The Audrey Underwear Company in Taizhong City, Taiwan, named November 21 “Camisole Day” in order celebrate record sales. Much to the delight of their male employees, all 500 female employees were encouraged to wear lingerie to work to celebrate.
In Japan, the latest fad is all about presentation, the art of making character lunches. It is called “Kyaraben” (キャラクター弁当), or “Charaben”, and goes beyond simply making the meal look appetizing.
Workers spent over 400 hours putting this 33 x 20 meter mosaic together, which included 105,196 pictures of sleeping babies collected from all over China through the internet.
MediaCorp, a Singapore television station, was fined $11,000 for airing an episode of “Find and Design” at 7:30 am on Sunday, January 13, which showed the host acknowledging a homosexual couple and a baby as a family.
North Korea has always been somewhat a place of mystery, due to strict rules against media and journalist entering, or reporting, about anything within their country. Even when foreigners are allowed to enter the country, they must be escorted by secret police and government officials at all times.
There is something about the way Asian language characters are drawn and look, that is really appealing. Many people get tattoos, art, and even pet fish adorned with Kanji and Hanzi characters.