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Yesterday, Asian4you reported on ABC’s newest reality game show offering, which will send ten Americans to the Eastern lands of Japan to compete in absurdly crazy games to win a total of $250,000. These ten Americans will be grouped by pairs and will have to endure hilarious and at times pointless challenges to bag the price and eventually claim “How to Survived form a Japanese Game Show!”

Meet 23-year-old Mary Greenawalt. She’s a gym membership sales representative from Matthews, North Carolina. Her red hair flares with her personality, and she is admittedly vain. She has a devil-may-care attitude which makes her love herself a little bit more than she would other people. Mary the wild child enjoys charming people despite being totally silly. She also often gets paid for being a party motivator, and has a BFA in Acting to her name.
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Tags: Game, Japanese, Show, Survive

A4U:AUTUMN which is my favourite season, bringing with it crisp, sunny days and cooler nights. I look forward to its bountiful harvest and start planning my favourite dishes to cook. Nothing signals the arrival of autumn and the accompanying welcome rain as much as mushroom girls. While cultivated mushrooms are available year round, wild mushroom season is now.

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Tags: a4u, AUTUMN, food, health, Mushroom, pictures

At 2007, organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival–there are more than 30 films all over Asia vied for 12 prizes in the Asian Film Awards. It appears there was no entry from the Philippines, which in the ’50s was second only to Japan in the quality of films. Then HK, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand learned filmmaking from us. Now those countries have left us behind in cinema technology and artistry. In economic growth, too.

GOLDEN YEARS – Then the Philippines ruled the Asian Film Festival with such entries as “Ifugao”, “Anak Dalita”, “Badjao”, “Higit sa Lahat”, “Biyaya ng Lupa”, The likes of Rogelio de la Rosa, Efren Reyes, Romeo Vasquez, Leroy Salvador,
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Tags: cinema, Festival, Film, Ifugao, Japan, Philippine

The first Asian Film Festival of Asian President’s Council will present as a special month of film screenings from every of Asia, along with cultural events.

“The Asian Film Festival is a program designed for increase awareness and understanding of the various Asian cultures at Texas A&M University,” said Ahsan Farooqi, president of APC.
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Tags: culture, Festival, Film, Jackie Chan

When I picked up a jar of turtle fungus paste at a medicine shop on the way home last night. “It will lower the evil fire.”, The label said. It is probably say something dull about reducing one’s fever, but I preferred the wording as it stood. We all have evil fires, which occasionally need lowering.

But labels like that are disappearing. Tragically, English in Asian for you is being standardised and brought in line with Western English. The growth of outplacement services is causing this to happen all over Asia, and the Olympics are amplifying the effect in China.
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Tags: English, Malaysia, Nanjing, puzzles

CEO at Tyche Group says Asian markets is not going to decouple and have plunged and are in red today from the US in the foreseeable future. He adds, within the Asian pack for you India and China are interesting markets but there is still room for them to go down.

Q: It seems like there is no end to this volatility when it comes to the Asian pack?

A: No unfortunately not. We are not going to de-couple from them in the foreseeable future, so we have got to look at what they are doing. The employment figures were poor and unfortunately the unemployment figures are really historic as well becauset we are looking at what the directors and employers were doing six months ago. I think the economy is pretty worse than the figures would suggest.
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Tags: China, decouple, India, market

Woman said: Well, how much will it feel to hit another milestone? I do just say your 60’s birthday celebration was low key. You went to work, you came home. You didn’t want a party or a birthday cake. In Asia they start counting over in years at 60, so you are 1 year old again. Now that I think about it, there are a lot of similarities between 1-year-olds and 60-year-olds.

Man said: Yeah, at 60 I have about as much control over my knee joints as I did when I was trying to learn to walk. Same goes for my bladder. Now, I can only drive about as far as a 1-year-old can make it in one sitting before I have to stretch and visit the facilities. Truthfully, I forgot it was my birthday. I don’t know if it was because I wanted to forget I have lived this long or if it was just part of the growing list of things I can’t remember.
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Tags: Man, medical, Woman, work

The Kuwaiti diplomacy aims to cement ties with other Asian countries in all fields, notably the political, economic and investment ones, Director of Asia Affairs Division of the Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Ambassador Mohammad Saud Al-Bader said here yesterday.

He made the statement in an interview with KUNA on the sidelines of the ongoing second ministerial meeting of Asia-Middle East Dialogue (AMED II).
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Tags: Egyptian, investor, Kuwait, tour

Malubay is a girl who have never heard Dolly Parton’s “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” until she decided to perform it during Asian for you dream’s seventh-season performance episode on Tuesday night — and while it contributed to her elimination, she was able to find some positives about it.

“I actually didn’t know the song. And I didn’t know any other songs besides ‘I Will Always Love You’, the song that everybody knows,” she told reporters during a Thursday conference call.

“But I taped ['Do I Ever Cross Your Mind'] and I listened. It was either that or a ballad. And I listened to the song and I wanted to challenge myself to see how I could take a song and kind of make it my own even though it wasn’t in the same genre, like the kind of music that I tended to do. I’m proud of myself that I actually moved on stage performance-wise. I felt that I grew that night.”
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Tags: a4u, Asian for you, dream, girls

The U.S. CIOs try to cut their 2008 IT budgets while European and Asian companies plan for IT spending growth, according to survey results from Gartner. Gartner surveyed more than 1,000 CIOs in February and March.

And while the research group forecast 3.3% growth in global IT budgets, Gartner now is revising U.S. budget increases for 2008 down from 3.1% to 2.3%. According to Gartner, one in four CIOs experienced a budget reduction in the first quarter, 65% experienced no change and 10% reported increases.
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Tags: CIOs, Plan, us