Ten Years: Controversial Hong Kong film wins top Asia award
- 4 April 2016
- China
A controversial film depicting a bleak future for Hong Kong under Beijing's control has won one of Asia's top film awards.
The low-budget, independent movie Ten Years has packed screenings in Hong Kong, but is banned in mainland China.
Set in 2025, it depicts political gangs and persecution of local people for speaking Cantonese not Mandarin.
It comes amid increasing nervousness in Hong Kong about perceived Communist Party interference in its affairs.
Ten Years, which is made up of five vignettes, won the best film prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards held on Sunday.
First boats returning migrants and refugees from Greece arrive in Turkey
Two boats carrying 131 people are at port of Dikili after leaving Greek island of Lesbos early on Monday
Two boats carrying the first migrants to be deported from Greece to Turkey under an EU deal with Ankara have arrived in the Turkish port of Dikili, a few hundred metres from the quayside.
Under the deal, Ankara will take back all migrants and refugees who enter Greeceillegally, including Syrians, in return for the EU taking in thousands of Syrian refugees directly from Turkey and rewarding it with more money, early visa-free travel and progress in its EU membership negotiations.
Officials from the EU border agency Frontex said the boats were carrying 131 deportees, mostly Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Moroccans who were already being deported to Turkey prior to the deal’s creation, meaning that Monday’s deportation is not a true test of whether the agreement can stop the flow of mainly Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis to Greece.
Natural Capital: What Is the True Cost of Food?
By Anna BehrendA kilogram of new potatoes this week costs just €1.29 in some German supermarkets. But is that the whole story? Not by a long shot. Environmental costs are almost always completely ignored. Some, though, are trying to change that.
One-and-a-half kilograms of new potatoes for just €1.29 ($1.47), lettuce on special this week for just €1.49: The bargains from the weekend grocery shopping pile up on the kitchen table. Strawberries, at €3.99 per kilo, are still pretty expensive, but the season hasn't really started yet. So how are these prices arrived at, and do they reflect the products' true value?
water or fertile farmland. Harmful chemicals, gases or polluting particles emitted during production are likewise not factored into the price, neither for producers nor consumers.
"Natural capital quite often is free. And quite often it's undervalued because it's free," says Richard Mattison, CEO of Trucost. His company has taken on the task of putting a price tag on nature. Using mathematical models, Mattison and his co-workers are attempting to identify the value lost when companies destroy or pollute the environment. "We make sure that the value of these natural systems is recognized," Mattison says. Trucost's calculations are intended to help companies optimize their production processes, assist investors in gauging environmental risks and allow scientists to better research the economy's dependence on natural resources.
Were Ugandan police really groping women in public?
At first glance, it did look like male Ugandan police officers were getting a bit frisky as they carried out searches on female fans attending the football match between Uganda and Burkina Faso held at Mandela Stadium in Kampala on March 29. Social media users widely condemned these photos... but it turns out that the scene was not nearly as scandalous as one might think.
The photos of women having their breasts and inner thighs searched by a solidly built Ugandan police officer with short-cropped hair certainly made the rounds on social media all across Africa. Many assumed that the Ugandan police were allowing men to search women: “Don't they have police women to do the search for ladies?” one asked.
Many others shared the photos accompanied by dirty jokes, many alluding to the fact that the women being searched were enjoying the process.
Pakistan attack: How the Christian minority lives
Updated 0921 GMT (1621 HKT) April 4, 2016
Gunmen carrying AK-47 assault rifles stand guard on a tiny, dusty street, but they're not protecting a military installation or a prison. They're armed volunteers guarding a church.
This is the area of Youhanabad on the outskirts of the city of Lahore. It's the most densely-populated Christian neighborhood in the whole of Pakistan.
Last year, two bombers struck local Catholic and Protestant churches killing more than a dozen people, injuring many more. Protests by the Christian community only led to more violence rather than security.
Death has come to Youhanabad once again.Congo police exchange fire with 'militia': reports
Police reported to be engaged in heavy firefight with gunmen in Republic of Congo's capital, weeks after election.
| War & Conflict, Politics, Congo, Africa
Heavy and sporadic gunfire has been heard in the capital of the Republic of Congo as police fought with what one official described as militia fighters.
The apparent fighting comes just weeks after President Denis Sassou N'Guesso's re-election.
The gunfire tapered off at times as it was heard to ring out in the southern Bacongo and Makelekele neighbourhoods of Brazzaville.
The gunfire tapered off at times as it was heard to ring out in the southern Bacongo and Makelekele neighbourhoods of Brazzaville.
A government official told the Associated Press news agency early on Monday that authorities were monitoring the situation.
Reuters news agency reported that young opposition supporters, chanting "Sassou, leave!", also erected barricades near the main roundabout in Makelekele and set fire to the local mayor's office and police headquarters.
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