Basically anything on these two lists (with exceptions) is a no go outside Asia. This includes most of the prime John Woo, Ringo Lam, and Tsui Hark, as well as the Cinema City catalogue.
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4/4
The ROC is the name forced on Taiwan by a dead dictator from its authoritarian past. Taiwan is stuck with it now because any attempt to change it would risk triggering the PRC into military action and no one wants to die over 3 stupid letters.
The SCMP is just reminding us here that it’s soft propaganda now for Beijing.
De Europese Bank voor Wederopbouw en Ontwikkeling investeerde in 2010 een miljard euro in de Russische tak van Danone. De winsten van deze tak belandden bij Russische en Kazachse miljardairs. https://t.co/Tz07D5LB5D
Language is a form of resistance—and therefore can threaten authoritarians, who manipulate language to distort reality and erase inconvenient truths. Little wonder that Hong Kong authorities are now targeting Cantonese. On the shut down of @gongjyuhok:
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Fun fact: in France, Netflix already reports their viewership to writers monthly and pays writers based on that viewership, because it’s the law there. They literally already have this system in place.
I've been to that bookstore numerous times. As far as I know they only sell religious books, and the staff are super-nice. We don't know the details yet of course, but it looks like the social justice mission of Christians could be increasingly at odds with GovHK's NSL obsession.
some kind of a Baroque satire with photos of bridge towers and paintings not designed to be frescos...? And the double-headed eagle mostly associated with the emblem to the Holy Roman Empire?