Recent Posts Tagged With 'asia'

• Nancy Ajram – Lebanese Pop Superstar

  Posted on Monday July 14th, 2008 at 16:05 in asia, Middle East, arabic, lebanon, young, pop music, Arab World, Beirut, east asia, lebanese, nancy ajram, downtown pop superstar

  Currently, I’m a kind of crazy about Arabic pop music. They sound different from those from East Asia. If you look at 10, 20 years ago, the Middle East was one of those few places where parents and children enjoyed the same music - and today there ...

• Slow Down Culture

  Posted on Tuesday June 3rd, 2008 at 11:05 in asia, europe, happiness, email, experiences, service, colleagues, stockholm, NASA, Company, volvo, message

  My friend Dr. Abdul Aziz forwarded this article to me and there is something that I think we can learn from it. I don’t know who wrote it. Almost all the sites that I went to got this article through email forwarded to them. I spent 50 hours at wor...

• The Criminalization of War

  Posted on Friday May 30th, 2008 at 11:05 in malaysia, asia, pride, europe, London, japanese, freedom, experiences, freedom of speech, war criminal, demand, developing

  When I was in Japan recently I had the opportunity to explain about Malaysia’s Non-Governmental Organization’s campaign to make war a punishable crime. The Japanese had been guilty of perpetrating brutalities during their Manchurian Incident and ...

• Asia’s Top 25 Billionaires 2008

  Posted on Friday May 23rd, 2008 at 11:05 in asia, donations, saudi arabia, industry, net worth, united arab emirates, abdul aziz, sulaiman, mohammed al amoudi, li ka shing, robert kuok, al ghurair

  Here’s the list of top 25 richest people in Asia compiled from Forbes.com. The list is dominated by Indians. Lakshmi Mittal - Citizenship: India, Net Worth: USD 45 bil, Industry: Manufacturing Mukesh Ambani - Citizenship: India, Net Worth: USD 43 ...

• Koreans’ BAC Tournament

  Posted on Monday April 21st, 2008 at 11:05 in asia, south korea, badminton, koreans, lee yong dae, s park

  South Korea’s Park Sung Hwan and double Lee Yong-dae-Jung Jae-sung won the men titles in the USD125,000 Badminton Asia Championships 2008 (BAC) tournament concluded recently in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. Social Bookmarking...

• South Korea - Welcome to the Space Club!

  Posted on Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at 20:13 in asia, Korea, experiences, visit, south korea, April, advertisers, international space station, engines, russian cosmonauts, korean foods, american astronaut

  On April 8, 2008 South Korea became the 36th country to send a person into orbit with its first astronaut - Yi So-yeon from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Space Center in central Asia. A Russian Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft was carrying Yi So-yeon and two Ru...

• Joyful Songkran Festival in Thailand

  Posted on Thursday April 3rd, 2008 at 11:19 in asia, male, happiness, teenagers, thailand, visit, image, tourist, parent, amazing, enjoy, festival

  Come and celebrate Songkran Festival (a.k.a Thai New Year) in Thailand from April 13 to April 15 every year. The word “Songkran” means move or change so this festival is the period that the sun moves close to our earth and all southeastern people...

• Michelle Yeoh - Asia’s Action Queen

  Posted on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008 at 23:12 in malaysia, asia, ferrari, London, hong kong, Jackie Chan, stunt, kung fu, jean todt, michelle yeoh, force of nature, royal academy of dance

  The Malaysian actress made her name in martial arts movies. She has enjoyed a string of successes by starring in hit movies such as Police Story 3 (1992), Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), and Memoirs of a Geisha (20...