The new King Kapisi album, Dominant Species, took a while to put together, Bill Urale admits, but he's been a busy man since the 2003 release of 2nd Round Testament.
The hip-hop maestro has been from Norway to Japan and the United States performing at anything from festivals to self-organised gigs and cultural initiatives.
King Kapisi, a household name in New Zealand, Australia and...
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INSTEAD of getting an extension of his tourist visa, a Japanese national found himself being arrested by immigration agents on Wednesday for allegedly beating up his common-law wife and sexually abusing their househelp.
Adachi Genichiro was arrested at the Bureau of Immigration office in Intramuros, Manila, on Wednesday in an entrapment operation set up with the help of his common-law wi...
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But compared with the makers of "Sekai no Chushin de Ai o Sakebu (Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World)" and other trendy lamentations for thwarted love, Inudo's sensibility is more identifiably indie, his foreign models more European than the currently fashionable Korean. In other words, more "Amelie" than "Winter Sonata."
What really sets Inudo apart, however, is his direction o...
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Some three decades later, Mario Van Peebles -- himself a director and actor in his own right -- has made a film in which he plays his dad, Melvin, in a docudrama on the incredibly turbulent making of "Sweet Sweetback."
One of the scenes he has to play is when he orders his son Mario, a tender type, to do the sex scene and -- even worse -- to cut his beloved afro.
Oedipal enough for ...
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So it's not so much of a surprise that Muay Thai (Thai kick boxing) champ Parinya Charoenphol, blessed with chiseled features and a delicate gracefulness, should feel the need to appear in tournaments fully made-up and wearing colorful, embroidered shorts. It also stands to reason that Parinya became a national idol, and following a sex-change operation "she" has achieved enormous success as a...
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Tokyo fashion designer blends tradition and innovation
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At first glance, balding, pudgy, bespectacled accountant Masaaki Matsubayashi hardly seemed a ladies man, but the 17 mistresses he accumulated over the past decade and a half told a different story, according to Shukan Jitsuwa (10/27).
It seems ...
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There is no doubt that Japanese people are losing their good manners. Alarmed, the government and private organizations are doing their part to encourage the public to "manner up!" by displaying posters and signs. These signs, probably designed by elementary school teachers with a grudge, seem to be everywhere: "Please line up and wait your turn." "Don't cut in line." "Don't push to get on th...
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WHILE stories about anticipated cost blow-outs from our ageing population have been in the news, I have been in Thailand attending a conference on preventative health and wellbeing.
It?s amazing that we in the West still view disease as a phenomenon unrelated to the whole person, unlike traditional Asian healing systems, which take into account so many other factors in a person?s longevit...
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OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — The Air Force lieutenant convicted of abusing his position as head of a police team patrolling bars outside Osan Air Base will not be allowed to resign, officials said Thursday.
The secretary of the Air Force has denied 1st Lt. Jason D. Davis' request to be allowed to resign, said 51st Fighter Wing officials at Osan Air Base.
Davis remains confined at t...
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The 33-year-old marine set off from his home city of Calcutta after receiving exceptional leave for the trip from the Indian government.
Armed with just a few clothes, a small tent, and some food, Avijit is already nearly a third of the way through his trip.
Avijit is stopping along the way at schools to give talks about the importance of recycling and protecting the environment.
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Published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
The Ocean Policy Summit 2005 took place in Lisbon, Portugal from 11-13 October 2005. The event brought together 218 participants from 53 countries, with governments, regional organizations, UN agencies, academia, non-governmental organizations and industry represented. It was organized by the International Ocean G...
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OMAHA, Nebraska, OCT. 15, 2005 (Zenit.org ).- A recent journal article questions the social benefits of religion in the United States. Author Gregory Paul argues that the regions with higher rates of religious practice -- the South and Midwest -- have "markedly worse homicide, mortality, STD, youth pregnancy, marital and related problems than the northeast where societal conditions, secularizat...
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It is doubtful that Vice President Annette Lu (§f¨q½¬) has read much ancient Greek literature, which is a pity, because had she ever flipped through a copy of Aristophanes' magnificent satire Lysistrata, she might have thought twice about railing against men as the root of all bloodshed. Ra...