Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Edison Chen: CNN Interview


Unless you've been living under a rock you already know about the Edison Chen Sex Photo scandal. Here is his first formal interview since the incident last year.

Source: CNN TalkAsia



He has been at the center of Asia's biggest sex scandal, but now actor Edison Chen has broken his silence on the public episode that has ended careers and caused him to face at least one reported death threat.

Talking exclusively to CNN on his return to Hong Kong, where he had been forging a career in the movies, Chen reveals his side of the scandal that broke in early last year when hundreds of sexually explicit photos of Chen with other celebrities turned up on the Internet.

"There's been a lot of talk through the past year and a half about this or that and a lot of rumors, a lot of hearsay, and I feel, you know, I've kept quiet just to kind of respect everyone and respect the law," Chen told CNN


There are 3 parts: Scandal, Photos and The Women.

If the embeded videos don't work they can be seen here The embedding on CNN is working at times.. it's kind of stupid.







What do you think? I thought he sounded very upfront and sincere. The pictures are very old and his current girlfriend made him delete everything "empty trashcan".

And again the people who spread his photos are so stupid. No money? No blackmail? Just for laughs? Hope the guy rots in jail.

Monday, May 25, 2009

China’s Ban on Blogger Blogs

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Source: Blogging Tips



There has been much speculation about China’s recently imposed “blanket ban” of all Blogger powered blogs. Some believe this is intended to quell references to the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident, while others wonder if this is a technical difficulty as hinted on Blogger’s Known Issues page.

In either case, this ban affects blogs hosted on the *blogspot.com subdomain (approximately 275 million) and also those who use a custom domain for their Blogger blogs (statistics of which are very difficult to gather). Here are the results of accessibility tests from WebsitePulse which show whether sites are accessible from within China

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Seems the internet gets censored whenever there is an 'unpleasant' anniversary.

The simplest way to discover if your blog (or website) is inaccessible from within China is to use this free tool from WebSitePulse. Paste the URL of your blog in the window and hit enter. After a few moments, you will be presented with results which show if your blog can be accessed from China and comparitively with other servers from different continents.


Yup. Degenerasian is banned!

Monday, May 18, 2009

Viaduct Bridge Collapses in China

An elevated road on Hongqi Road of Zhuzhou City in Hunan province collapsed, and at present the number of casualties is said to be at 9.


Youtube Link

Sad :(

What surprises me about the video, is not the fact a bridge collapsed in China, bridges can collapse anywhere, but how they get this footage! For a country where all media is censored, state tv often shows disasters or suicides very close up. you can see rescue workers, blood, limbs, bodies etcc.. This was the case during the earthquake last year as well where literally pictures of dead children were beamed around the world. Something that would not be allowed in the US. On American news we hear of death and disaster but often the camera and reporters are kept at a distance.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Super Junior Star Mistaken for Kim Jong-il's Son


Source: chosun.com



Yesung of the Korean boy band Super Junior was confused with the third son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il by Swiss daily Blick.

The tabloid mistakenly published a picture of Yesung in a piece on Kim Jong-un, apparently confused by the fact that Yesung's real name is Kim Jong-woon.

Blick is Switzerland's largest-circulation tabloid. Yesung appeared on the front page and headline news on page 14. The news soon reached the web board of a South Korean portal site and is quickly spreading all over the Internet.

"We confirmed the news through the Internet as well and have asked Blick for a correction," a spokesperson for Super Junior said.


Funny thing is that Europeans now know who he and his boy-band are and may take a quick listen to his music. Girls can swoon over him.

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Hmmm another guy way too girly for me!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Edison's First Media Scrum Since Scandal





Source: Straits Times Razor Tv

Edison landed in Singapore the other day and was bombarded by media. To me he looks a bit thinner and a bit older but still very very nice :)

Link to Interview

I would embed the video but the code given is wrong. Some incompetent coder at The Straits Times

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Gay Asians criticize Oscar speech's TV censorship

Source: MacLean's


Gay Asians voiced indignation Wednesday after television broadcasts of the Academy Awards in their region censored the words "gay" and "lesbian" in speeches that called for equal rights for homosexuals.

The speeches by actor Sean Penn and writer Dustin Lance Black - who won Oscars for their work in "Milk" - were shown in full during live broadcasts of the Oscars that were screened across Asia on Monday morning.


It's still taboo. Ask any of our parents and they object. Heck heterosexual sex is frowned upon let alone gay relationships.

Censorship always bothers me in but Asia everything is censored. Anything that doesn't sound right is taken out

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Rocket Ronnie

Ah I love Ronnie O'Sullivan.

Mostly because of this:



He's so exciting and flamboyant.

And also for things like this

Raunchy Ronnie in trouble over lewd comments in Beijing


The comments were ignored, though, by Chinese media.

"At the post game press conference, O'Sullivan kept his gentlemanly manners," said a report in the Today Morning Express, while the Beijing News reported he had shown no signs of disappointment and was "smiling and looking around."

Ah Chinese media not reporting something bad.. surprise surprise. Apparently there is no such thing as bad news in China.

That is not my concern though. My concern is.. why is the Snooker Association fucking apologizing? The Chinese didn't mind it and have swept it under the rug. The don't feel insulted. Why is there an apology issued?

I would pissed if I was Ronnie too. Those were the longest-assed questions I've ever heard. The guy just lost, make it quick. And the translator? who was that? She could barely translate properly. You'd think they could find an better english-speaking person.