Escaping the Otaku Obsession

The otaku culture was once unique to Japan, where people over 20 years old retreat from the world by funneling all their time, money and energy into odd hobbies. The otaku is obsessed over animation, characters, the techniques of media creation etc..

Controversial Investigation: "Midnight Cowboy" in Shenzhen

During April and May of 2006, Fang Gang, a doctoral student at Renmin University China, lurked in a club in Shenzhen to make an undercover investigation of male prostitutes. "Sex work is just a kind of profession, ,a personal career option," he said.

HK-Shenzhen Link a Win-win Situation

The discussion on economic integration of Hong Kong and Shenzhen is about the future development of the two regions. The new trade policy concerns the huge investment by Hong Kong businesses in the Pearl River Delta area in the past decades.

Fan Gang: China Needs a High Rate of Investment

encouraging the farmers to spend money is not the way to boost consumption in China. As with the increase in farmer's income and consumption ...

"Paying Crisis" Not to Haunt China

Professor Fan Gang addressed the Asian Financial Crisis and Chinese economy in the "Asian Financial Crisis — 10th Anniversary Symposium" in Guangzhou. He thinks The "paying crisis" will probably not occur in China.

Are Asian Newspapers Under Siege?

In a fragmenting information world, readers and advertisers are migrating to the Internet at an ever-increasing pace. Asia's dailies are looking for ways to cope with change. Free newspapers are joining the raid on circulation and advertising.

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