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Question: What do Sarah Palin and Edison Chen have in common?

In the latest Google Zeitgeist rankings which aggregates billions of search queries and ranks top search queries around the world, Edison Chen and Sarah Palin took top honours in China and the world respectively. The Beijing 2008 Olympics would have been the fastest rising search term hands down but was edged out by Edison Chen in the China category, and Sarah Palin in the Global category.

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By Kenneth Tan in on December 11, 2008 11:00 AM

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Photo: Wen Jiabao is a lefty?

China's Premier today urged the country's men's basketball team to "win honor for the motherland." But mostly we just wanted an excuse to run this photo of 65-year-old Wen's proper form — and, yes, we are talking about his decision to don dark socks with black dress shoes.

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By Dan Washburn in on August 3, 2008 10:07 PM

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Is Chinese search engine Baidu endorsing Barack Obama?

Or is Barack just fishing for the Asian American vote? (Get it? He's throwing a net? Nets are sometimes used in fishing? Ah, f*ck it. It's late.) Anyway, when we first saw this, just minutes ago (thanks, Sage) we went, "Huh?" Odd, no? Check Baidu out for yourself.

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By Dan Washburn in on April 8, 2008 12:09 AM

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Quote of the Day: Yang Jiechi (杨洁篪)

people have chosen it as their mother tongue?"

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By Kenneth Tan in on March 13, 2008 12:53 PM

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