An isolated 'Shangri-la' in China now faces worldly influx
INDEPENDENT THINKING
The town of Dali in Yunnan Province has been a mecca for foreign backpackers and independent-thinking Chinese with money. But there's trouble in paradise with a deluge of tourists and rising rents.
Ten Years review – a smoke grenade lobbed down Hong Kong's corridors of power
This five-part political treatise, which has mysteriously disappeared from Hong Kong cinemas after initial success, is a dystopian portrait of malaise and paranoia“They even banned Doraemon. Idiots.” So says one outraged schoolboy at the close of Ten Years, the five-part speculative-fiction port manteaucurrently firing up Hong Kong’s citizens with its dystopian vision of the former colony circa 2025: leeched of democracy and being slowly reeled in by the Chinese government.
Sometimes fiction comes a little too close for authoritarian rulers comfort and they lash out
Pregnant Australian sentenced to 10 months jail in Singapore for sedition
March 23, 2016 - 11:29PMAh Singapore: A beloved democratic dictatorship ensuring that only the right kinds of ideas and speech are allowed for its citizens
North Korea threatens to attack Cheong Wa Dae
What or who hasn't North Korea threatened?Okayama tram passengers treated to more feline delight
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