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December 16, 2005

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Daily linklets 16th December

ICG discusses North East Asia's undercurrents of conflict. They've even compiled a list of recommendations for the governments of China, USA, Japan and South Koera, but curiously none for the North Koreans.
A Catholic priest re-created a Vietnamese village in Houston but now is losing control of it.
Via FH comes Hong Kong Wong. A good laugh.
The Americans are challenging China's lead in the locked-up journalists' stakes.
Western media's misreading of China.
I know you shouldn't laugh, but...pig waste blocks Chinese town's taps.
Zheng He - the public face of China's new navy.
More controversy over the Korean stem cell pioneer Hwang Woo Suk.
China's hi-tech exports are not as worrying as some fear.
Asia's women folk need to fear: whitening masks and bacteria. Related is plastic surgery trends in China and America.
Politics and media control in Taiwan.
The Japanese farting wife survey.
The politics of why Yao Ming is not a great player. And Matt Yglesias compares Yao and Ewing.

posted by Simon on 12.16.05 at 12:54 PM in the Daily linklets category.

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