“You breathe it too much and you begin to lose your balance. It is a bit like a table tennis drug,” said Peter Gardos, an Austrian coach, reacting to a new regulation being implemented by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Professional table tennis players oftentimes use a special glue before every match to attach […]

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Gerry Shih is currently in Beijing, China, documenting his experience at the Olympics for AsianWeek.
BEIJING - Just before noon on August 18, disaster struck here in Beijing. Liu Xiang, China’s hero and defending 110m hurdles gold medalist from Athens, stumbled out of the blocks in a preliminary race and walked out of the National Stadium […]

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Looks like even the critics were wowed by the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony. It may have taken a year to fake the fireworks footprints in a computer lab, but the most spectacular thing Americans can remember about our Super Bowl is a wardrobe malfunction.
The no-two-identical-parts birds nest stadium, one of a number of stunning buildings […]

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Gerry Shih is currently in Beijing, China, documenting his experience at the Olympics for AsianWeek.
BEIJING — Against the gray swaths of low-rise hutongs in old, central Beijing, the drum and bell towers appear striking. The structures in their current locations have existed since the reign of the mighty Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty (1402-1424), […]

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This year’s Democratic convention, which opens next week in Denver, will provide more access and more visibility than ever for Asian Pacific American Democrats. However, APAs have had a seat at the table at the Democratic Party’s quadrennial presidential convention ever since the large-scale alliance between progressive Hawaiian labor unions and returning Japanese American war […]

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2008 Olympic Medal Count

Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total

COUNTRY

United States
26
26
27
79

China
43
14
19
76

South Korea
8
10
6
24

Japan
8
6
8
22

Kazakhstan
1
3
4
8

North Korea
2
1
3
6

Indonesia
1
1
3
5

Uzbekistan
0
1
3
4

Mongolia
1
1
0
2

Kyrgyzstan
0
1
1
2

Chinese Taipei
0
0
2
2

India
1
0
0
1

Thailand
1
0
0
1

Vietnam
0
1
0
1

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Produced by the Foster City-based Gilead Sciences, the once-daily tablet Viread has been granted marketing approval for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the biopharmaceutical company announced Aug. 11.
The tablet works by blocking HBV DNA polymerase, the enzyme that is necessary for the virus to replicate in […]

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Due to cultural and perhaps, to some extent, ideological differences cheerleading as a profession hasn’t been as well-received in Asia (China more specifically) as it is in the US. But maybe times are changing. Recently, the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) has enlisted 400 cheerleaders for the games. They have been […]

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