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Traditional Chinese shoes are being handmade in Taoshan Township in Hanshan County, east China’s Anhui Province with unique Tiger designs just perfect for 2010 Year of the Tiger.
These cute little Tiger Shoes are being sold in local markets and are in demand since the Chinese Lunar New Year is drawing near.
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20-year old Tokyo native, Nobuyuki Tsujii, become the first Japanese pianist to win a gold medal at the Van Cliburn international piano competition. Nobuyuki Tsujii has been blind since birth but learned to play the piano by listening to recordings, is also the first blind pianist to win the competition.
He won $20,000 and will go on a concert tour with the other finalists. He’ll also be giving a series of concerts in Japan.
Watch the video of his performance..
Isabella Leong Lok-si, 21 and Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, 43 has been recently blessed with a son. Ethan Li Changzhi, born April 26 weighing 7 pounds and was born by natural delivery.
The couple has sparked rumors of them having a relationship in 2008, and rumors of Isabella being pregnant was circulating early this year. The uprising Eurasian actress has also been involved in a contract dispute with her management company, Emperor Entertainment Group (EEG). Early last year the Isabella was accused of breaking the 10-year contract her mother stuck in her behalf when she was just 10 years old. Thankfully, the contract dispute ended well, (probably Richard’s doing, eh??:P) and ended in out of court settlement.
Isabella said she has no immediate plans to return to work, but I do hope she would resume her career sometime. She is very talented and has a very bright future ahead..
All’s well and good then. Congratulations and cheers for the new baby..
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A county in central China have told officials to smoke about a quarter million packs of locally made cigarettes annually. Those departments failing to puff their cigarette consumption targets will be fined.
The Gong’an county government in the Hubei province ordered its staff to smoke around 230,000 packs per year of cigarette brands produced in the province. The regulation is aimed to boost the local economy via the cigarette tax.
The Global Times reports that this measure could be a tactic to help Hubei cigarette brands such as Huanghelo, which are under strain from competitors in the Hunan province.
China has a big number of smokers about 350 million and from this number, about a million a year die of smoking related diseases.
LATEST: The puff or else order was repealed due to public outrage. Ever since the order made headlines around the world, it has triggered massive criticism that it was a outrageous waste of government money. Under public pressure, the county government backed down and has announced on its website that the order is now pending review…
Check out the map for Hubei Province, China..