3 years after I wrote about the first signs of the Israeli Chinese studies trend and there are signs that the trend is still going strong (see “The Chinese Language Studies Trend in Israel” and “Channel 2 story : Israelis studying Chinese” for more info). Every once in a while, Israeli news channels rediscover this [...]

I know a few cross-cultural couples who live in Israel and every once in a while when I go back to Israel I get to meet a few more. It’s only natural, since I am on the Israel-Asia line and many of the people I know are western expats living in Asia or Asians living [...]

The Miss Universe 2010 just ended, with Mexico taking the title. A few years ago when I started doing those Asian Miss Universe comparisons (see end of the post), I was going through the Miss Universe Asian models to try and sense some of the differences in appearance between the Asian nations – as the [...]

CCTV, China’s national TV channel(s), produced a documentary TV series about Israel called “Walk into Israel – The Land of Milk and Honey” (走近以色列, zou jin yiselie). There was a recent launch event , and the episodes are already screening in China and available on the web.   Israeli TV station Channel 2 had an [...]

Looking for the best universities in Asia? There are so many rankings and lists out there, so it gets confusing. Let me try and help you…   Following is the top world university rankings for the Asian academic universities analyzed for year 2010. These rankings vary in methodology and the things they evaluate. These do [...]

Seems as though the Israeli content on China is growing fast. Not a week goes by where I find a new blog or community regarding the connection between Israel and China. At the beginning, the content was very personalized and scattered, but in recent months you could say there’s actually alot of interesting things going [...]

China’s Dead Sea or Salt Lake, located at Penglai Township in Dayin County of southwest China’s Sichuan province, recently received some Israeli media attention. Turns out the Chinese wanted to visit the dead sea in Israel so badly, they just opened one themselves. It offers salty hot springs, mud bathes, and made to look and [...]

Asaf Avidan & the Mojos, one of the more interesting Israeli musicians in the last year or so, have taken part in the Midi Festival 2010 in China. Here’s my translation of Mako.co.il : […] In the last couple of days, Avidan and the Mojos performed in two music festivals in front of thousands. During [...]