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Beijing castrates "Happy Boy voices"

Saturday, 7 April 2007 11:49 P GMT+09
First there was "Super Girl voices", now there is "Happy Boy voices", but will it be castrated before it is allowed to mature?
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Always look a gift treaty in the mouth

Friday, 30 March 2007 3:38 A GMT+09
When China makes a peace offering, it's sometime best to check it for booby traps.
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Banned on the Mainland: Gay Cowboys are a filth foreign idea with no place in a modern Chinese society

Sunday, 29 January 2006 10:10 P GMT+09
Chinese audiences who were looking forward to watching the controversial 'gay cowboy' film, "Brokeback Mountain" are about to be disappointed. It's just been BANNED ON THE MAINLAND.
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Journalist Case File: Li Changqing (李长青)

Saturday, 28 January 2006 11:00 P GMT+09
Despite claims to be reforming, Beijing's jailing of journalist Li Changqing has, once again, proven exactly how far China has to come before it reaches internationally accepted standard for press freedom.

You don't have to be mad to protest in China, but it helps.

Sunday, 22 January 2006 12:11 A GMT+09
To paraphrase the old wester adage, "you don't have to be crazy to protest in China, but it help". And if you don't happen to be crazy, there is apparently nothing to stop the state from saying that you are, and locking you up.
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The Banning of a Geisha: Is the only good Japanese a bad Japanese?

Thursday, 19 January 2006 5:40 P GMT+09
One the most important maxims in life is that 'you shouldn't criticize something until you have gotten to know it'. Unfortunately, this is exactly what many Chinese may never get to do with Rob Marshall's contentious new film 'memoirs of a Geisha'.

Aiding the enemy: Congress's New Dilema

Sunday, 15 January 2006 6:03 P GMT+09
Given the number of stories in the news about the complicity of American firms in Chinese censorship, it comes as little surprise that Washington has now become a lot more interested in the distinctly 'unAmerican' activities of some American firms
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The Conscience of Japan

Tuesday, 10 January 2006 5:17 P GMT+09
In modern day China, it is very rare for anybody to shed a tear for the passing of a Japanese WWII veteran, especially in the city of Nanjing, but the case of the late 東史郎 (Azuma Shiro), is a rare case indeed.
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Fearing the masses – China's hidden crackdown

Monday, 2 January 2006 4:45 P GMT+09
With the 2008 Olympics fast approaching, Beijing has been keen to promote itself as being a tolerant government ruling over a free and open country. Unfortunately, it keeps doing little things that contradict this - Like cracking down on gay culture.
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大晦日 (Omisoka)

Saturday, 31 December 2005 12:00 A GMT+09
大晦日 (Omisoka), or Japanase New Years Eve,
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Security Through Hatred

Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:09 P GMT+09
When you get down to it, trying to win allies by spreading hatred is a rather nasty concept. Unfortunately, it is also an effective tactic that is increasingly being used to inflame two of Asia’s most volatile relationships.
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Silence is golden

Monday, 14 November 2005 7:15 P GMT+09
Given the current state of the Sino-Japanese relationship, news that a Chinese surveillance vessel was spotted in Japanese waters last week, didn’t surprise many China watchers. What did surprise them though, was Tokyo’s reaction, or lack there o
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Replacing Yasukuni : Tokyo Takes the First Step on a Long Road

Friday, 11 November 2005 10:53 P GMT+09
Japanese lawmakers took a key step towards mending Sino-Japanese relations this week, when they convened a groundbreaking cross party committee to provide a solution to one of the largest pot-hole on the road to peaceful Sino-Japanese relations.
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Of Grottoes and Good Will

Saturday, 29 October 2005 10:12 P GMT+09
Just as it is true that strength of will can overcome any adversity, it is also true that good will can overcome any animosity. As was the case in 敦煌 (Dunhuang) this month.
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The Forgotten Refugees

Thursday, 13 October 2005 6:41 P GMT+09
When you put the words 'China' and 'Asylum' together, it is a safe bet that the minds of most will turn to images of Tibetans and political dissidents fleeing from persecution. However, there are some who choose to flee to China, rather than from it.

60 years of 'Sino-Japanese friendship' exhibition opens in Tokyo, but not in Beijing.

Monday, 1 August 2005 7:11 P GMT+09
What do you get if you combine Jackie Chan, a world-class table tennis player, and a hall full of photographs? The answer, a rare attempts at Sino-Japanese bridge building.
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Mao's lookalike dies, and gets a propaganda nip and tuck

Monday, 11 July 2005 6:47 P GMT+09
China's film industry is in official morning this month with the announcement of the death of actor Gu Yue, China's best know chairman Mao lookalike. According to state media, Gu died on Saturday 2, July. The cause of death was recorded as being an 
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Engagement, or a Betrayal of Principles?: Is Britain Lending legitimacy to Beijing?

Monday, 4 July 2005 8:08 P GMT+09
Though Britain Government has, in recent years, become well know for maintaining questionable alliances, its choice of bedfellows has is again hit the headlines with the announcement that the Blair administration has extend a cordial invitation to Pr
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Journalist Case File: Yu Huafeng

Monday, 30 May 2005 12:42 P GMT+09
Name: Yu HuafengAgency: 南方都市报 (Southern Metropolitan News)Date Imprisoned: January 2004Charge: Corruption, EmbezzlementSentence: 12 Years (reduced to 8 on appeal)Yu, a former deputy editor for 南方都市报 (Southern Metropolitan News), w
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Bringing the Battle Home; If you can't cut off the head, cut off the hands instead

Sunday, 29 May 2005 1:01 P GMT+09
The flow of cheap pirate and counterfeit goods from Chinese factories onto Western markets has long been a problem for US and European manufactures and intellectual property right holder, as has been taking action against the often illusive Chinese p
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Chinese Reporter Mutilated as anti-journalist violence in China rises

Wednesday, 25 May 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
While being an journalist in China has never been easy option for those seeking a peaceful life, it has always been a relatively safe profession for journalists who avoid ‘certain grey areas’, and who stick to reporting in line with government ex
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Big mountain in big scandal: CCTV’s ‘poster boy’ implicated in Canadian cash affair

Friday, 20 May 2005 2:28 P GMT+09
Though he has long been a household name in China, Mark Rowswell, AKA 大山, has finally hit the headlines in the outside world, though for all the wrong reasons; finding himself embroiled in a controversial ‘corruption’ scandal in his native Ca
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Forgotten Friendships honored in Aichi

Thursday, 19 May 2005 11:59 P GMT+09
In a gesture of friendship and the shared history between China and Japan, a recently discovered epitaph to Sei Shinsei, Japanese scholar who studied and died in China, has been put on display as part of the 2005 World Exposition being hosted in 愛
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Chinese captain detained in Japanese waters

Saturday, 14 May 2005 9:50 A GMT+09
Japanese authorities have announced, this week, that they are have seized a Chinese fishing boat, and detained its captain, after it was found illegally operating in waters administered by Tokyo.The vessel, a 30 ton trawler hailing from Chinese Taiwa
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Massacre site to become protest no-go zone during May holidays

Friday, 29 April 2005 2:37 P GMT+09
As part of a move to quell anti-Japanese demonstrations, it has been announced that officials in Jiangsu province are acting to act to prevent marchers from using the pending May holiday and surrounding events as a platform for protests in the histor
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