Yao Ming, aka the most famous Asian athlete in the world, might miss the entirety of the next NBA season. However, that’s not the worst case scenario. According to ESPN, the stress fracture in his foot could be career threatening. Never mind the impact this has on his team, the Houston Rockets, and never mind the impact this has on the parity of the always heated Western NBA conference, I’m wondering what this could possibly mean to Asian basketball in general. More »

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Asian drama fans, I have a confession to make. I have Asian Drama ADD. Meaning, the chances of me watching an actual primetime Asian TV show are super slim. I’m a scatter shot viewer — watch a few episodes here, watch a few there. 2005 was the last time I watched a drama in it’s entirety. I blame it on the recycled plotlines and characters and the lack of drug use and sleaze. More »

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Aside from giving me gas, I can agree that dumplings are pretty good. Are they good enough to risk a bitch-fit from your older sister? Probably not. Unless you decide to cleverly steal them for the purpose of capturing your sister’s bitch fit on hidden camera. That is exactly what this person did: More »

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I just got back from a nice vacation in the Bahamas. It’s something I highly recommend everyone should do. Just being able to disconnect from a computer and have no work and no worries. What a great feeling! Anyway, back to Asian stuff. Not much has changed in the past few days. SNSD and Wonder Girls are dominated headlines - SNSD in Asia and Wonder Girls in the US. The person that came up with the sailor outfits for SNSD should get a huge raise! I think people will buy their new album just for the photos alone, forget the music ^^

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I almost missed this. One of the voices in the upcoming Ice Age movie is a 17 year-old girl from New Jersey named, Eunice Cho. She plays the voice of Diatryma Girl. Eunice will be joining a very star-studded cast of Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Ray Romano, and Sean William Scott just to name a few. Must have been a very cool experience for her! Between Up and Ice Age, it would seem voice acting is the way to get started for young Asian actors and actresses. More »

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July 11, 2009 will mark a momentous day in comic book and Asian history. This special event will take place at the Museum of Chinese in America on 215 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan between 10 AM and 5PM. More »

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Generally it takes a lot of planning on post-its to come up with a college senior project. In the case of of Bang-yao Liu and his senior project at Savannah College of Art, a whopping 6,000 post-it notes were used…not to plan but to be featured as part of his pixelized stop motion short film. In addition to the 6,000 post-its used, the project took 3 months of planning and 4 days shooting to complete. More »

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Every so often, Korean music companies like to debut new balladeers as obscure and anonymous. The logic seems to be that the element of surprise equates to a sizable amount of success. Perhaps the novelty is wearing thin, as it is no longer a big deal for a popstar to rise out of obscurity. More »

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Another Sunday, another set of winners. We really do have quite a few contests going on. For the month of July there’s a chance to win a monthly prize, four chances to win a weekly prize, and 31 chances to win a daily prize! Make sure to tell you friends =) More »

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You’re finally an adult (at least in Western rule) so we like to wish a very Happy Birthday to the youngest So Nyeo Shi Dae member, Seo Hyun! More »

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Despite some heavy controversy, The Girls Generation (SNSD) came back strong with Tell Me Your Wish (Genie). The Music Video was just released last night (6-25-09), and the very next evening they debuted BIG at KBS2 for their comeback special. More »

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Apparently Hong Kong actress-singer Gillian Chung had tree trunk legs when growing up. She was often teased by her high school friends for that. Instead of squeezing these bitches to death with her thunder thighs, Gillian was determined to slim down her legs to prove these bitches wrong. By looking at her pictures now, it’s hard to imagine that she used to have tree trunk legs. One must assume that she did a lot of exercise to achieve this result, but that’s a wrong assumption. More »

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From Ziggytek Blog: Last week’s CommunicAsia 2009 Expo held in Singapore, debuted some nifty phones to the Asian market. Some of these phones are now available to the U.S. market but others will take some time before reaching the States. The Top 5 phones and Pictures after the break. More »

Attention Wonder Girls’ fans. Drop what you are doing. Make sure you’re sitting — don’t wanna be responsible for any accidents. Turn up your speakers. Forget the times you’ve ever wondered or not wondered about what the hell people are singing about in Kpop songs. I present to you, everything you’ve been waiting for, what the Jonas Brothers can or cannot handle, arsenal to infiltrate the Disney pop empire, the song you will *lose your virginity to and basically… More »

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Traffic on Ningin has been great! We’ve been growing every month and it’s all thanks to you guys. More traffic also means a bigger budget for prizes and giveaways. So we’re going to be dipping into our stash of albums and do something no website has done before. Starting July 1st and for all 31 days of July, we’ll be giving out a free album to a random registered user. More details after the jump. More »

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In a TV Patrol interview yesterday, Charice Pempengco revealed that she was formerly scheduled to perform alongside the late Michael Jackson in a duet/dance-off to “Billie Jean” for this year’s comeback tour. Like all of us, the King of Pop was first introduced to Charice via Youtube –last year’s Oprah performance in particular, followed by a Youtube video of her rendition of “Billie Jean.” More »

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Vienna Teng played an intimate show at Housing Works Bookstore last Friday, and because it’s crazy Asian and Asian-American film festival time here in NYC, I couldn’t make it. So I sent Tina Chou instead. More »

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The news is dominated today, deservedly so, by the death of Michael Jackson. It’s rare when an individual is known across the entire planet making his death a loss for all of humanity. The shock is still reverberating around the world, resonating with fond memories of all the things Jackson contributed to music. Here is a small collection of those memories put together by the Asian media blogosphere: More »

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This is probably the hardest post I’ll ever have to make. Like many of you, I’m still having a hard time dealing with the tragic loss of Michael Jackson, King of Pop. There is nothing we can talk about in regards to music here that wasn’t impacted by his legacy. On his passing, Asian popstars had to say the following: More »

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Boy toy, player, pretty boy Kim Hyun Joong’s popularity has been skyrocketing since Boys Over Flowers. In between macking on Son Dam Bi, he’s seen posing for the latest Elle issue. Check out the shots. More »

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