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Viewers say scenes featuring Lady Gaga, boyband BTS and Justin Bieber are missing from Chinese versionFor many Chinese millennials, the US sitcom Friends was a window to the American way of life. Teachers would use the show to help students learn Engli…
Read MoreFast & Furious actor and wrestler apologises profusely on social media for offending Chinese fansFast & Furious star and wrestler John Cena began learning Mandarin Chinese nearly a decade ago. But this month, by showing off his linguistic skill…
Read MoreThe multi-genre artist’s bold sound and confrontation of Indian social problems are winning him a growing audience – and a surprise new collaborator in US rapper Lil BIn 2000, pregnant 19-year-old Harpreet Kaur was found dead in mysterious circumstance…
Read MorePankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy attack Penguin Random House India for putting out book by a prime minister they say has mishandled Covid and persecuted writersLeading Indian authors Pankaj Mishra and Arundhati Roy have spoken out against Penguin Random…
Read MoreWhy use the door, Salman? Bollywood megastar goes back to basics, pummelling everything in sight including narrative cohesionWhat was originally scheduled as India’s big Eid blockbuster for May 2020 is opening a year later in cinemas everywhere but Ind…
Read MoreNew Zealand band the Chills is releasing a new album, Scatterbrain. To celebrate, we count down 10 of their top songsA singular band, the Chills are difficult to stylistically define because their diverse sound traverses lush psychedelia, whimsy and gl…
Read MoreThis heartfelt documentary focuses on free-ranging dogs and the people on the fringes of Indian society who care for themThe street dogs that feature in this lyrically-shot documentary aren’t strays, exactly; they are the indigenous, free-ranging “pye …
Read MoreVladislav Ivanov says he regretted his decision to join Produce Camp 2021 but fans refused to vote him outThe reality TV ordeal of a Russian who joined a Chinese boy band show by accident – and made it to the final despite urging fans to vote him off –…
Read MoreThousands of Nepalese gathered to celebrate the Bisket Jatra festival in the town of Thimi, despite a government request for gatherings not to exceed 25 people. As part of the celebrations, coloured powder is spread to welcome the arrival of spring. Bi…
Read MoreThe Kendal family of actors star in a story inspired by their travels around India, whose booming film industry upstages their theatrical troupeThe stage on screen: more films about theatreThe actor Geoffrey Bragg was born in 1909 in the Lake District …
Read MoreThe Hindu festival of Holi is under way in India. The celebration heralds the arrival of spring Continue reading…
Read MoreMundane life meets magical daydreams in a West Bengal village where discarded film footage is turned into toysAn artful hybrid of documentary and fiction, That Cloud Never Left zooms in on quotidian life in Daspara, a small West Bengal village where to…
Read MoreGovernment appears to backtrack on decree after women take to social media to sing in defiance under #IAmMySong hashtagAfghanistan’s Ministry of Education appears to be backtracking on a decision to impose a nationwide singing ban on schoolgirls.In a l…
Read MoreBajrang Dal hardliners in Madhya Pradesh threaten violence over plays ‘disrespectful to the Indian flag’Rightwing Hindu vigilante groups in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh have forced the cancellation of an annual theatre festival, after threatening…
Read MorePrevented from travelling abroad by the Covid pandemic, locals are instead visiting the magnificent glaciers of the Tian Shan mountain range near Kazakhstan’s biggest city, Almaty Continue reading…
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