“Communist Leader Chairman Mao banned classical music in China. But in today’s China, classical music is massively growi g in popularity - at a time when its success is in decline in the West. British conductors find to their amazement a more knowledgeab

“A rabbit breeder who sold 12 of his animals to North Korea so the communist country could start its own breeding program fear they have been eaten by officials.”

“Few Singaporeans have courted controversy like sex star Annabel Chong, but a new play about her life which opens on Thu sday aims to reveal the person behind the pornography. “251″ is named after Chong’s most famous film, “The World’s Biggest Gang Bang”"

“To be clear, civil libel is common, and, in many cases, appropriate, even though it has sometimes been misused in Asia to bankrupt political opponents. Criminal libel uses the organs of the state to punish defamation, and in Asia criminal defamation is u

“Obama is right now a historic figure: For he would now appear to have what my UCLA students term the “Korean Netizen factor” in his camp. This is the relatively new-found power of the Internet to network countless “little” people into money-raising chain

“On Friday, the International Herald Leader reported the results of an online survey in which 61% of respondents felt that Chow (Yun Fat)’s character does not insult China, while 22% felt that it does. There are reports that SARFT shares the minority view

“A Japanese naval officer is in big trouble after he allegedly swapped porn with a mate of his and accidentally also giving away classified information”

“This is what happens when otaku start pimping their ride.”

“Doctor-blogger Dr Alan Teh …wrote an April Fool joke to humour his readers the way Google did. The topic was enticing: Malaysian men clamouring for pioneering penis surgery”

“What happens when you get a bunch of bloggers who can’t get cabs just before midnight? They whip out their cameras and write about it.”

“Dr Mustafa K Anuar and Anil Netto, coordinators of the Malaysian human rights group Charter 2000-Aliran, say their organization “is deeply concerned by the [Malaysian] government’s potential move to impose mandatory registration of bloggers who use web

“Give a fishing community $20 million, they’ll eat forever; give it to a consultant, he’ll do something fishy.”