‘Italo’, the Italian high speed train can travel at speeds of up to 360 kilometers per hour (223 miles per hour). This week, the high-tech train, built by France’s Alstom, which also invented the TGV, took a test run from Naples to Rome. Picuture taken on 20 April 2012 at the Tiburtina station in Rome, prior to its the maiden voyage.
Source: www.spiegel.de
![Tanks Entering Beijing: Rumors of a Possible Military Coup
One of the photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. For the past week or so. rumors circulated on internet, and social media like weibo of tanks entering Beijing, shots being fired in the city and a possible military coup. Those postings were quickly censored by the Chinese authorities. [Washington Post]
Picture source: WSJ.com](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1dpd095oR1qd5to8o1_1280.jpg)
Tanks Entering Beijing: Rumors of a Possible Military Coup
One of the photos posted online of tanks and other military vehicles moving around Beijing. For the past week or so. rumors circulated on internet, and social media like weibo of tanks entering Beijing, shots being fired in the city and a possible military coup. Those postings were quickly censored by the Chinese authorities. [Washington Post]
Picture source: WSJ.com
Jeremy Lin v. Kobe Bryant
Jeremy Lin (林書豪) is the first American player in the NBA to be of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. Watch the face-off between him and Kobe!
Taiwan Mandopop queen Feng Fei Fei died of lung caner in Hong Kong on Jan. 3 at age 59. The singer reportedly was not a smoker. With a singing career spanning four decades and countless awards, she asked her lawyers to keep her death a secret until after the Chinese New Year’s celebrations, fearing it would bring bad luck to her fans.
Chaos and On The Brink of Bankruptcy in Greece
As Greek lawmakers are struggling to keep the country solvent and within the eurozone, historic buildings went up in flames in central Athens on Sunday as black-masked protesters fought Greek police outside parliament February 12, 2012.
REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis
Year of The Dragon Opens In Beijing
The opening ceremony at a spring festival celebrates the Chinese Lunar New Year at Longtan Park in Beijing, Jan. 22, 2012. January 23 marks the end of the Year of the Rabbit and ushers in the dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac.
(Soo Hoo Zheyang/Reuters)
Photo Source: www.cbc.ca/
$300,000 Romain Jerome Watch That Does Not Tell Time
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome just launched the Day & Night watch that won’t tell you what time it is. But it does tell you whether it’s day or night.
You’d think people that can afford the watch could also afford at least one window somewhere to tell whether it’s day or night…..without a watch?
Photo credit: Luxist.com via WSJ.com
1.28 Million Yuan Gold Toilet Displayed in China
The 1.28 million RMB ($201,400) golden bowl is merely one of the many “novel sanitary wares” on display at the 11th World Toilet Summit and Expo that began on 22 Nov. in the Hainan provincial capital of Haikou.
(Seriously, I doubt this will be a hot seller in China even with rising middle class income.)
Source: shanghaiist.com
Meet Asimo: Honda’s New Humanoid Robot
Honda Motor Co.’s revamped human-shaped robot “Asimo” in Wako, near Tokyo, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. Asimo can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot, pour a drink and even almost “think” on its own. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
China Fashion Week with Annie Yi Performing
Watch out! New York, Paris, and Milan, check China Fashion week!
Chinese designer Qi Gang (祁刚) invited Taiwanese actress Annie Yi (伊能静) (Right) playing the role of “Green Snake” (青蛇) from a traditional Chinese folk tale with a model during a fashion show at China Fashion Week for Spring/Summer 2012 in Beijing October 27. 2011.
Photo by REUTERS/Jason Lee via Yahoo News
French Mirage 2000 Jet Blocked Qaddafi’s Escape
On Oct. 19, it was a French Mirage jet that fired to block Qaddafi’s escape from Sirte. Libyan fighters then moved in and killed the man who had ruled their country for 42 years.
Picture from Guardian.com showing a French Mirage 2000 jet fighter after returning from a mission over Libya. Photograph: ECPAD/HO/EPA
Lady Gaga Rocks The Marilyn Monroe Look
Lady Gaga performed at “A Decade of Difference”: A Concert: Celebrating 10 Years of the William J. Clinton Foundation in Los Angeles, CA on the evening of Saturday, October 15. (Photo by Stephanie Cabral/Yahoo!)
Beijing Fans Pay Tribute To Steve Jobs
From my Flickr collection:
Fresh apples, flowers and a large poster of Steve Jobs are placed outside an Apple retail store in Beijing, China, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2011. Jobs reportedly has never visited the city. Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple Inc. and father of the iPhone, has died at age 56 on Wed. Oct. 5.
(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
鍾鎮濤 - 讓一切隨風 (Kenny Bee - Let Everything Be Gone With the Wind) Kenny used to have a vacation home in Taipei right across from my home when I was really young. I remember he was very nice although he was and still is a super movie and pop star. Too bad what happened to his personl life in recent years.
事未過去 就已失蹤 此刻有種種心痛. 你似北風 吹走我夢 就讓一切隨風 (Our unfinished affair has come to a sudden end. My heart hurts in so many places. Like the chilly northern wind, you take my dream away. Just let everything be gone with the wind.)
Enrique Iglesias - Tonight & I Like It ft Pitbull - American Music Awards Nov. 2010
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