AsiaCatastrophic Design, Three Gorges Dam waters drop from...
AAD REPORTS 24/08/2020Reservoir levels drop from 167 meters to 165 meters as the dam release rate barely surpassed inflow from upstream
Action state, over topping would be at 173-175 meters.
Heavy rains forecast upstream stream until at least Wednesday.
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AsiaThree Gorges Dam nears the brink
AAD REPORTS 21/08/2020Water inside China's Three Gorges Dam nears maximum levels
Torrential rain has water level at world's biggest dam to record forcing authorities to increase discharge volumes.
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AsiaChina record floods wet feet of Leshan Giant...
AAD REPORTS 19/08/2020Last time this 8th century UNESCO site got its toes wet was in 1940
Toes dampened by floodwater for the first time since the 1940s
The statue normally sits high above the waterline, as seen here in February
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AsiaChina’s Three Gorges Dam Braces for Record Surge in...
AAD REPORTS 19/08/2020China warned that the massive Three Gorges Dam faced its largest-ever flood surge, as President Xi Jinping toured one of the areas hardest hit by a wave of flooding this summer.
Some 74,000 cubic meters (2.6 million cubic feet) of water per second was...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWuhan faces flood of Biblical proportions.
AAD REPORTS 19/08/2020Exclusive: Satellite images show Chinese cities flooded by Yangtze River
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In the wake of some of the worst flooding China has witnessed in decades both above and below the Three Gorges Dam along the Yangtze River, Taiwan News has...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaQuestionable Design gets Tested Yet Again, China on...
AAD REPORTS 18/08/2020Ruh Oh. Pooh Unhappy as China on alert for Yangtze River flooding as storms close in.
Heavy rain is expected across China’s southwest, northwest and northeast in the next three days, raising flood risks and pressure on dams, weather...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaMysterious carvings and evidence of human sacrifice...
AAD REPORTS 09/08/2020Peking Cat gets new meaning
THE STONES DIDN’T give up their secrets easily. For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed that the crumbling rock walls near their homes were part of the Great Wall. It made...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaHong Kong's commercial lenders on edge as building...
AAD REPORTS 30/07/2020Ruh-oh! That Texas hedge funder who forecasted this is looking pretty smart right now.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Commercial lenders in Hong Kong say they are concerned about a 30% drop in building values over the past 12 months and will consider...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWatch "China's Three Gorges Dam 'moved, leaked,...
AAD REPORTS 28/07/2020Chinese authorities admit the Three Gorges Dam—located on the Yangtze River—has "moved, leaked and distorted." On the same day the dam saw its most severe flooding of the year.
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AsiaDing Dong in Hong Kong as sales go Ka Ching
AAD REPORTS 02/07/2020With huge international art fairs a logistical impossibility, the Hong Kong Art Gallery Association explored what remains feasible with a small local art fair, Unscheduled (17 to 27 June). Undeterred by the looming National Security Law, which as of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaBoris Raises the Stakes with Pooh Bear Xi
AAD REPORTS 03/06/2020Boris Johnson Pledges to Admit 3 Million From Hong Kong to U.K.
LONDON — Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised the stakes in a confrontation with China over Hong Kong on Wednesday, promising to allow nearly three million people eligible for a...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaLeaked data suggests China may have 640K coronavirus...
AAD REPORTS 15/05/2020Occasional glimpses such as this leak reveal the tremendous toll coronavirus has taken on China.
Meanwhile their neighbor Russia has had a tremendous surge of cases.
A leaked database from a Chinese military-run university suggests the country may...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaYellow Tide
AAD REPORTS 09/05/2020Wealthy Heathen Chinoise say "So Rong Hong Kong and Harro Ringapore"
Hong Kong has lost out on rich people’s fresh funds to Singapore so far this year, existing deposits stay put.
As Asia’s rich contemplate where to place their nest eggs, most...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaHong Kong Ping Pong Ding Ding great fall
AAD REPORTS 05/04/2020Former employee of Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Office dies after falling from residential building.
A former press officer at the Chief Executive Office plunged from a residential building to his death on Saturday afternoon, the Hong Kong government...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaInfernal Design, Was coronavirus a weapon that got...
