Another week, another chaos

Two Chinese express passenger trains collided and both derailed in Zibo, Shangdong, at least 70 died and over 400 injured, including four French tourists. (French, hmn?)

A Chinese stock analyst working for Nomura Stock Brokerage in Tokyo was arrested along with two other Chinese friends, for charges of involved in insider trading.

Chinese Arms ship to Zimbabwe was floating with no success of unloading arms to Mugebe government, at the same time, Japan-African summit is opened up.


Koreans were upset by Chinese protesters turned violent this weekend when the Olympic torch passed in Seoul. While on Saturday, the torch passed in Nagano, Japan managed a smooth operation amid protesters.


Increasing air pollution in China Concerns Japanese a bit, the smog days in Tokyo will not far away?

Monday Briefing

Oil rises further to $117 per gallon.


Paris honors Dalai Lama with honorable citizen. After a big mess during the torch rally and boycott of Carrfour in CHina, Does Paris purpose agitate Beijing or what?



CNN got protested in NYC by Chinese students, after a big on in LA this weekend.


Reporters without Borders President plans to protest in Nagano during the Olympic torch rally.


Beijing Motor Show opens.


Are you concerned about rising food prices everywhere?

Scary Shanghai Street "Dentist"

Chinese text message calls for boycotting of Carrfour, the French retailers who has 112 stores in China. The test message cites the reason as Carrfour donates a large amount of money to Dalai Lama. Not only Carrfour, French president Sarkozy also got criticized for calling for dailogue between Beijing and Dalai as a precondition for going to the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony


At the same time, delegates from Dalia touched base with Beijing.


Chinese student stage protests again Dalai in Seattle, who is attending a student event. Students from the both sides had a brief exchange but no violence reported.


No Certificate? No Problem!
No Training? No Problem!
Shanghai Street Self made dentist can do things for you? Do you dare to try? Take a look at this TBS video.

More Yasukuni Movie Movements

One of the key person portrait in the movie Yasukuni has asked to cut his screens. A Japanese sword craftsman in his 90s, he had received phone calls from a congress member, and has since requested to not using his images. When being asked by media, he showed regrets and blamed Chinese director Li Ying for lack of trust. (TBS News)


A Chinese collector pays a 9.3million dollars for French President Sarkozy wife's nude photos.(Asahi)


Chinese authority ask Malaysia and Indonesia section of Beijing Olympic Torch rallys to make running course secret.(Asahi)


UN General Secretary Ban Ki Mon said he notified Beijing months ago for deciding not to go for the opening ceremony. (Asahi)

Japanese Have To Get Names Back In China

Japanese enterprise in Dalian, China got shut down for eight years because its president refused a bribe request from a local Chinese judge.


Chinese Boshan Steel is buying world's largest mining company, Australian-UK owned BHP Billton?


Hillary Clinton urges Bush not to go to Beijing Olympics opening ceremony


Japanese find most of their brand names have been registered by Chinese companies and even individuals in China, even 36 out of 47 prefectures have their names "taken" in China, one such Prefecture, Kajoshima has to filed a legal case trying to get it's name back.

More Yasukuni Showing in Japan

If you have been following me on the Movie YASUKUNI, you will know, What I guessed turns out to be true.

Just when three Tokyo theaters, under threat and fear of right wing force, canceled mid April showings of the documentary YASUKUNI, and the news caught national and international news media coverage like spring wild fire, suddenly there are 21 theaters in Japan have decided to showing the movie, that is three more than previously 18 theaters before the news breakout. AND, I will be not surprised to see more to step forward, since by now the curiosity of Japanese audience have been spiced up, why not?

But, take a step back and think such a scenario, if the big audience indeed go and check out the movie, AND they find out the movie to be "Pro-China" as some Japanese LDP members claimed after they saw it, then the question is, does the movie really serve well the purpose of "Letting the Japanese aware the History Truth"?

For now, it looks like a good start, if the box office sells well, it may well end up returning the fund it received from Japan's Ministry of Culture, just as the LDP members asked.