Asia Blog: China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam

Wouldn’t it be nice to purchase character pillows? Someone’s made them, at least:

Flickr has some nice pictures of Sakura before they blossom:

Kitty Wang, pictured below, has won first place in the 2005 Miss Asia beauty pageant / tournament. There’s a good home photo gallery at HK Beauties. Our winner is from China (Shenzhen) and 20 years old. She is quite tall, 5′7″, and attends University as a student. She loves to since and dance. [via]

I generally don’t approve of beauty contests, because I don’t think they accomplish much and expose too much, but the winners certainly have a right to be proud!