AAD REPORTS 30/03/2020Independent Chinese media outlet Caixin Global revealed that Chinese laboratories had in fact identified a mystery virus — later identified as COVID-19 — to be a highly infectious new pathogen by late December 2019. But they were ordered to stop further...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaBoris Johnson's government is reportedly furious with...
AAD REPORTS 29/03/2020Long overdue. Absolute zero evidence a country with abysmal hygiene, zero environmental laws, staggering population and zero trust in government from said restless population could achieve virus shut down.
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AsiaXi Jinping - WANTED
AAD REPORTS 25/03/2020
Tubby Ageing China Man
Questioning in relation to the deaths of over 20,000 people worldwide so far of COVID 19 (corona virus)
If you see this man do not approach him, he may be dangerous.
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AsiaChina Lied And People Died: The Most Dangerous...
AAD REPORTS 24/03/2020The deadly coronavirus pandemic originated in Wuhan, China, and the Chinese Communist Party is 100% to blame for the health and financial crisis the entire globe is going through right now.
After Chinese scientists at labs in Wuhan had sequenced the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWatch "The Virus That Shames China" on...
AAD REPORTS 22/03/2020Patrick Condell is a British writer, polemicist, and former stand-up comedian.
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AsiaWuhan cover up admitted as whistleblower doctor...
AAD REPORTS 20/03/2020This is what China must atone for.
Until Xi addresses this head on, nobody trusts their empire of deceit.
As Douglas MacArthur once remarked, "The Chinese capacity for self delusion is near limitless".
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AsiaFinancial News: China shrieks 'FORCE MAJEURE' to...
AAD REPORTS 09/03/2020Epicenter of todays financial storm.
Before Russia and Saudi Arabia started a price war, the glut on the market was caused by a series of Chinese purchase reneggings, something American country auctioneers are long familiar with because Chinese "bid...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAs the Possibility of Museum Closures Loom in the UK,...
AAD REPORTS 08/03/2020As the threat from the coronavirus escalates in the UK, museums are quietly taking special measures to protect staff, visitors, and collections.
Rather than sending couriers overseas, the Tate has decided to extend its loan of more than 70 works...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaCorruption caused outbreak?
AAD REPORTS 22/02/2020If they can't steal the technology perhaps they are not so competent or adept at handling extreme risk.
Did China just admit their bio-weapons lab leaked the virus?
Some Chinese researchers sell their laboratory animals to street vendors after they...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaMaybe the Coronavirus Will Teach Millennials the...
AAD REPORTS 19/02/2020Trusting in tyranny absent the remarkable trust as well as the give and take inherent to grass roots democracy, fatally slows the reaction to a viral pandemic.
At first China responded too slowly awaiting approval from ignorant control freaks in...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWhat's in a name?: The curious case of Mo(h)(a)(e)njo...
AAD REPORTS 16/02/2020Dis is vat mus ne sed.
Dis citi is the model for Pakistan.
The only thing dat vud male it purfect is a 7-11 with a Slurpee machine.
KARACHI: Since the ancient city’s discovery in 1922 by R.D. Banerji, there has been constant scepticism around...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSwiss Fat Lady Sings, and it's not Eidelweiss
AAD REPORTS 08/02/2020Art Basel Cancels Its Hong Kong Edition, Citing 'Sudden and Widespread Outbreak' of Coronavirus.
After weeks of speculation and uncertainty about whether the deadly coronavirus would force the cancellation of this year’s edition of the Art Basel Hong...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWuhan coronavirus crematoriums 'working 24/7' burning...
AAD REPORTS 05/02/2020These allegations (if true) corroborate the statistics momentarily listed in that Taiwan news article. Right or wrong this cements Art Basel Hong Kong as so dead and now on the back of a truck headed to the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaFinal nail to the coffin of Art Basel Hong Kong
AAD REPORTS 05/02/2020Tencent may have accidentally leaked real data.
Leaked numbers are staggering.
150,000 infected, 24,000 dead?
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AsiaArt Basel prolongs the agony with indecision and...
AAD REPORTS 31/01/2020Greedy Swiss show promoters release Snowflake Letter to Anxious Hong Kong Exhibitors.
Exhibitors are not going because their clients canceled.
Art Basel remains in Denial.
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AsiaFine Art of Arial reconnaissance illustrates the...
AAD REPORTS 30/01/2020Satellite images show Wuhan's empty streets.
