Bully’s Protest
In countries with the freedom to protest, protesters who hit the streets always claim victimhood and demand for justice and/or policy changes. Not everyone knows that. In August 2019 in…
36 Dirty Tricks From Ancient China
understanding China through history and legends by Singaporean writer Chan Joon Yee
In countries with the freedom to protest, protesters who hit the streets always claim victimhood and demand for justice and/or policy changes. Not everyone knows that. In August 2019 in…
This is hilarious. A North Korean report (definitely not correctly subtitled/translated) says that Christmas in China has been cancelled because Santa Claus had a fall in China and nobody dared…
连坐 Wikipedia: Collective punishment is a punishment or sanction imposed on a group for acts allegedly perpetrated by a member of that group, which could be an ethnic or political…
In a short video purportedly shot by a Chinese journalist for Singapore’s Chinese newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, Peng Shuai denied that she was ever sexually assaulted and she alleged that people…
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As I’ve always said, I have just a passing interest in martial arts. It just happened that time and again, this sport/art generates newsworthy incidents that are incredibly edifying in…
The well-known Guangdong Hakka district of 梅县 (pronounced Moiyen in Hakka meaning “Plum County”) had an urban core carved out in the centre in 1949 after the Communists took over.…
The excerpt of a document on a special kind of salt used for preserving vegetables caused a major stir on Chinese social media. It states that in the interest of…
If there is one thing common between Singaporeans and Hong Kongers, that has to be their pragmatism. But there is an important difference. Singaporeans are pragmatic in allowing a single…
Get real. It’s all a show and all about money, money and more money. Winston takes us off the tourist 景点 and shows us some of the realities of life…