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- Divers' funny faces become the highlight of FINA World Championships
- 'Dr. Sun Yat Sen' -- a revolution in modern Chinese opera
- Top 10 bike routes, deadly Thai village, most expensive drinks
- Gallery: Inside Thailand’s cobra village
- 在北京体验共产主义的8种方法
- 東京五大最佳 brunch 餐廳
- 10 breathtaking cycling routes
- The cyclewallahs of Mumbai
- Building a designer beach home in Japan
- アジアの路上でシャッターを切る
| Divers' funny faces become the highlight of FINA World Championships Posted: 25 Jul 2011 01:02 AM PDT While the Chinese are eyeing gold medals, the rest of the world is enjoying something even more intriguing The 16-day FINA World Championships is making headlines around the world as it enters its second week. China's best section, diving, wrapped up yesterday with the final of men's single 10-meter platform at Moon Bay Outdoor Diving Pool. Dark horse diver Qiu Bo (邱波) took home the gold with a total score of 585.45.      |
| 'Dr. Sun Yat Sen' -- a revolution in modern Chinese opera Posted: 24 Jul 2011 09:59 PM PDT Perhaps China's most innovative and contemporary opera to date, "Dr. Sun Yat Sen" is what composer Huang Ruo calls "a Western-style opera with Chinese characteristics." Apt, for its eponymous subject matter is Sun Yat Sen, considered the father of modern China -- an iconic revolutionary for the Chinese-speaking world who himself embodied the merging of East and West. A Christian fluent in English but always viewed as an authentic native son by the Chinese, Sun integrated Western political theory into his blueprints for a Chinese republican government.    |
| Top 10 bike routes, deadly Thai village, most expensive drinks Posted: 24 Jul 2011 08:28 PM PDT    |
| Gallery: Inside Thailand’s cobra village Posted: 24 Jul 2011 07:58 PM PDT At Ban Kok Sa-Nga, nearly every home has a pet snake. But the top handler's mangled fingers are proof that these deadly friends don't always play nice It's difficult to feel at ease when walking around Ban Kok Sa-Nga, in Thailand's northeast province of Khon Kaen. Despite appearances, this quiet little village is the stuff of nightmares and bad Samuel L. Jackson movie plots. Better known among tourists as simply "The Cobra Village," almost all of Ban Kok Sa-Nga's 140 or so homes have at least one pet snake living in a wooden box outside, from massive king cobras and deadly monocled cobras to less dangerous species like pythons and copperheaded racers. It all started about 60 years ago, when a local doctor decided it was time to reinvent the village and convinced his fellow villagers to start acquiring snakes for their homes and put them in shows to attract tourists.    |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT 就在七月建党90周年之际，中国共产党加大了宣传颂扬革命光辉故事和"伟大舵手"毛泽东的力度。 不过，在首都北京进行的这次探访毛主席的"非正式"旅程，会让你更近距离地体会到建党纪念活动的精髓。
1. 毛主席纪念堂
1976年毛主席去世以后，他的遗体被安放在这座带有苏联风格的纪念堂中供世人瞻仰；标示牌上指示游客脱帽并保持肃静，不过那些戴着白手套的门卫会一脸恼火地数落那些打着手机聊天不够庄重的游客，把他们拦在外面。 需要早点去，纪念堂中午以后就关门了。 上午8点至中午；北京东城区长安街天安门广场
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| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 05:00 PM PDT Brunch 是一門學問。 必須給予它的原意應有的尊重：於一個悠閒的週末，與三五知己慢慢品嚐，再配點小酒，回味前一晚宿醉放肆的故事。 生鵪鶉蛋不錯，可是醉飲一夜後，澱粉質、油脂，再加點解醉酒更為適合。 1. Roti Roppongi這家的 brunch 長久以來深受讚譽，由早上 11 時半供應至下午 5 時，美式餐單上的選擇豐富，包括典型 brunch ﹣﹣ 奄列和班戟，以及許多標準菜式及香脆可口的炸塊。 他們的 Mimosa 雞尾酒以鮮橙汁調製，客人還可加入週末 brunch club，每惠顧 ¥15,000（$1,500 港元）可獲免費 brunch 一客。 露天雅座空間寬敞，可讓小朋友隨意走動，最適合一家大小和疲累的父母前來用餐。 豐富的松露薯條也絕不讓人失望。 東京 106-0032 港區六本木 6-6-9 Piramide Building 1樓，+81 (0) 3 5785 3671， www.roti.jp 2. Two Rooms    |
| 10 breathtaking cycling routes Posted: 24 Jul 2011 03:00 PM PDT If you're anything like us, any major sporting event makes you feel compelled to go out and play that sport. So it was that with the finale of the Tour de France last week. You may not be able to speed pedal 200 kilometers, but why would you when some of the best cycling routes in the world pass through such beautiful scenery? Here are 10 of world's best bike routes for cyclists who either are up for breaking a good sweat or simply seeing the world without leaving an ugly carbon footprint behind.
1. The Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia    |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:58 PM PDT The Barclays Cycle Hire scheme in London is more popularly referred to as Boris' Bikes, after Mayor Boris Johnson who promoted the idea. As an attempt to reduce central traffic congestion, Barclays Cycle Hire has been a user success, as the Paris Velib program proved earlier. Both worked because of sensible charges, ease of use, readily available docking stations and cycle lanes to boot. None of this exists in Mumbai. Nor do we have an inspired mayor. Frankly, Mumbai citizens in their daily grind on tough terrain, have very little bandwidth for stopping to think of a more eco-friendly way to live.    |
| Building a designer beach home in Japan Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:55 PM PDT Architect Alastair Townsend runs the Tokyo-based practice BAKOKO. Over the coming months his company will be building a modern beach house in Chiba. Here he reveals more about the process -- and future articles will provide updates on just how a designer beach home comes to life: Last September we were approached by a couple wanting to build a small beach house in the seaside town of Onjuku on Chiba's Pacific coast. The Australian husband -- a keen surfer with sea salt in his blood -- and his Japanese wife wanted a weekend escape from their daily grind in Tokyo.    |
| Posted: 24 Jul 2011 02:00 PM PDT 敬けんなヒンズー教徒がタイプーサム祭の準備をしている。胸部と腹部全体に小さなフックを肌に引っ掛ける苦行の儀式が非常に印象的だ。 背景は厳冬の北京。男は下着一枚で氷のように冷たいプールの脇に立っている。 シンガポール総選挙期間中、労働者党の集会で、支持者が党旗やプラカードで飾ったヘルメットをかぶっている。群集の一人が、「500kgs.」と書かれた党のシンボルである巨大なハンマーを支えているのが見える。 これらはみな、路上写真家ケビン・WY ・リー氏の写真である。彼は 2010 年 4 月、路上の様子を撮影した写真やビジュアルニュースを掲載したインターネットサイト Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA) を立ち上げた。 -- invisiblephotographer.asia -- 同サイトには、写真エッセイ、路上写真、記録写真やビデオ、ビジュアルニュース記事が公開されており、トルクメニスタンからベトナムまで、アジア全域を網羅している。    |
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