Wang Enlin, from Yushutun village, in China’s Heilongjiang Province, will never forget that day in 2001, when his village and farmland were flooded with toxic waste. On the eve of the Lunar New Year, villagers notice that the house they were in was being flooded with waste water from the nearby Qihua Group, a State-owned…
In an effort to make his Buddhist temple more accessible to the wider public and draw younger generations to religion, a former DJ turned Buddhist priest has been holding “Techno Memorial Services” at his temple in Fukui City, Japan. Attending one of the unconventional memorial services organised at the Sho-onji Buddhist temple by 49-year-old Gyosen…
Ever wonder what it would feel like to be thrown around in a giant metal bowl with only a few metal bars keeping you from literally flying out of the bowl or bumping face first into other people? If so, all you have to do is take a ride on a Tagada. The Tagada may…
Implementing the land’s laws and interpreting them are different kettles of fish. The various wings of administration may have won battles in the task of ensuring the masses fall in line but have clearly lost the war. The script writers of the country’s Constitution, either in spite of or because of the 120 or so…
Looking for an original Valentine’s Day gift? How about a special Kotoka strawberry hand-picked in Japan that comes pre-packed in a special gift box? It’s said to be very tasty, and it only costs $22. City’super, a supermarket chain in Hong Kong, has come under fire recently for selling what many have called “the most…
To pen a few rhetorical lines that have rhyme and rhythm will be the unbridled urge of young writers. One such budding poet met the poetry editor of an avant-garde quarterly magazine for submitting his work. The editor, after a cursory perusal, like a senescent accountant checking the column of figures from top to bottom,…
Protagonists of Kannada seem to have gone into a shell once the language, accepted as the tongue of 60-plus million people including those who have taken residence outside the State, both within the country and outside, was accorded classical language status (2008) by the Government of India along with Tamil (2004), Sanskrit (2005), Telugu (2008),…
Poor Dr. Manmohan Singh is repeatedly resurrected by the Congress party to rescue it from the mess it finds itself in. No one ever accused him of being articulate, but he did start with a personally clean image and a reputation for ‘unimpeachable’ integrity. Alas, both of these ‘assets’ have been over-exploited, and for all…
Goûte is a strange-looking spoon-like product that allegedly enhances the taste of certain foods by emulating the experience of licking your fingers. It was designed to replace regular spoons when enjoying creamy foods like yogurt, chocolate mouse or honey. Goûte was created by Michel / Fabian, a design company. Founders Dr. Andreas Fabian, of Buckinghamshire…
Alexander Batyokhtin, a 41-year-old man from the Siberian village of Sosnovka, spent six weeks shaping around 12 cubic meters of fresh snow into a three-meter high church, where his fellow villagers can now to say a prayer and light a candle. There is no real church in Sosnovka, or in any of the nearby villages,…
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