Last week we covered the British offer of fast-track to citizenship for almost 40% of the residents of Hong Kong, which you can read about here. Call us skeptical, but in our mind we felt that the offer might to have been completely on the up and up and perhaps had more to do with…
Ever wanting to look like the “big kids on campus,” Boris Johnson and his British Empire nostalgia-driven government have offered 3 million Hong Kong nationals the right to move to England. Hurrah! Only 23 years after we gave up the colony. British National (Overseas) Passport In actual fact, what the UK has done is offer…
The idea of communist guerrillas may seem like an anachronism now. Isn’t that 60s and 70s stuff? Viet-Cong lurking in the jungle, or at a push, the FARC in Colombia who have since disarmed. (And are now being murdered at a frightening rate after the fact). But no, in some parts of the world, the…
Even in the most ardent of ultra-left-wing circles, you will be hard-pressed to find someone willing to fight the corner of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Hitler, Stalin, hell even Enver Hoxha still have their adherents, but when it comes to the Killing Fields, they appear one step too far even for apologists. But,…
Dark Tourism tends to be one of the most misunderstood genres around. Far from being a bunch of misery chasing bastards, dark tourists tend to be interested in contemporary issues related to tourism, no matter how terrible they may be. This, in contrast, to simply looking at really old temples. Have you heard the phrase…
In what might have been a big deal for most countries, Singapore announces that if it is still in “stage 2” of its coronavirus measures, there will be no election rallies. In a major announcement, political parties in the city-state will not be able to hold “mass rallies,” but will instead be permitted extra television…
Celebrating the birthday of Queen Sihanouk, mother of the Khmer nation.
You ever ate fish and gotten constipation? How about skipping the ‘eating’ part and just shoving the fish right up there? That seems to have been the thought process of a 30-year-old man in China who was taken to hospital in Guangdong not long ago with a ‘Mozambique tilapia’ rammed up his rectum. The fish…