Thailand is in the midst of an epidemic. Due to its affordability, “yaba” has supplanted heroin as the golden triangle’s main product and now Thailand is dealing with a generation hooked on this new and dangerous form of meth.
Caged homes (HK Housing Crisis)
Cage Homes in HK
Look and read about cage homes here!
Hong Kong is one of the wealthiest cities in Asia, yet you’ll find hundreds of thousands of people living in what the government calls “inadequate housing” — which for some means tiny wire cages.
Lines from Hell…Largest Migration in the World
2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 16,000 times in 2015. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
“Red Alert” Pollution in Beijing Creates New Business Opporunities
Just weeks ago, a Chinese artist took 100 days and vacuumed air around some of Beijing’s busiest areas and created a brick with all of the particles he had accumulated. Today, retailers are looking to cash in on fresher ideas, as bottled mountain air may become the new health trend. The “red alert” status Beijing has earned has it’s locals willing to pay CA$16.00 and up for a canister containing roughly 150 1-second sprays of cool Banff air.
Fashion Faux Pas or Trendsetting Fashion?
LED Skirts
Today fashion and technology move hand in hand, be it fashion accessories or footwear. We have seen sexy dancers rocking the stage with LED fitted skirts and other outfits. But these skirts are now not only limited to stage. Girls absolutely love to wear them casually!
The new fashion trend created in Japan has gifted girls with sexy DIY skirts that enhance their look in totally a new way. These LED embedded skirts light up girls’ thighs. Japanese consider the thigh region of a girl as ‘’absolute territory’’ which is known as sexually attractive.
Hikaru skirt evolves from Japan and is designed by Kiyoyuki Amano. Using a 3D printer, Bluetooth and a control board, the designer prepared a ‘’smart’’ skirt. This kind of skirt is expected to be produced and exported in large numbers this year.
Reggae in Japan
Infographic compares life expectancy in Chinese provinces to countries around the world
It is worth noting that life expectancy in Shanghai is equivalent to that of Switzerland, which ranks top 10 in the world. According to the World Fact Book, Hong Kong ranks seventh in the world with an average life expectancy of nearly 83, and Macau ranks fourth with an average life expectancy of 84.5. With an average life expectancy of about 80, Beijing has nearly the same average as that of the United Kingdom.
Perhaps most note-worthy is the fact that six provinces in China have a higher average life expectancy than the average in the United States which is about 79.7. In 1990, the U.S. had a life expectancy eight years higher than that of China. In the two decades since, China has managed to close that gap by more than five years.
The Cave Dwellers of China
A little less than the population of Canada, 30 million Chinese people still live in caves, and are quite comfortable.
Living in Asia 