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]]> http://asiapundit.com/2007/09/05/re-launch-pending/feed/ China Toymaker Gives Children the Evil Eye http://asiapundit.com/2007/06/19/china-toymaker-gives-children-the-evil-eye/ http://asiapundit.com/2007/06/19/china-toymaker-gives-children-the-evil-eye/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 05:55:10 +0000 myrick http://asiapundit.com/2007/06/19/china-toymaker-gives-children-the-evil-eye/ As a China resident, AsiaPundit takes great care when buying products for his child, generally avoiding foods or toys designed for the local market. While overseas, AP generally trusts that ‘Made in China’ products do meet a higher level of safety standards. Most of the time…

“Just in the last month, a ghoulish fake eyeball toy made in China was recalled after it was found to be filled with kerosene..”

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We are not shocked by lead-paint being used on toy trains. But Kerosene-filled fake eyeballs? Designed for children three-and-up? That’s truly a product worthy of Irwin Mainway.

Consumer Reporter: … Well, we’d like to show you another one of Mr. Mainway’s products. It retails for $1.98, and it’s called Bag O’ Glass. [ holds up bag of glass ] Mr. Mainway, this is simply a bag of jagged, dangerous, glass bits…

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  • NORTH KOREA - A Chinese tourist eats in North Korea
    “North Korea is the same as we were before the 1980s; the standards for receiving foreign and domestic guests are completely different. All of their restaurants are state-run, so if we don’t eat at a quality restaurant then it’s a special banquet room, a
  • INDIA - What Lindsay Lohan and Maninder Singh have in common
    “…a famous former Indian test bowler had been arrested for possessing a small amount of cocaine. His name is Maninder Singh, who reinvented himself into a very popular radio and television cricket commentator.”
  • NORTH KOREA - Bush “screwed up” in acting like a pansy to KJI
    “There is nothing preventing the North Koreans from getting their money. They only need to send a couple of goons with some briefcases. But no, they want to access to the US financial market. If they want that, fine; let them stop their counterfeiting,
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  • Off The Record » “Rubbing-out” services offered via SMS
    “One of the interesting things about China is the variety of bizarre SMS-spam messages one receives almost every day. . . Recently I’ve been receiving messages that offer to help “rearrange” people for me. This “rearrange” implies a rearranging
  • CHINA - Suing the Net Nanny
    “…a Shanghainese man is suing his Internet connection provider China Telecom because his U.S. hosted website was blocked, and China Telecom will not or cannot explain to him why.”
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  • SINGAPORE - Chewing gum laws in Singapore explained (for you foreigners)
    ” I knew a friend who had a really bright future in engineering, but he was seduced by the lure of the easy money and women offered by the chewing gum trade.”
  • CHINA - The Bubble Theorists Have Shanghai Wrong
    ” On the whole, the optimism we see with Shanghai stocks look, dare we say, warranted for an economy growing at 10%+ clip (in GDP terms). Specifically, here are some key reasons for being bullish on China and in Chinese exchange traded funds such as FXI.”
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  • CHINA - When Jerry Yang Talks China, Run for the Doors.

    “Any other executive with a similar track record would have been reassigned, if not fired, long ago.”

  • CHINA - How to write a China article.

    “You’ve just arrived in your 5-Star room at the Shanghai Hilton and unpacked your fancy new Apple laptop. As you pull the top off the mini bottle of Hennessey XO, you finally turn to your instructions from the editor back home. 2000 words by Monday about the important issues facing China today. Easy.”

  • CHINA - A recruitment ad for virtual cops

    “For a conservative estimate, calculating at 2000 counties, then the fees spent across the country on hiring new web cops will reach 2,995,200,000 yuan (that is, 2.9952 billion yuan). How much of this expense is necessary?”

