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Noodlepie asks if there is a single Saigonese who loves Hanoi food and manages to stir up an interesting debate.

Posted by Preetam Rai

Diligence finds many people attending a job fair in East Timor's capital Dili.

At E.L.H. Electric Lover Hinagiku, blogger y_arim reacts to a news article [ja] in Yomiuri shimbun reporting that popularity of the elderly in Japan is on the rise among young people [ja], writing that he's rarely seen news so gross. “At the heart of the grossness is the fact that this is spoken about just like any other trend,” he writes. “In other words, for young people ‘the elderly' are the same as tiramisu, tamagochi, and Yumi Adachi — [people] make a big deal about them and they have a boom for a little while, but they essentially end up being something completely trivial.”