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Mar 20, 2012 • Comments Closed We first heard about Wukan late last year. “China’s rebel village,” the headlines screamed. Newspapers showed pictures of angry protestors rising up against what they perceived was an unjust system. In demonstration after demonstration, they accused local officials of corruption and illegal land grabs, of enriching themselves at the expense of the very people they’d...
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Mar 5, 2012 • Comments Closed Last month, we received an email from a young Australian called Thomas Hayes. Here’s a bit of what he said: “I returned from south east asia in october 2011 after a while backpacking around this part of the world. While i spent time in Cambodia, i was lucky enough to make friends with a guy...
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Feb 28, 2012 • Comments Closed It's the Spud's last day at Lianain Films. James calls it The End Of An Era. Sounds a little melodramatic, but he's right. It's hard to imagine work without the Spud.
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Feb 17, 2012 • Comments Closed We’ve been keeping vampire hours these past weeks. Breakfast at 4 in the afternoon, lunch at 7. The day ends at 7 the following morning, sometimes 8. We say our goodnights. Sleep. And then the madness starts again.
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Feb 7, 2012 • Comments Closed Lianain Films is hiring! We're looking for a multi-tasking, kickass production assistant. Read what Kirsten Han has to say about working at Lianain Films.
No black person has ever competed in cycling’s most prestigious race, the Tour de France. Zakayo Nderi, a former shoe-shiner from the slums of Kenya, wants to change history.
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Jan 15, 2012 • Comments Closed Dear Vui Kong, Happy birthday, in advance. You’ll be 24 on the 19th of January. It’s a huge milestone. Outside here, your supporters are celebrating the fact that you’ve lived another year. Last time we met, I asked what you were planning to do on your birthday. You said you’d spend it thinking about your...
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Dec 31, 2011 • Comments Closed This is one of my favourite pictures this year. Taken in some park in Amsterdam, on my iPhone. No action, no drama, no backstory. I think I like it because it captures a moment that was just so not the 2011 we know. I remember the day well. James made a huge breakfast. And then...
Workers at a South Korean-run shipyard in the Philippines are fighting back against a deadly safety record.
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Dec 15, 2011 • Comments Closed Our new documentary, “Storm in Subic Bay” airs today on Al Jazeera English’s 101 East. We will post the link to the film as soon as it is available. Rudolfo Alvarez and his children. Photo by Kirsten Han. We meet Rodolfo Alvarez on a gloomy, overcast afternoon. His home isn’t much to look at –...
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Oct 26, 2011 • Comments Closed The photo shows a girl with long, curly hair and big expressive eyes. Her name, we’re told, is Christa. And she is an inmate at a maximum security prison in Tennessee. What led her there was an unspeakably gruesome crime. She had lured a girl she suspected of sleeping with her boyfriend into an isolated...
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Oct 17, 2011 • Comments Closed Asia is renowned for producing some of the best and brightest students in the world. Such academic achievement is often underpinned by parental pressure, strict discipline and relentless hard study. In Hong Kong, the demand for extra tuition has turned cram or tutorial school teachers into rich celebrities. Yet some students have been driven to contemplate...
