This may not really be a posting for Asian Sirens, but I just felt like sharing this awfull news with you. Twenty-one members of North Korean cheering squads who traveled to South Korea for international sports events are being held in a prison camp for talking about what they saw in the South, a news report said Friday. Read the full story at CNN.com.

On her personal blog Tiara writes:

“This experience of having a blog has been an interesting one. It is a learning experience that I would like to share with others like me. Others who are currently and in the future would like to make a living with their pretty faces. Yes, for you other models.. join me and start to write on my new blog. I have created this new blog for other models so they can start experiencing what I have experienced the last few months. If you are a model who would like to be known for more than just your pretty faces, this new blog is for you.”

Good initiative Tiara!Tiara now has four blogs:

Tiara Lestari’s Personal Journal
Tiara Lestari’s For Women Only
Tiara Lestari and Friends
Tiara Lestari Zone (in Indonesian)

I announced last week that we opened a shop at CafePress.com. Well, now you can buy some products! Be sure to check out the slogans our visitors came up with 😉

Soon you can wear your own Asian Sirens T-shirt! We just opened a shop at Webby Award Winner CafePress.com. Nothing in there yet, but keep an eye out for those fantastic products! 😉

And we would like you to think with us about some nice slogans to place on the T-shirts. Use the Comments section, we’ll be reading them all. (This one is allready taken 😉

Memoirs of a Geisha has been nominated for six Oscars, including Art Direction, Cinematography, Costume Design, Music (score), Sound Editing, and Sound Mixing.
Source: Kineda.com

With the current ‘Cartoon situation’ rapidly becoming a worldwide hot news issue, as well as the planned launch of the Indonesian Playboy, I was wondering how the regular visitors of Asian-Sirens feel about the whole censorship issue? What is more important: freedom of speech or protecting (and respecting) religious values?

The reason why I am posting this is that I just read on Asiansweethearts blog that she does not place nude pictures (or link to them) because of the strict laws in Thailand. Now I already knew about the current situation of strict anti-pornographic laws in Thailand, but I did not realize that people really were obliging to it.

I know Asian-Sirens is not a political blog, but I have been also wondering about the ‘Great Firewall of China’ and if we are still available in China (and Thailand) and if so, how long we will be…. Now that even Google is helping to enforce it…On a personal note: I think AsianSexGazette is really doing a great job covering the whole sex and religion situation.

And if you like the Manga cartoon above and want to see it without the censored stamp, then download it at Dooffy.com