Thursday, June 9, 2011

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Gallery: India's monsoon arrives early

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 03:47 AM PDT

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Australia vs. the cane toad: Fair fight?

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:37 AM PDT

cane toad

A plague of cane toads -- the Godzilla of the amphibian world -- is overrunning Australia. Breeding faster than rabbits, impervious to predators, the cane toads are gradually making their way south and west across the continent.

And Australians seem powerless to stop them.

The cane toad -- "Bufo marinus" -- was introduced to Australia in 1935 to keep down pests. It can locate food by smell, shrug off water loss and migrate 85 kilometers during a wet season.

As drought-breaking rains have smothered the continent, the toads have gone forth and multiplied. And multiplied again. And again.

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Video: Around, inside and underneath Beijing

Posted: 09 Jun 2011 02:10 AM PDT

Yes we went to the Great Wall, but we also went to some places many locals don't even know about, thanks to some knowledgeable friends.

We discovered hutongs, homebrew and a whole load of history. 

 

Part 1:

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YouTube Box Office: Google's new channel for Bollywood blockbusters

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 11:50 PM PDT

YouTube Box Office

"Long-form premium content like movies is emerging as a big category on YouTube and we are committed to bringing movies across all genres to our users," said Gautam Anand, director of Google's content partnerships for the JAPAC region, a few months ago when Shemaroo launched its popular YouTube Bollywood movie channel.

Yesterday afternoon Google quietly announced on Twitter the launch of its own version, the YouTube Box Office.

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Drinking robots, Thailand's biggest buddhas, Google goes Bollywood

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 10:25 PM PDT

CanBot: When drinking and robots collide

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 09:47 PM PDT

Next time you reach for a can of beer-flavored drink in Tokyo, just be careful it doesn't sprout legs and phone home to its secret base on the dark side of the moon to call in the heavies.

That's more likely than ever, thanks to one Japanese inventor's robot-in-a-tin creation, the cunningly named CanBot -- a stunning mashup of drinking and hardcore geekery.

Plain sight

While we don't know the name of the gentleman in question, we can establish that he's something of a whizz with DIY robotics that can conceal themselves as everyday objects.

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5 Beijing bands you may not know now, but will soon

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 07:01 PM PDT

Editor's note:This article was inspired by CNNGo TV's exploration of Beijing. Watch the show on the CNN TV channel -- international air times can be found here. All related articles can be seen below.

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88 件今夏在香港必做之事

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 05:02 PM PDT

夏日香港

I love going to the cinema. If I'm passionate about a movie, I'll go see it twice. After all, that is the best way for the audience to show support. Vote with your bums -- buy a ticket and add to the movie's box office gross.

Recently there were some really great Hong Kong-made low-budget movies. 

Take "Echoes of the Rainbow" in 2010 as a stellar example. The Berlin Film Festival awardee became a critical and commercial success, garnering HK$23 million at the box office. It was financed by the Hong Kong Film Development Fund and considered a triumph of good filmmaking over investment capital.

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Beauty in the eye of the blogger

Posted: 08 Jun 2011 02:59 PM PDT

She racks up 7,000 visits a day on average, with an accumulated 8.8 million hits as of mid May this year. Such is the attention Suhyun Kim's blog (blog.naver.com/haruna85) attracts with its make-up and skincare product reviews.

"I have always loved make-up and thought, 'I will just try it,'" says Kim, 27, reminiscing about how she got into blogging. "You see, I was a college student on vacation without much to do back home in a small city."

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