China Live, written by two Israeli girls living in Dong Guan (located at the Guangdong province in southern China), is a rare insight into how Israelis experience China. Having followed the blog for quite some time now, and after having met the two, I can recommend those who can read Hebrew and are into China [...]
I’m sure most of those who have a TV have heard about the Amazing Race, one of the most popular "reality" TV shows ever, but not many non-Israelis know that Israel with its TV audience of less than 5 million spread over more than 50 channels has managed to pull off a local Israeli version [...]
So far, I’ve been to two major Cosplay events. The first was in NCKU-Tainan-Taiwan (1, 2, 3, 4), and the second in Comic World in Hong Kong SAR (1, 2, 3). I’ve always wondered what an Israeli Cosplay event would look like, and a few weeks ago I finally found out. Scary scary stuff. I [...]
Quite by accident, I made my way to a forum topic discussing something I wasn’t really aware of before on the net. Turns out that some people claim there are quite a few American Jewish guys that choose Asian girls as their partner for life. Here’s an interesting look at things from an Asian [...]
Thanks to Ran, the best Israeli blog in China, I heard of this odd news piece. Israeli YNet recently reported that one of my all-time least liked songs "Heat of Tel-Aviv" received a Chinese version.
Compare the Israeli version…
To the Chinese one…
Which one do you like more? Did you like the Shabbat/Hannuka candle effect in the [...]
I’ve already touched on the topic in "Gaza, Israel and Taiwan" and would like to add a few references I came across recently to add to that discussion.
Danwei, which recently had the interesting pointer to the Chinese discussion on Israeli female soldiers I wrote about ("Israel’s female soldiers : Hot Israeli girls discussed in [...]
Israeli media, Reshet Bet this time, is discussing cross-strait relations.
Following is from Reshset Bet’s international hour on Dec. 15th on the opening of cross-strait flights, sea-travel and direct mail, interviewing one of the Hebrew University East-Asian department China-related experts Dr. Eli Yofe.
This is a capture of the chat, click to listen :
I’ll try and [...]
The other day, 12.12.2008, I was reading through news in the Hebrew version of Yedihut Acharonot, Israel’s largest news paper, as I came across an amazing headline. Here’s a screen-capture from Google Cache which still shows, thankfully (you can try your luck here).
The headline reads (translated from Reuters) : “Taiwan : Ex-president Chen Shui [...]
