Every year Travel + Leisure releases their list of the world’s best hotel awards ranking the top accommodation options. Looking at the top hotels list for hotels and resorts in Asia 2009, India, Thailand, China and Hong Kong dominate the list. Following are the top Asian hotels in the best world hotels list for [...]
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 female [...]
Yep, Miss World 2008 – Asian style. This event will be held during December. Last year is was China that both hosted Miss World and took the title with Zhang Zilin (张梓琳). (UPDATE : Miss World 2008 is Miss Russia) Here are some of this year’s East Asian contestants : Miss China – Yan Ling [...]
There are a few world university rankings that came out during the past few months and so it’s an opportunity to refresh my rankings watchlist for Asia’s best universities. Various other rankings posts include: Top Asian Academic Universities in World University Rankings 2009 Asian academic research and the top research universities in Asia 2007 Best [...]
This year’s Miss Universe is in Nha Trang, Vietnam. Last year, 2007, it was the Japanese Royi Mori who made us proud (?) and took the Miss Universe 2007 title. (Updated : Miss Venezuela Danyana Mendoza was chosen as Miss Universe 2008) Following are the Asian contestants for Miss Universe 2008 from : China, India, [...]
Which universities are the top universities in Asia? What are the best Asian university programs? How do those rank when compared to other top universities and programs around the world? Following is a complete list according to the different rankings available around the world. Top 50 Asian Universities from Shanghai Jiao-Tung University’s Top 100 Asia Pacific [...]
Asian Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea and Hongkong share the five fastest climbing national economies rankings with Israel, The Economist reports. I find it amazing that both Taiwan and Israel (and maybe Singapore), facing complicated economical and political difficulties in their region with some of their neighbors, are able to keep demonstrating incredible growth and are high on [...]
What do you think the Asian stereotype is in Israel? how do Israelis perceive somebody Asian they see or meet in the streets of Jerusalem or Tel-Aviv? Since I can’t use very good quantitive research methods, I’ll result to using my simple qualitative methods which are based on my acquaintance with my Asian friends and a [...]