Satellite images of China's central city of Wuhan are almost bereft of cars and people, in a dramatic illustration of how successful its quarantine efforts have been in convincing residents of the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaStick a fork in Art Basel Hong Kong as Museums in...
AAD REPORTS 30/01/2020The silly Swiss who own Art Basel are smoking crack if they think Art Basel Hong Kong will happen this year.
This just in museums in China and Hong Kong are closed indefinitely until the coronavirus contagion is contained.
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AsiaIn Coronavirus, a ‘Battle’ That Could Humble China’s...
AAD REPORTS 27/01/2020There are signs that the government, especially at the regional level in Hubei Province, the source of the outbreak, was slow to recognize the danger and is continuing to mishandle the crisis. Some public health experts have asked whether the sweeping...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaCoincidence? Wuhan has two bio warfare labs
AAD REPORTS 26/01/2020As Telly Savalas once remarked in his epic role as NYPD Detective Kojak, "Baby, I don't believe in coincidences!"
Retired pentagon types long noted an earlier coincidence in the appearance of Lyme Disease in CT a mere five miles from the former US Army...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaMickey Mouse in Lockdown as China contagion spreads to...
AAD REPORTS 24/01/2020Mickey Mouse in Lockdown as China contagion spreads to Shanghai.
Disney is closing down its mega theme park in China over the Lunar New Year holiday as fears grow over the deadly Wuhan virus.
Shanghai Disney Resort made the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChina Lock Down shows Rare Panic Move by Xi
AAD REPORTS 24/01/2020So much for people traveling to China for Art-Basel Hong Kong.
China Locks Down 40 Million People as Anger Grows Over Virus.
China is struggling to contain rising public anger over its response to a spreading coronavirus even as it took...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSmuggling Stunt freed the frog from a Nip...
AAD REPORTS 07/01/2020Former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn faced charges no native Japanese CEO had been tried for.
So what did he do? He ran.
First he hired former Green berets to transport him in a box to a private jet.
From there it was all first class to Turkey where he got...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaConnecting the Dots on India's lost civilization
AAD REPORTS 07/01/2020Researchers find new clue to solve Harappan civilization's sudden decline mystery.
The researchers from India in their new study have connected the dots between the Harappan decline and the disappearance of a Himalayan river which once flowed...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaArchaeologists Excavate 200 More Chinese Terracotta...
AAD REPORTS 05/01/2020Even in the afterlife the Chinese use human wave tactics.
In 1974, farmers digging a well in China’s Shaanxi province stumbled upon fragments of a life-size clay figure crafted in the shape of a battle-ready soldier. Subsequent excavations...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAnother Eye Opener for China, Bond Defaults
AAD REPORTS 03/01/2020While hedge fund Kyle Bass predicted the demise of Hong Kongs Art Basel as the canary of the dangerous Chinese coal mine, Bloomberg brought up more bad news for East Asia, Chinese bond defaults are spiking, Winnie the Pooh, aka President Xi has loosened...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAn eye opener of a film in China
AAD REPORTS 30/12/2019Is it real or just a marketing stunt?
Groom 'plays a video of his bride in bed with her brother-in-law in front of shocked wedding guests'.
Footage of a groom playing a video of his bride apparently cheating with her brother-in-law has gone...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChina issues stern response to landslide victory of...
AAD REPORTS 25/11/2019While Winnie the Pooh cries. The state mandarins came out to heckle the voters. Hissing like cats, their claws came out....
HONG KONG — Pro-democracy forces swept Hong Kong district council elections over the weekend, boosting pressure...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaViolence mars Jewelry show opening in Hong Kong
AAD REPORTS 15/10/2019Nothing could have prepared the organizers of the September Hong Kong Jewellery & Gem Fair for both the U.S.-China trade war and the ongoing increasingly violent clashes between protesters and Hong Kong police. There’s no playbook for this level of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaHong Kong Blowback? Backlash After Mao Artwork Is...
AAD REPORTS 03/10/2019Chairman Mao and his mandarin heirs have scant sense of humor:
KAWS Faces Backlash After Chairman Mao Artwork Is Listed at Sotheby's Hong Kong.
American street artist KAWS is facing backlash in China after a painting depicting Chairman Mao...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWatch "???? Kyle Bass Explains The Chinese...
