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tbA highlights: 28 October 2007

Pandas, Monkeys in India, Gimchi!

1. Chinese Panda Mauls Teenage Boy - China Digital Times
Gu Gu, an eight year old panda in the Beijing Zoo that is known for his bad temper mauled a 15 year old boy, luckily the boy is still alive and is only missing some flesh from his legs.

2. 65% of Women Unable to Make Gimchi: Survey - Korea Times
Gimchi (Use to be known as Kimchi) is Korea’s most famous dish, but the fermented vegetables dish seems to be going extinct with 65% of Korean women being unable to make it. This is due to the expensive ingredients and time-consuming process required.

3. 10 Most Memorable Korean TV Commercials - AsianOffbeat
Here’s 10 of Korean most popular TV commercials, from LG Electronics commercial in 1995 to Nongshim Ramyeon instant noodles commercials in 1975, a wide variety of brilliantly made commercials that have captured Korea’s attention.

4. Book Fanatic: Asia’s Bestselling Books This Month - AsiaOffbeat
A list of Asia’s most popular books.

5. Rising seas threaten 21 mega-cities - Yahoo!News
With global warming increasing sea levels, many mega cities in Asia and around the world might just be the next Venice, or worse…

6. Monkeys attack Delhi politician - BBC
It seems the animals in Asia are very violent this week, first Gu Gu and now a monkey in India that killed the deputy mayor of Delhi. The monkey hasn’t been captured yet and this event shows the problems of the increasing populations of monkeys in Delhi.

7. Final Fantasy Wii ware - Dark Diamond
Looks like Square Enix is teaming up with Nintendo to bring you a new game called: Final Fantasy Crystal chronicles: The crystal bearers. The art looks fabulous, go check it out!





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