Advice of the day. She’s right, you’ll only get into a long conversation and work down until you accept - same with people trying to sell you things you don’t want or need…

A Hong Kong man charged with insulting the Chinese national anthem at a volleyball match sang the pro-democracy song Do You Hear the People Sing while the anthem was being played, a court has heard. hongkongfp.com/2024/04/11/hon…

#BREAKING A representative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has been deported from Hong Kong on arrival to the territory to monitor the landmark trial of publisher Jimmy Lai, the international press freedom concern group said in a statement.

rsf.org/s/94297

Video shows a man in a police uniform in the UK questioning a S. Korean YouTuber about his visa status & travel route while he was filming himself eating a burger.

The video sparked angry comments on YouTube, sparking debate about racial profiling.

What happened in the mountainous areas of Taiwan during the earthquake on April 3rd, 2024

Bordering China -

High Radiation Levels Prompt State Of Emergency In Russia's Khabarovsk rferl.org/a/russia-khaba…

A while ago a Singaporean taxi driver asked me what a UK hawker centre lunch might cost. I explained that there aren't any. He asked what office workers ate, and I explained the concept of Meal Deals. And he looked at me with such a powerful combination of pity and revulsion.

Chinese soldiers onboard DC3, flying over Himalaya, to U.S. Ramgarh Training Center in India, 1943.
They wearing straw sandals, later went to Burma to fight against the Japanese army, and most of them died on the battlefield.

#Scoop is a terrific movie - well done Sam McAlister! Finally an authentic movie about journalism by someone who actually knows what it's like... and l loved the contrast between work/life - one minute you're talking to royalty, the next you're on a bus home via the kebab shop…

Great investigative journalism here. Bravo

Taiwan earthquake: How the island's two-decade preparation saved it ⁦Rupert Wingfield-Hayes⁩ bbc.com/news/world-asi…

This is one of the dumbest yet stickiest tropes about foreign media in the Chinese propagandasphere. I’m sure many of the clowns that promote it know better.

FT now has more people than NYT+WSJ+WaPo(0) combined in the Chinese mainland, I think?

There's no such thing as a 'BBC grey filter'. The Blinken footage below was not filmed by the BBC, but by an agency camera travelling with him. Ironically it was also used by CGTN and CCTV👇
youtube.com/watch?v=Xei1Ol…

'We thank the international community for its expressions of sympathy and concern,' - China's Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N., Geng Shuang
reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Nothing beats the local canteen for lunch. Unbeatable variety, and cheap as chips… #china

Gorgeous day in #Shanghai

Extraordinary cirque du soleil style high wire repair act on corner of Julu and Shaanxi furthers my stagnant safety standards point (I’m also just really impressed)

For generations, China has relied on sons and daughters to look after ageing parents, but now there are fewer of them - and many have moved away. The older generation are dipping into pensions - but that money could run out. ⁦⁦Laura Bicker⁩ bbc.com/news/world-asi…

Remarkable line in BBC interview with David Cameron