“Oral and anal sex in private between consenting heterosexual adults would be legalised under Singapore’s first major penal code amendments in 22 years, the government said on Wednesday.”

“Being a reporter is the third most dangerous occupation in China, the official Xinhua news agency said, second only to miners and policemen.” — Clearly window cleaners and welders were not inculded in the survey.

“We’ve never been to the knockoff DVD shop called Blockbuster … and now we’ll never get a chance to. The real Blockbuster has seen to it that the place — which apparently is of the overpriced, 10 kuai per DVD, Kade Club ilk — lose its name.”

“The standard excuse for China not becoming fully democratic is that ‘it is too big.’ This is obviously a load of shite, as having been in India during a local election I know how a nation of one billion can get well involved in democracy”

“For a Stalinist country, North Korea was unique in its permissive approach to hard currency transactions. Most Communist states followed the Soviet example and strictly forbade all private trading in currency. There were foreign currency shops in the Sov