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Imagethief was not in the least surprised to hear that Chinese netizens were outraged that movie actress Gong Li has taken Singapore citizenship. But then, Imagethief is not in the least surprised by anything that outrages Chinese netizens. Chinese netizens were outraged when Gong Li played a Japanese woman in ''Memoirs of Geisha'', alongside ...

In a fairly wide ranging interview conducted with a Bloomberg reporter and published the on Journalism.sg, Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, has offered his advice for the Chinese government on dealing with foreign media. Much of it is pretty solid:You take Tibet. Who started it? It was started by the Tibetans. The March incident, March ...

There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. But before we get too far into ...

The wires report that he has been freed, in time for Chinese New Year.

Imagethief and Mrs. Imagethief took themselves round to the splendid, new Wanda cinema in Beijing this weekend to catch the latest installment of Disney's ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series. Imagethief was, in particular, looking forward to the ''Singapore'' segment of the film, which introduces Chow Yun Fat's Chinese pirate character, Sao Feng. ...

Imagethief was tickled to read today in Xinhua an article from the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual Chinese talking shop, on how Asian media will rise up to challenge western media juggernauts. It seems that Asians take umbrage that they are 96.2% of the world's population and yet produce only 0.3% of its international media. Or something like ...

OK, anybody who didn't see this coming, go bang your head against the wall until your brain falls out: BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares slumped sharply on profit-taking on Tuesday, with the major Shanghai index down 8.84 percent, the biggest daily drop in 10 years. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, covers both A- and ...

Time was short today, so you've been spared the mooncake rant, the cultural relativism rant and a few other choice in-development rants. But I did notice a few articles that I though I'd pass along to readers so you can keep outta trouble.Just because you're illegal doesn't mean you shouldn't look goodFunny post from Sam Flemming, who tracks an ...

Imagethief was not entirely surprised to read the following this morning in the Straits Times online:Singaporeans the least happy people in Asia        LONDON - OF ALL the countries in the Asean region, Vietnam has the most to smile about and Singapore the least, according to a list of the happiest countries on the ...

There, now. Doesn't that feel better? Imagethief is a strapping manly-man, and spends long hours in the gym perfecting his Adonis-like physique. Occasionally, however, his enthusiasm gets the better of him, and he tries to hoist a few kilos too many. This happened to me about a month ago as I was doing plate-rows. At the apex of my ...