
China’s thought police have begun censoring all mentions of rubber duckies after an unpatriotic wag uploaded a Photoshop combining it and the famed Tiananmen Square incident of 1989 to sinified Twitter knock-off Sina Weibo.
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Amazingly, Senran Kagura has not only managed to top a chart somewhere but also managed it outside Japan – scoring the distinction of being the most downloaded PSV game of February 2013 in Hong Kong, not a territory traditionally associated with hyper bust-’em-ups.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Jun 2, 2012 05:16 JST
- Tags: China, Fujoshi, Hong Kong, Marketing, Otaku, Shota, Taiwan, Translation, Yaoi

Fujoshi watchers (to say nothing of fujoshi students of Japanese) have been marvelling at the advent of a “Japanese for fujoshi” textbook for the Chinese market.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jan 20, 2012 08:38 JST
- Tags: Copyright, Crime, Hong Kong, Internet, Law, New Zealand, Police, Sites, USA

The US government has shut down top file hosting service Megaupload and had its founder arrested on suspicion of causing $500 million in lost revenue to content sellers.
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An 8-year-old girl has won the Japan’s junior Gundam World Cup and will be representing her country at the world finals, creating quite a stir with her diorama of a mobile suit blasting and smashing various tanks.
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Top Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific has been embroiled in a high altitude sex scandal after one of its pilots inadvertently leaked photographs of his stewardess girlfriend fellating him in the cockpit and posing salaciously about the plane.
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A Hong Kong event seeking to promote Kinect with the aid of some comely maidens has turned into a nightmare for Microsoft, with the revolutionary controller seemingly unable to reliably recognise even scantily clad Asian belles…
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A 4-year-old boy who secretly began onanising to his father’s porn collection is set to have his penis amputated after it succumbed to catastrophic necrosis.
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Martial arts superstar Jackie Chan has outraged lovers of freedom the world over, but especially in Taiwan and Hong Kong, with his galling statement that Taiwan and Hong Kong are “too free” and would benefit from some communist oppression, courtesy of Beijing.
In remarks to the press he asserted that “Taiwan and Hong Kong are too free, they are chaotic. Chinese have to be controlled.”
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A non-culinary menu of the most sordid sort comes to light, illustrating the costs of various special encounters.
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A rather interesting image comes our way, allegedly detailing the appearance and fashion sense displayed by otaku hailing from Hong Kong.
“Don’t be taking girls with you to buy toys now!”
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Tentacular assault oppai manga To Love-Ru looks to be posing a problem to puritanical foreign markets, as its much vaunted ecchiness results in the Hong Kong edition being relegated to 18+ ero-manga status, and the Singapore version sold as the censored serialised version used as a mere preview in Japan.
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