Tuesday, September 28, 2010

“# 1 Chinese General Blog – Sinocidal” plus 7 more

“# 1 Chinese General Blog – Sinocidal” plus 7 more


# 1 Chinese General Blog – Sinocidal

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:36 AM PDT


I mentioned that I was going to visit the 141 blogs aggregated at Chinalyst and introduce them here over the coming days/weeks for PanAsianBiz readers.

The number of blogs about China in English are growing and there is plenty to read for those interested in the goings on in China and reading about it from different perspectives.china.blog.award.winner.jpg

The number one blog in the General Chinese Blog category is Sinocidal.

Recent posts by Sinocidal -

Run The Risk!

Hangzhou Rocks…. NOT!

Everything you need to know about Japan.

White Hunter

Etiquette while in China – learn about it here for free.

Tell Sinocidal that PanAsianBiz sent you. 

 

 

 

 

Legend Lata Mangeshkar Turns 81

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 11:21 AM PDT


Lata Mangeshkar the legendry nightingale of Indian cinema, she turned 81 years old on September 28, 2010. The Guinness Record holding singer started her career at 13 years in 1942. Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and also theatre actor. Her very famous sisters, Asha Bhosle and Usha Mangeshkar also known as best singer in Indian film industry.


She started her career with song 'Naachu Yaa Gade' in the Marathi movie Kiti Hasaal in 1942. The singer was also honored by Bharat Ratna.
The singer has given her voice to approximately every actress of Bollywood. She has already sung for more than 1,000 films.
Lata Mangeshkar is latadi for many Bollywood stars and she has matchless singer in India. We also wish her long live.

Source – Indiasummary

Mercedes Will Manufacture City Buses Soon

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 10:59 AM PDT


Opulence car manufacturing company Mercedes-Benz India is ready to setup a new-fangled facility to manufacture metropolis bus at Chakan plant in Pune. Facility will have capacity of 700 units in year and will become operational by year 2011.


Wilfried Aulbur, managing director and CEO of Mercedes-Benz India laid foundation stone for the new facility at present the company is producing 100 bus chassis per month on a single shift basis at the Pune plant.
Wilfried Aulbur said "they have invested Rs 300 crore on the Pune plant." In the last quarter of 2008 Mercedes-Benz introduced its two-axle luxury coaches and the multi-axle coaches at Auto Expo in 2010 in the Indian market.

Source – IBEF

RIM Launched New Blackberry Playbook Tablet

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 09:56 AM PDT


Research in motion (RIM) has launched its Blackberry Playbook simply appears like a iPad. In competition of iPad's and Tablet number of brand are trying hard like big business icon Apple and Blackberry also did same by giving edge to the competition by pulling out Blackberry Playbook Tablet.


Potential customer will find dualcore processor of 1GHz and 1 Gigabyte RAM, the website shows the feature enhancing the multitasking capabilities of Blackberry Playbook.
Enterprise ready, Face to face conversation, ultimate multimedia, and fastest tablet are major feature which will be available in Blackberry Playbook.


These are some of ultimate feature of Blackberry Playbook

• 7-inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
• BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
• 1 GHz dual-core processor
• 1 GB RAM
• Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
• Approximately 0.9 lb or 400g

Source – Engadget / Product Review

Solar-Energy-Powered Toy

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 07:34 AM PDT


No rough edges…check.

No batteries….check.

No lead in the paint…check.

China needs desperately to come up with something that can pass all the safety standards and be in no danger of a recall.

How about something that is also environmentally friendly…always a good

buzz-word.

China has a solar-energy-powered toy that can turn the sunlight and lamplight into electricity….so that when it just sits there it takes much much longer to burn up energy.

I give up…what's the little five-leaf clover thingee do?

Ayodhya verdict on Sept 30, All states put on high alert

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 04:45 AM PDT



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The Indian Supreme Court today gave a green signal to the Allahabad High Court to give its verdict on the Ayodhya Ram Temple/Babri MAsjid dispute, dismissing a petition that sought its deferment.

“The verdict will be announced on 30th (September) at 3:30 p.m. (1000 GMT),” said Subodh Sahay, registrar of the court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.

The Economic times writes Former bureaucrat Ramesh Chandra Tripathi had filed the petition for deferring the high court verdict on the Babri Masjid-Ramjanmabhoomi title suit in Ayodhya till the end of the Commonwealth Games.

Ayodhya verdict: All states put on high alert

An apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia, Justice Aftab Alam and Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan passed the brief order when the court reassembled after lunch break Tuesday.

Speaking for the bench, Chief Justice Kapadia said: “Having heard the arguments in detail, we are of the view that the petition deserves to be dismissed.”

Attorney General G. Vahanvati told the court: “If there is any possibility of the settlement (out of court), we will welcome it but at the same time we don’t want any uncertainty to continue.”

“For the sake of maintaining law and order, we cannot keep security forces in sustained animation,” he added.

The apex court last week ordered an interim stay on the pronouncement of the title suit verdict by the high court, acting on a petition by Tripathi.

With the dismissal of Tripathi’s petition, the decision on when to pronounce the verdict now rests with the high court.

China Moves On Intellectual Property Rights Of Foreign Textbooks

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 03:34 AM PDT


Chinese universities have banned illegally copied foreign textbooks.

The Ministry of Education has given universities until the end of the year to clean up its act.

Chinese universities and students aren’t able to afford the higher quality textbooks…thus they resort to photocopying them.

It’s no surprise. American students can’t afford to buy textbooks either. The textbook companies ‘renew’ the books every year as well to keep students from passingtextbook.jpg them on to underclassmen.

China’s largest private English school, the New Oriental School, was sued by U.S.-based Educational Testing Service because NOS copied and sold test materials.

The fine was $450,000.

China seems to be getting more and more serious about intellectual property rights.

As a textbook writer, I applaud this initiative and hope to see it carried through.

I also wish textbook publishers would make their products more afforadble.

What do you think?

Ayodhya Verdict Will Be Announced At Any Moment

Posted: 28 Sep 2010 01:41 AM PDT


The most awaited verdicts in the Indian history, 'Ayodhya verdict' will be given at 02:00pm today that is September 28, 2010 at the High Court of Allahabad. The verdict that will be given is for the land, which is claimed by the Hindus as well as the Muslims of the country.

Hindus have a belief that their deity, Ram was born at the place where the Babri Masjid existed and so had demolished the Masjid, situated in Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, in the year 1992. The verdict previously was scheduled for September 24, but the court ordered deferment and so the verdict will be given at 02:00pm today.

Ayodhya Verdict on Sept 30 , All states put on high alert Read more

Although, the political parties had committed to the Supreme Court of India that they would not harm the Masjid or Mosque in any manner while taking out rallies in 1992, but the commitment wasn't followed and broke in one of the biggest riots of the nation that killed more than 2,000 people.

Source: TOI

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