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Alok Mittal trades in anything ‘made in China’-from printer cartridges to locks, children’s toys to wrist watches. He buys them cheap in China and sells them to retailers back home for a handsome margin. The nature of his job requires this small businessman from Ludhiana, in Punjab, to travel to Beijing and Shanghai almost four times every year, but each time he makes a trip to these cities, he has to tug a companion along. “I can’t speak Mandarin. So I need to take a translator with me, lest I fail to hire a reliable person in Beijing to help me crack the right deals,” he says, ruing that Chinese translators are so sparse these days, thanks to the growing business between the two countries, he has to shell out a bomb on mere translation. 

This street fight in Hong Kong has destroyed all my romantic images of Yip Man style kung fu battles.

In the WTF series, I would like to introduce you the special Japanese Xmas Pizza selection from “Strawberry Cones Pizza”.

5. Reality-filled [ria-juu - リア充]: This internet slang is used to describe people who lead fulfilling lives in the real world (as opposed to the virtual online world). Examples of “reality-filled” people include those who enjoy relationships with others in the real world, those who attend parties or participate in group activities, and those who pursue non-otaku interests.

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http://pinktentacle.com/2010/11/top-60-popular-japanese-wordsphrases-of-2010/

China has blocked Internet access to WikiLeaks’ release of more than 250,000 U.S. Department of State cables, with its Foreign Ministry saying that it does not wish to see any disturbance in China-U.S. relations.

A CHINESE woman has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp following a post she made on the micro-blogging site Twitter.