AAD REPORTS 16/09/2019Kyle Bass Explains The Chinese Currency Crisis As An Investment Opportunity
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AsiaHow the Hong Kong crisis could boost Taiwan’s...
AAD REPORTS 25/08/2019KAOHSIUNG (Taiwan News) – Here in Kaohsiung, most people are spending the weekend sheltering indoors from the torrential rain that has deluged the city for most of the past week.
In Hong Kong, just a short hop across the Taiwan Strait, they have been...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaThe Japanese Air Force One Jumbo Jet Is Up for Sale...
AAD REPORTS 17/08/2019Slightly used VIP 747 built for the Prime Minister of one of the largest economies in the world.
If you’ve been scanning the skies for your next private plane, you need look no further: A very special jumbo jet has just popped up on our radar,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaCovert Designs unveiled: Why the China-Russia Alliance...
AAD REPORTS 06/08/2019It all comes down to this:
China is just biding its time till Russia implodes, and Beijing steps in and sweeps up the choice pieces.
So, now everybody wants to be Bismarck. They see themselves shaping history by artfully moving big pieces on...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSign of the times: China's capital orders Arabic,...
AAD REPORTS 01/08/2019Arabic a no no in China. Does this mean arabic numbers are next?
BEIJING (Reuters) - Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs,...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaFour big Chinese films have been pulled in a month...
AAD REPORTS 29/07/2019Censorship strikes even the blockbusters as four major movies get pulled from the market within one month of release.
God help us if Winnie the Pooh gets poked on the stomach too many times.
Silly Pooh bear, he thinks too much.
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AsiaLet Freedom Ring
AAD REPORTS 03/07/2019China Fears A Soviet-Style Collapse in Hong Kong.
Can the protestors avoid the "Make Pie" fate of Tienamen's Tank Man?
Two weeks have passed since the initial massive street protests in Hong Kong. It was gripping, but such events tend to quickly...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaKim Jong-un executes general by throwing him in...
AAD REPORTS 09/06/2019Life imitates art.
Kim Jong Un appears to be a fan of Team America World Police and / or James Bond, both of which have supervillains dispose of traitorous flunkies by pulling a lever thereby causing said flunky to fall into a large tank loaded with...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChinese Fugitive Living Large in Los Angeles
AAD REPORTS 23/05/2019Shi Jianxiang refuses to lay low. Perhaps he watched Jack Nicholson in the Departed too often because this Chinaman told President Xi Jinping, "no tickee no shirtee".
BURBANK, Calif.—One of China’s most-wanted men has been running a...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaIron Age Settlement Uncovered in Thailand
AAD REPORTS 09/04/2019LOP BURI, THAILAND—According to a Bangkok Post report, more than 10,000 artifacts dating back as far as the Iron Age have been uncovered at a newly discovered site called Khok Phutsa, which is located in central Thailand’s Lop Buri River Basin, by a team...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaPreviously unknown species tentatively termed...
AAD REPORTS 22/03/2019(CNN) — A newly discovered fossil site in China that dates back 518 million years contains more than 50% previously unknown species, according to a new study. The well-preserved Qingjiang site is helping scientists to fill gaps in the fossil...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaIndia's forgotten caves
AAD REPORTS 21/03/2019Following the tiger’s tracks, the group came to a clearing between tamarind trees and thickets that revealed the rushing Waghora and the ravine it had whittled out of the earth. Smith spotted a horseshoe-shaped escarpment on the other side with a number...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAn art gallery buried on a Chinese beach - The sands...
AAD REPORTS 11/02/2019Buried beneath a sand dune, in the beach town of Beidaihe, nestles one of China’s newest art galleries. An offshoot of the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing, 300km away, the ucca Dune is unlike any other cutting-edge art museum in China. Most...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSotheby’s Biggest Wine Auction Could Fetch HK$206...
AAD REPORTS 29/01/2019An eye opener of a sale in Hong Kong.
Sotheby’s will auction one of the most important single-owner wine collections in Hong Kong this March, featuring nearly 17,000 of the finest bottles from Burgundy, Champagne, Rhône, Bordeaux, and Italy, the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaTsunami hammers Indonesia
AAD REPORTS 29/09/2018This just happened. Holy shit.
