Here are three blogs that are updated 4-6 times daily by a guy that lived in Asia for about 20 years (according to his bio).
The blog entries can be read in less than a minute and are for students high beginner to advanced and invariably lead to a discussion using the vocabulary introduced in the blog.
Great resource for class starters/fillers or even a whole class.
The links are:
PanAsianBiz - about business/culture/current events in the Asian region
RisingSunOfNihon - about the same in Japan
TheBizOfKnowledge - about the business of education, college rankings and so on.