A female student Wang Zifei, who sat behind Obama when he delivered his speech at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, has become a Internet celebrity. Local media recently found out that her boyfriend actually paid 100,000 yuan to hire a Beijing Internet promotional strategy company to use the opportunity of Obama's speech to hype up the ‘Obama girl.' (via ESWN)
Xue Ying from CNreview reports on a tech conference in Beijing concerning the development of microblogging in China.
James from Japan Probe blogs about American film maker Michael Moore's visit to Japan.
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i have been staying around 4 yearsin south korea illegaly. In 2003 November i get the visa for 5 years but 1 year later it has been cancelled. At that moment i didn’t go back my home town.
now my Bangladeshi mom could not chech her tears. When i will be there? Who doesn’t want money in this world ? I want to make money by hard labour with honesly in korea. Is it posible ? Pls let me know. Thanks.