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Reposted with permission from World Wide Pop.
The Postgal Workshop (猫室) has become the champion of homegrown animation in Hong Kong. Its recent comic book and animated shorts series, Din Dong (癲噹), went from being a local indie favorite to being aired on Japanese TV. Din Dong is…
Continue readingAnimated documentary about elderly in Hong Kong
Campaign by Ogilvy Singapore to raise awareness for the endangered blue fin tunas, which we do actually put on our plates (as opposed to pandas).
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Sunday, April 17, 2011 in Taicang (太仓).
Some time around 1686. (Via China Rhyming.)
Tricia Wang just posted her presentation from SXSW called “睡在网吧 [Sleeping at the Internet Bar] The Next 300 Million Chinese Users.” It has some great insights on the fringe community of migrants around China and how they are adamantly connected. Tricia observes that these migrants spent lots of time in internet bars/cafes because they’re cheap and because they can connect…
Continue readingChina’s digital underdogs
Tencent, the company known for its ubiquitous and domineering IM (or QQ) client in China, has partnered up with the American Groupon to launch its China branch. The resulting site is called GaoPeng 高朋 and takes on the Groupon look and feel:
As we reported back in 2006 (under our old moniker Virtual China), the internet…
Continue readingTencent buys into Groupon’s secret sauce