrick Nhan, are fighting for attention on the Internet.
Ashes of Time Redux Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 2:04AM(2008) Starring: Tony Leung , Maggie Cheung Director: Wong Kar-Wai Synopsis: A broken-hearted hitman moves to the desert where he finds skilled swordsmen to carry out his contract killings.
Bruce Lee series to start Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 7:35AMMartial arts action hero Bruce Lee is to be brought back to life in a TV series.
Last minute preparations underway for International Festival of Fort Bend Wednesday, October 8, 2008 @ 2:47AMOrganizers are busy making last-minute preparations for the 2nd Annual International Festival of Fort Bend.
China to air Bruce Lee biography Tuesday, October 7, 2008 @ 10:00AMKung fu movie star – ignored in China while he was alive – to be marked with 50-part series
09:19 (BST), 03/10/2008 Twelve Sky Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS Twelve Sky, the player vs. player MMORPG ... Friday, October 3, 2008 @ 4:14AMTwelve Sky, the player vs. player MMORPG published by Aeria Games, has announced the start of a major promotion called “12 Days of 12 Sky on Xfire.”
Tai chi, self defense classes now offered Saturday, September 27, 2008 @ 1:23AMBURLINGTON — A local resident and longtime martial arts practitioner is now sharing his knowledge of tai chi and self-defense.
Holiday Shows Saturday, September 27, 2008 @ 1:17AMTheater Avant-garde theater phenom Meng Jinghui (and his wife) made a big stir among young audiences across China with this show last year, prompting a reprise this month at Meng¨ªs new theater.
BELATED LIVE REVIEW: Alonzo King + Shaolin Monks Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 12:14PM[Ed. note: Brandon Seifert doesn’t know from ballet, but he does know his Shaolin Monks. So we sent him to White Bird’s presentation of Alonzo King’s collaboration with the ass-kicking clerics.] Martial arts fans and ballet aficionados tend to regard each other disdainfully from opposite sides of a vast cultural divide. Both sides lend themselves to stereotyping—one as mindless, unartistic ...
‘The Chinese community should be very proud:’ Councilor Friday, September 26, 2008 @ 6:04AM“I’m absolutely impressed. It was an incredible performance and it’s obviously a wonderful experience and certainly a depiction of 5,000 years of Chinese culture,” Meffe said.
Just Hollywood lore? Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 8:16PMNine-year-old Yuan Peng practices splits. The mention of Shaolin Temple conjures up images of a quiet and peaceful monastery on a remote mountain in China, a peaceful retreat, a place to worship, a place to reflect, and dozens of monks practicing kungfu.
Fatal attraction Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 7:10PMVixen’s beauty captures the hearts of men in Painted Skin.
‘Merchant of Death’ in Thai Court Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 3:54PMBANGKOK — An alleged arms smuggler’s extradition hearing to the United States began Monday after a string of delays in the high-profile case because of complications with his defense team in Thailand.