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AsiaQianlong Vase to Headline Sotheby’s Hong Kong Fall...
AAD REPORTS 20/08/2018Rare imperial vase goes to auction in Sothebys Hong Kong, similar examples without the fame of this have sold for $45 million at auction.
A rare vase from the Imperial collection of the Chinese Emperor Qianlong, which has remained in a private...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaWhy China censors banned Winnie the Pooh
AAD REPORTS 06/08/2018The blocking of Winnie the Pooh might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country's censorship.
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AsiaExplore Ancient China, Luoyang, Here’s What You...
AAD REPORTS 08/06/2018So, you’re in Xian and you need a little break from all your Terracotta-ing. Thanks to a bullet train that began late last year, it now only takes less than two hours to get to Luoyang – one of the most celebrated historical areas in all of China.
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AsiaVan Gogh & Japan
AAD REPORTS 20/03/2018The exhibition 'Van Gogh & Japan' will shed light on the influence exerted by Japanese art on Vincent van Gogh. On view from 23 March 2018.
The above from the Van Gogh Museum's You Tube Page - Follow that page here
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AsiaPhotos emerge of arrested ex-CIA agent suspended from...
AAD REPORTS 21/01/2018Photos of a former CIA agent currently in US custody for suspected espionage have emerged showing a rugged “strongly built” man who had worked at auction house Christie’s in Hong Kong for nearly two years.
Hong Kong resident and US citizen Jerry Chun...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChristie’s Suspends Ex-CIA Officer Suspected of...
AAD REPORTS 18/01/2018A former Central Intelligence Agency officer arrested on charges of unlawfully retaining classified information has been suspended by Christie’s as its head of security in Hong Kong.
The auction house said Wednesday it had suspended an unnamed...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaConstruction workers just accidentally discovered 30...
AAD REPORTS 31/12/2017Dinosaur eggs found in the Dragon of the East.
The holidays are all about happy surprises, and paleontologists got one heck of a shock earlier this week after learning about an unexpected discovery in China. Chinese construction workers digging on...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaApple accused of racism after Face ID fails to...
AAD REPORTS 21/12/2017Apple has been accused of racism, amid reports that the Face ID authentication technology on its new iPhone X is failing to distinguish between Chinese users.
A man from Shanghai bought his wife the new gadget soon after it was released last month, but...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaInternational Loan Exhibition of Korean Painting to...
AAD REPORTS 15/12/2017
Exhibition Overview
The Diamond Mountains—perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean peninsula—is the theme of this international loan exhibition. Though the region has inspired cultural pride since ancient times, its...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAsian collectors to define future art market:...
AAD REPORTS 30/10/2017Collectors in the region will write the future narrative for the international art market, according to Ben Clark of Christie's Asia.
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AsiaBeyond Angkor Wat, forgotten Cambodia
AAD REPORTS 27/10/2017If you've heard of one Cambodian temple, it's probably Angkor Wat -- an awe-inspiring yet well-trodden UNESCO World Heritage Site in Siem Reap.
But many travelers don't realize the Seventh Wonder of the World is one of thousands of ancient Khmer temples...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaMonet Collection Shipped off To Les Chinois
AAD REPORTS 15/10/2017To see the full catalogue entitled Dear Monsieur Monet property from the family of Claude Monet, click on the image below:
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AsiaEconomist Xie Says China's Property Market a Ponzi...
AAD REPORTS 26/09/2017Watch the interview on ATT.net:
http://start.att.net/player/category/finance/article/bloomberg_global_bus-economist_xie_says_chinas_property_market_a_ponzi-5min
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AsiaChinese Antiques Collection, Princeton University Art...
Robert Alexander Boyle 19/04/2017Chinese, Tang Dynasty 618-907, Tomb figure (detail)
One of the few steady bright spots in the art and antiques field these days is the Chinese market, and the best way for a dealer to learn good-better-best is to go to art museums. Princeton is one of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaPax Americana Returns?
AAD REPORTS 07/02/2017Op-Ed: President Trump's major Asian breakthrough
Rival power designs about throwing Uncle Sam out of Asia just got more difficult – or well-nigh impossible. And that crowd sloshing in the snow of ridiculously expensive Alpine resorts will have...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAncient Chinese Secret
AAD REPORTS 07/11/2016The ancient walls of a lost city in southern China have been uncovered in a remarkable find by archaeologists. The northern section of the city was found at the Sansingdui archaeological site located in Sichuan province. It dates back than...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaDecorated Scientist Claims That The Founders of...
