A radio commentator in the Philippines was shot dead on 14 October. Datu Roy Bagtikan Gallego was shot dead on the national highway in Sitio Mamprasanon, in Lianga town during an ambush. Gallego, who often criticised mining operations and spoke in...
Independent film festivals around the world are usually bustling affairs. This was not so in the case of the Sixth Beijing Independent Film Festival. The week-long event, scheduled to start last weekend, dampened down all its advertising for fear...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been named the most powerful person in the art world in ArtReview magazine's Power 100 poll, which rates the contemporary art world's most influential figures. In an interview with BBC World Service's Global News, Ai...
This Thursday Hong Kong will host the world premiere of Dr. Sun Yat-sen after China abruptly cancelled the opera’s original world premiere at Beijing’s National Center for the Performing Arts. The opera, commissioned by Opera Hong Kong and the Hong...
We've been alerted to a debate that has arisen regarding our post on Monday 26 September, in which we noted that the New York Times had reported that a journalist investigating a sex slavery scandal in China's Henan province had been "detained" and...
It was revealed last week that a Chinese man who imprisoned six women as sex slaves in a self-dug cellar was arrested in Luoyang city, Henan province. 34-year-old Li Hao, a civil servant who has since been sacked and stripped of his party...
It’s been in the pipeline for weeks. Ever since China’s version of Twitter, Weibo, was used by account holders to pressure a polluting factory to close down in Dalian and to expose dodgy goings on after a fatal train crash this summer in Wenzhou,...
The suspension of one of China’s top editors, Zhao Lingmin, who edited the high-profile magazine, Window on the South, has gripped the Chinese press. Locals are concerned that case indicates media freedoms will be further curbed. Zhao spoke...
China's version of Pop Idol, Super Girl, was on Friday suspended for one year by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). Li Hao, deputy editor and spokesman of the show's broadcaster, Hunan Satellite TV, was quoted as saying...
Last week, a Google spokesperson announced that Google.cn’s Chinese Internet Content Provider (ICP) licence had been renewed to 2012. When Google stopped censoring search result in 2010 and left mainland China to set up in Hong Kong, Google’s ICP...