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Today is special because they played lots of retro songs on YES933 in celebration of 25 years of their top chinese pop charts, 龙虎榜. Remember 苏慧轮's 鸭子？ Or 吴奇隆's 祝你一路顺风？ Or even 陈淑华's 梦醒时分? It will be 25 hours non-stop playing these hits of yesteryear. It's mind boggling to think that I was actually there listening to 龙虎榜's first broadcast some 25 ( Read more... )

Saw this news on Fujian's TV and thought it was very coincidental that Easter Day is about the same time? Or are the two related ( Read more... )

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Resting in peace since the start of 2008: Ex-Pakistani PM Benazir Bhutto (27 Dec), Thai royal princess Galyani (2 Jan), local comedian MC King (4 Jan), New Zealander adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary (11 Jan), Australian actor Heath Ledger (22 Jan), Indonesian ex-president Suharto (27 Jan), Singapore Zoological Garden's Icon Ah Meng (8 Feb) and ( Read more... )

Three deaths to remember...


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Finally watched the finals of the Taiwanese singing competition. I must say that the show impressed me more than Project Superstar or other similar TV contests that Mediacorp had. When I was in Taiwan in June, it appeared that the whole Taiwan is captivated by the contestants. In particular, one of the contestants made famous this song by Gary ( Read more... )