Independent voices from the TWT Communities
During every season of designer previews at New York Fashion Week a few key, quirky items seem to pop up on different runways. They're not quite trends since one has to think they're partly for runway effect not retail orders, but they're part of the style zeitgeist nonetheless.
Authorities have seized Apple iPads from retailers in a city in northern China due to a dispute with a domestic company that says it owns the iPad name, an official said Monday. The Chinese company said it is asking for similar action in more than 20 other cities.
The front door of the cramped home clubhouse at 81-year-old Municipal Stadium opens directly into the main parking lot, where fans are free to wait for their heroes after Hagerstown Suns games. On Monday night, they congregated minutes after the final out and waited for one man.
Taiwanese pop sensation Jay Chou, Chinese-American singer-songwriter Leehom Wang and Hong Kong's Karen Mok led nominations for Taiwan's Golden Melody Awards announced Friday.
Some 10,000 residents in a southern China town have been told not to drink tap water after tests showed it was contaminated by a heavy metal, a local official said Wednesday.
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese officials said yesterday that the country´s one-child policy exempts families with a child killed, severely injured or disabled in the country´s devastating earthquake.
"All the Apple iPads in the big shopping malls and supermarkets have been taken off shelves in Xinhua district," said Wang.
"It's not healthy to put so much hope on one player and China is capable of producing more talent in the coming years," said Wang, who works at an insurance company in Beijing. "As a fan, I'm sad to hear he is leaving, but this is probably for the best."