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  • NORTH KOREA - North Korean roller-coaster
    “Check out this point-of-view video of a rickety North Korean rollercoaster at Kaeson Youth Funfair, Pyongyang — a coaster so tame it’s practically a soporific.”
  • CHINA - Did the “Genocide Olympics” influence China?
    “”The genocide Olympics” is such a brilliant piece of propaganda. It is as un-subtle as you can get, and it looks like being effective.”
  • SOUTH KOREA - Google Korea to censor search results
    “The last time Google did something like this (i.e., conformed to government requests that allegedly went against its principles), it ended up on the receiving end of intense criticism - including a dressing down at a Senate hearing in the US.”
  • SOUTH KOREA - Colbert does Korean pop
    “To prove he’s more influential than Rain, Stephen Colbert does his own Korean music video [Comedy Central]. Painful. Very painful. At the same time, it does show Korea’s rising cultural profile—just a couple a years ago, no one would be making joke
  • TAIWAN - Legislature Brawls are Staged
    “Ralph Jennings reported yesterday what many have long suspected: that the brawls in the legislature are staged so that politicians can get maximum publicity.”
  • PHILIPPINES - More than 140 dead in “peaceful Philippine elections”
    “Philippine police (are) claiming the midterm polls were peaceful since there were fewer deaths this year compared to the previous elections. But Kontra Daya, a citizen electoral watchdog, is challenging this verdict.”
  • Asia’s top 20 progressives?
    “World Business names Singapore’s Mr Brown and Malaysia’s Raja Petra Kamarudin, as well as former Malaysian PM Mah thir Mohamad and present Indonesian President SBY as among Asia’s top 20 most progressive.”
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  • HONG KONG - Hong Kong man fined for linking to porn
    “This is coming hard on the heels of the appeals trial for the only man in the entire world to receive a jail sentence for posting Bit Torrent seeds.”
  • SINGAPORE - Singapore opposition leader discharged from bankruptcy
    “Veteran Singapore opposition politician JB Jeyaretnam said he had paid off damages in defamation suits brought by the government, which should discharge him as a bankrupt and allow him to run in future elections.”
  • IRAQ - Who Won Iraq?
    “The answer to “Who won Iraq?” is Iran in the short run, and in the long run, China and India.”
  • THAILAND - Thailand in Bottom 10 on press freedom
    ”
    Thailand has been listed by the Committee to Protect Journalists as one of the world’s worst backsliders in freedom of the media in the past five years - turning relative openness into repression and worsening press conditions.”
  • JAPAN - What every girl needs in Japan
    “Sports equipment manufacturer Cramer Japan has come out with infrared-blocking underwear for female athletes, called “ShotGuard,” which makes it impossible to shoot see-through images of the women. will help women to perform better by eliminating wor
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  • CHINA - MySpace China - “Splittists” to Rupert Murdoch: Thanks for the Addy!
    “The terms of use and privacy agreements seem more or less identical to the English ones, except the Chinese terms of use have added lines about following the State Secrets Law, impugning the “honor and interests” of the PRC and avoiding “cults and feudal
  • CHINA - “You Will Have To Die For Killing The Puppy!”
    “After the news story broke on April 26, many netizens were infuriated. By the hundreds, they showed up at the forums to call for respect for life, to establish laws to protect animals, to condemn the “murderers” …”
  • CHINA - Hollywood to boycott China?
    “One learns, after a few years in the media industry in China, to ignore the chest-thumping threats of media moguls to withhold something from China. This is for good reason: the threats are usually empty.”
  • CHINA - How Things Really Work Around Here: Law and Order in Suzhou
    ““He” in this instance was a local Mafia tough who found a young Chinese lady’s comment offensive in the bar in which they were hanging with their friends. The young lady happened to comment that a particular photo was quite ugly. The Tough took the
  • CHINA - Wait, so you can actually buy software? That’s stupid.
    244: Number of genuine copies of Microsoft Vista sold in China in the first two weeks after its launch.
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  • CHINA - CCTV: One of those Cs must stand for ‘catty’
    “Huang Shengyi has a horse face, and big nose. When she smiles, she is fatally attractive.”
  • CHINA - Liu Qi on civic responsibility
    “Security guards wear service caps and stand in the shade, but they allow strangers to come and go: they exist in name only. Hatred, but never criticism.”
  • SOUTH KOREA - Gross video of still-writhing octopus tentacles for dinner
    AsiaPundit notes that ‘live’ octopus tastes just likel cooked octopus… only fresher! Yum.
  • CHINA - MySpace China launches, Wendi officially on board
    “Rupert Murdoch’s wife Deng Wendi has a seat on the board; this is her first official position at News Corp., although people have been speculating about her influence on the company since she married Murdoch.”
  • JAPAN - Likely hoax story on poodles in sheep’s clothing
    “Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles.”
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