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Intimate Strangers: True Stories from Queer Asia, edited by Carmen Ho and Gregg Schroeder, Signal 8 Press, 4/5 stars Intimate Strangers manages to be two rare things. It is a collection of unflinchingly honest, revelatory and intimate accounts of being LGBT in Asia, where such voices are often brutally silenced or, at best, subdued and ignored. It is also a showcase of creative English non-fiction from Asia. The editors say they deliberately preserved each contributor’s vernacular English to celebrate “the variety and richness of English as it is used throughout the Asia-Pacific region”.

El corredor del Euskaltel-Euskadi Mikel Iturria tiene "fracturas vertebrales a nivel cervical y de la tibia y peroné derechos" como consecuencia de la caída que sufrió el pasado domingo en los últimos metros del Giro de la Romaña, en Italia. El parte médico publicado por el equipo vasco informa además de que el corredor guipuzcoano "será trasladado entre hoy jueves y mañana viernes" en una ambulancia medicalizada desde el hospital italiano Morgagni-Pierantoni de Forlì hasta la Clínica Universidad de Navarra de Pamplona para seguir con la recuperación de las lesiones que se produjo tras impactar contra una moto de televisión.

There’s a sudden movement, a shiver through the smooth water of the fjord. A black fin cuts through the water. Another fin joins in, half a minute later, and more until countless fins are next to our ship. In the soft, blue-pinkish Arctic light, a pack of orcas is on the hunt for wild and nutritious herring, their favourite food in the world. We watch them from the ship, hypnotised, until Swedish captain Johannes Malmlund has an idea: “Let’s get our dry suits on and join them!

“We need to learn from them, and personally I have been trying to learn from coach Du,” Yang said. Liaoning player Zhao Jiwei said it is not over. “It was an intensive match but this is not the end. The games to come will be tougher so we need to keep it going.” Jordan brand’s Guo Ailun sits out CBA game amid Xinjiang cotton row The champions, who had a league best 46-6 record and topped the regular season standings, established a dominant 12-point lead by half-time, thanks to outscoring the Flying Leopards 24-13 in the second quarter.

Shanghai Laiyifen, the publicly traded snack food retailer with the most number of shops in China, aims to increase sales of overseas sourced products by 30 per cent in the next few years, as it taps increasing demand from a growing middle class. Laiyifen, which mean “get one share” in Chinese, makes and sells cheap and popular traditional Chinese snacks from melon seeds and peanuts to ducks’ stomach and dried beef.

Source: Logo-share.blogspot.com Incheon United FC is a professional football club based in Incheon, South Korea. Established in 2003, the club has made a significant impact on the Korean football scene. Incheon United FC has a rich history and a loyal fan base that supports the team through thick and thin. This article will provide you with 20 fascinating facts about Incheon United FC, from its inception to its achievements on the field.

La temporada pasada los Celtics eran humillados por los Heat, que asaltaban el TD Garden y se metían en las Finales de la NBA. Dicen que la venganza es un plato que se sirve frío, y los de Boston lo han hecho casi un año después pasando por encima de Miami, a los que borró del mapa en el quinto partido (118-84) para alcanzar las semifinales de la Conferencia Este tras cerrar la serie de manera concluyente (4-1).

Touted as this generation's Andy Warhol, visual artist Kaws came to Hong Kong last week to kick off his Kaws: Passing Throughexhibition at Harbour City. Born Brian Donnelly in New Jersey, USA, Kaws started his art career after graduating from New York's School of Arts as a background illustrator for an animation company owned by Disney. But his rise to fame really began with his graffiti work in the 90s. Gradually, his reworked billboards, bus shelters and phone booth adverts became highly sought after by art collectors.

David Hayes was pleased to sail past 600 Hong Kong winners at Sha Tin on Sunday but it was the dominant Class Two success of Ka Ying Rising that gave the trainer the biggest kick. Hayes was quick to put December’s Group One Hong Kong Sprint (1,200m) on the table for his three-year-old son of Shamexpress, who improved his record to four wins from six starts with the most dismissive of successes.