AAD REPORTS 09/10/2016On a cool Sunday evening in March, a geochemist named Sun Weidong gave a public lecture to an audience of laymen, students, and professors at the University of Science and Technology in Hefei, the capital city of the landlocked province of Anhui in...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChina and Tibet
AAD REPORTS 24/09/2016
Perspective Map of Lhasa; Lhasa, Tibet; early 20th century (pre-1912); ink, watercolor, and gold leaf on rice paper; Collection of Knud Larsen; L179.4.1
Architectural landmarks act as anchors for the identity of a place as well as focal points for...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaLegends Say China Began in a Great Flood
AAD REPORTS 04/08/2016
Legends say China began in a great flood. Scientists just found evidence that the flood was real.
"Yu the Great Fights a Flood Dragon" (Totoya Hokkei/William Sturgis Bigelow Collection)
It's said the flood looked like "endless boiling...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaSecrets of lost Cambodian cities to be revealed:...
AAD REPORTS 12/06/2016Secrets of Lost Cambodian Cities To Be Revealed
Archaeologists are set to unveil further details of medieval cities hidden under jungle in Cambodia near Angkor Wat, the world's largest Hindu temple complex, the Guardian newspaper said...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaChinese archaeologists may have stumbled onto the...
AAD REPORTS 10/06/2016Chinese Archaeologists May Have Stumbled Onto The Fabled 'Greatest Palace That Ever Was'
For centuries the imperial palace of Kublai Khan's Yuan dynasty was shrouded in mystery. After the dynasty collapsed, there were no clues as to where it was...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaBehold the Haunting Decay of Gunkanjima, Japan's...
AAD REPORTS 04/06/2016Battleship Island. It's a fantastic name for an unbelievable place. A place unlike any in the world. A tiny island, once home to 5,259 people with the highest population density in history, abruptly abandoned and left to the elements for decades.
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AsiaThe Indus Valley civilisation is 2,500 years older...
AAD REPORTS 03/06/2016The Indus Valley civilisation may be even older than initially thought.
A group of researchers in India have used carbon dating techniques on animal remains and pottery fragments to conclude that the Indus Valley settlements could be 8,000 years...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaAsia Week NYC, Full of Surprises
AAD REPORTS 24/03/2016ASIA WEEK NYC, FULL OF SURPRISES
Fresh on the heels of Art Asia Week (which is really 10 days) in NY, the questions started coming…how did the slowdown in China and other Asian countries affect the market for Asian Objects in New York?...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaPeabody Essex Exhibition: Asia in Amsterdam: The...
Robert Alexander Boyle 04/03/2016
1. Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde. The ”Golden Bend” in the Herengracht, Amsterdam, 1671-1672. Oil on panel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Purchased upon the recommendation of the Vereniging Rembrandt with the support of the Stichting Nationaal...[Read More]0 Comments
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Asia‘Time Waterfall’ to be unveiled at ICC Hong Kong...
AAD REPORTS 04/02/2016Internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima will present a new large-scale public light installation during Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong in March. Each night from March 21 to 26 ‘Time Waterfall’ will be shown across the...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaFrisky At Asia Now
Maura Haverly 21/10/2015Billing itself as “the first human sized fair in France and Europe for contemporary Asian Art“, Asia Now opened at the Espace Pierre Cardin on 19 October. Twenty-one galleries from 10 countries on two floors , the timing couldn’t be...[Read More]0 Comments
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AsiaThe MET’s Chinese Fashion Exhibit
The Epoch Times 25/05/2015
Christine Lin @ The Epoch Times
The MET’s Chinese Fashion Exhibit Neglects 94 Percent of Chinese Fashion
The Metropolitan Museum’s new gargantuan fashion exhibit, China: Through the Looking Glass, has its fair share of...[Read More]0 Comments
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AntiquesIvory : Facts vs. Emotion
04/05/2014There are a number of false claims about ivory that are currently circulating in the news. The biggest false claim is that New York is the second largest ivory market in the world. I don’t know where or how this fact was established, but anyone...[Read More]0 Comments
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