Japanese Women : Looking for a Western Husband!
A growing number of Japanese women are giving up on their male counterparts, and taking a gamble that looking abroad for love will bring them the qualities in a partner that seem rare at home.
Mr. Right, as the hope goes, is often an American or European, a man appreciative of a wife’s career and more [...]
China Women - The Myth of the West : Kaifang
Orientalism is a powerful idea in Western culture. It has associations with being strange, foreign, representing the Other. It conjures up images of an ancient society, filled with squinty-eyed inscrutable men with long queues, willowy women with painted faces and silk dresses, and benign-looking old men with fists of steel and mouths full of riddles. [...]
Media Shaping The Youth Vs. The Youth Shaping The Media
Speech delivered by: Arnold Clavio of GMA7
As part of my investigative work on the current situation of our youth in the country today, I met Sheila, then a promising 16-year old high school student. After joining a fraternity, her path life took a downward turn and soon she was hooked into illegal drugs and premarital [...]
Solutions To Social & Business Problems, Building A Better Society
Speech delivered by: Francis Kong
It seems that our country is very confused. We seem to have our priorities mixed up. It has been observed that while the rest of the world is breaking records in the fields of science and technology, the Philippines is breaking records in having the most number of kissing couples on [...]
Multi-Dimensional Challenges To The Successor-Generation Of Filipino Leaders
Speech delivered by: Dr. Cielito F. Habito
When I entered government service, I had to shed my “economist hat” and become more holistic in my approach in looking at our country’s development. In a sense, our youth as the successor-generation of Filipino leaders, must also be multi-dimensional in creating solutions to our country’s problems. To be [...]
Premier of Beijing National Culture Center of Performing Arts.
Doors of National Culture Center in Beijing, rumors and disputes about which long were tearing the audience, have opened for the premier show in front of selected audience: government officials, construction workers and VIP guests.
On Tuesday, September 25th , classical ballet of 70th “The Red Detachment of Women” was staged in one of concert halls [...]
Boxing Is Not Popular In China
During the International Invitational Boxing Tournament held in Beijing on 17-22 November, not many fans showed up and Chinese athletes didn’t get any medals, despite quite big number representing national team. That confirmed the fact of unpopularity of this sport in China. Besides, Chinese culture lack cult and worship of muscular man, as Achilles from [...]
Charice Pempengco - The Little Diva
Charice Pempengco, a native of the Philippines is a young singer who achieved fame through YouTube when one of her fans posted her jaw dropping videos.
Charice Pempengco started joining singing competition in the Philippines when she was 4 years old. Lately, Charice Pempengco made a name for herself when she won 3rd place in ABS-CBN’s [...]
Yellow Fever - Asian Women
Western men and Asian ladies seem to have special attraction to each other that does not exist between western ladies and Asian men, or western men and African ladies. Sometimes referred to as “yellow fever”, once a western man has been with an Asian lady, many find it difficult to go back to a western [...]
Asian Culture That I Dislike - India
“In a culture that idolizes sons and dreads the birth of daughters, to be born female comes perilously close to being born less than human”, the Indian government conceded in a recent report by its Department of Women and Child Development in a Washington Post report dated April 25, 1993.
This is one of the Asian [...]