Articles on Peking
Super absorbent sponge sucks up 180 times its weight - Nov 11, 2009
Crave That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing ... Read story »Why the Chinese have come out with their own Kindle - Jul 22, 2009
Blogs At the Tokyo Digital Publishing Fair held earlier this month, the Founder Group Corp., a Japanese unit of Peking University and a major player in the Chinese IT sector, introduced a ... Read story »10,000 years of China tech--celebrating Chinese invention - May 7, 2009
Blogs Lets face it, in our break-neck, high-tech, don't look back culture, China tends to get a lot of flack for being--ahem--under-innovative. The number of articles written about China's IP infringement/piracy and ... Read story »Uber non-tech video--Modern Samurai - Apr 15, 2009
Blogs For the past couple of weeks, we've been much bothered by the "Nation of Servant" incident; the political unrest in Thailand; North Korea's long-range rocket launch; the Somalia pirates; and last but ... Read story »60,000 Beijing 2008 Olympics coin sets up for grabs - Jul 28, 2008
Crave Ever since the first Olympic coins were introduced in 1952 in Helsinki, the tradition has continued for all the Summer and Winter games. This year, the Beijing Olympics 2008 commemorative coins ... Read story »China's other techno train aims high - Jul 3, 2006
Blogs I've written about China's mag-lev train a couple of times, but it's another train altogether that's making headlines this week: The newly opened Qinqhai-Tibet Railway that links the Tibetan capital of ... Read story »Your face has 83 percent resemblance to Peking Roast Duck! - Jul 15, 2007
Blogs Presently in Japan, one of the hottest K-tai Web sites is Kaocheki, "Face checkie". Ah well, one of the silliest sites, I would say. By the way, you can't have access ... Read story »When videogames and nationalism collide - Jul 9, 2006
Blogs On average, the Chinese don't like the Japanese very much. The memory of the war has never entirely faded, not least because the Government ensures that it doesn't. I am often ... Read story »What if Yahoo abandoned China? - Jun 22, 2006
Blogs If you grew up in the US reading Marvel Comics you may remember the old What If? series. In What If?, the fates of Marvel superheroes were projected into alternate realities. ... Read story »Wikipedia unblocked in China - Oct 13, 2006
Blogs After being blocked for a year, Wikipedia is once again accessible from mainland China. For those of us who use it regularly, this is a big relief as we can now ... Read story »Jump to page: [1]
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