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By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> If you have just seen a play that you think is drivel, would you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore? Possibly not, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Combining a psychological experiment and mathematical analysis, the research marked a scientific attempt to quantify the fuzzy notion of “social contagion” – how individual behaviour is influenced by group dynamics. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Research shows that peer pressure drives social behaviour
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A young girl shocked her family when she broke her silence and told them she could no longer endure the beatings and abuse from a staff member at school. Murong was one of six schoolgirls aged around 11 who were sexually abused by a classroom adviser for two years in a remote village in the northeast mainland. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading In China, healing sexually abused children starts with fight against conservatism
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A series of events celebrating Hong Kong’s comics and animation will be held this and next month to mark the opening of the city’s first site dedicated to the popular culture. But while fans will enjoy a feast of exhibitions and film screenings, the reality is not as rosy as it seems. While welcoming the opening of the Comix Home Base at the Green House in Wan Chai next month, local comics and animation veterans say the small domestic market has made their lives difficult. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Comics fest hides the grim reality of animation world
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The security chief was trying to placate a worried public following Snowden’s claims in the media that US agencies have carried out hundreds of cyberspying operations in Hong Kong. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Hong Kong’s security chief orders around-the-clock protection for data network
By , on June 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Open University students are protesting against the selection of a pro-Beijing scholar as the university’s president, the second protest in a week by students angered over a lack of say in the choice of their institution’s head. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Appointment of pro-Beijing scholar stirs up students at OpenU
By , on June 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> “Adopting and handling abandoned infants at one’s own will is forbidden,” a circular, issued by seven government departments, said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading China to place ban on private orphan shelters
By , on June 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The highly publicised divorce between News Corp chief executive Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, has divided the online community, especially after a BBC correspondent familiar with the matter revealed on Twitter that Murdoch’s reasons for divorce were “jaw dropping”. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Wendi Deng called ‘evil’ and ‘admirable’ on China’s Weibo after Murdoch divorce news
By , on June 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HONG KONG — It’s probably for the best that Edward Snowden didn’t turn up at a weekend rally in support of him here in this former British colony. Having declared that he has faith in Hong Kong’s rule of law, and that he believes the courts and people of the semiautonomous Chinese territory will decide his fate, he might have been distressed by legislator Claudia Mo’s downbeat remarks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Edward Snowden wrong about Hong Kong, some in territory say
By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Men and their preference for younger female mates may have led to the phenomenon of menopause in women, according to a controversial study by Canadian researchers. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Men to blame for menopause in women, says study
By , on June 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten bedridden terminal cancer patients lie in the dimly lit, quiet hospice ward at the Jingan Temple Community Hospital in Shanghai. Most are cared for by auxiliary workers, who look after a few at a time. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Shanghai’s hospice wards offer terminal patients a better last stop
By , on June 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> BEIJING — Officially, the Chinese government has nothing to say about Edward Snowden. But unofficially, its representatives are happy to dump on the United States. Chinese state media have let loose with a barrage of criticism of the country’s rival world power, especially after former U.S. government contractor Snowden said widespread American Internet surveillance includes spying on people in China. The English-language China Daily on Thursday ran a large cartoon of a shadowed Statue of Liberty holding a tape recorder and microphone instead of a tablet and torch. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chinese state media chide U.S. over surveillance revelations
By David Fontana, on June 11th, 2013 The elite Federalist Society has become an exceptionally effective conservative group. David Fontana looks at how that happened.
Continue reading A Small Right-Wing Conspiracy
By , on June 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> On a tropical island in Papua New Guinea where most people live in huts, a mob armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed a wooden house by night. They seized Helen Rumbali and three female relatives, set the building on fire and took the women away to be tortured. Their alleged crime: witchcraft. After being repeatedly slashed with knives, Rumbali’s older sister and two teenage nieces were released following negotiations with police. Rumbali, a 40-something former schoolteacher, was beheaded. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Papua New Guinea’s growing wealth gap fuels torture, killing of ‘witches’
By , on June 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> As Hong Kong authorities remain silent on the whereabouts and potential fate of US whistle-blower Edward Snowden, legal and political experts are weighing in on what could happen and the choices available to 29-year-old former intelligence contractor. If Snowden wanted to stay in Hong Kong, his best chance would be to apply for refugee status, under the claim that he could be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment (CIDTP) or punishment if extradited back to the United States, said Patricia Ho, counsel with local human rights law firm Barnes and Daly. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Speculation rife in Hong Kong over Edward Snowden’s fate
By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) set up its Cat Colony Care Programme in 2000. The method behind its attempts to stabilise and reduce the number of stray and feral cats involves three steps: trap, neuter and release. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Snip for strays helps win feral cat fight
By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The maze of corridors in the five, 17-storey blocks has sat in the heart of Tsim Sha Tsui for more than half a century. But it was the 1994 Wong Kar-wai movie Chungking Express that earned the buildings in Nathan Road their iconic status. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Chungking Mansions a study of life lived in the raw
By , on June 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Opening a two-day summit, President Barack Obama drew attention to contentious economic and cybersecurity issues on Friday night (Saturday morning Hong Kong time) as he warmly received Chinese President Xi Jinping to a California desert estate for high-stakes talks. Under a shaded walkway as temperatures surged above 100 degrees, the two leaders — in white shirts and suit coats but no ties — greeted each other and walked side by side to start their first in-person meetings since Xi took office in March. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Obama Raises Cybersecurity, economy in summit
By Dan Amira, on June 7th, 2013 "I think it’s important to recognize that you can’t have a hundred percent security and also then have a hundred percent privacy and zero inconvenience," President Obama said earlier today. "You know, we’re going to have to make some choices as a society." The problem is that it’s not easy … More »
Continue reading PRISM Stopped Najibullah Zazi From Blowing Up Backpacks in the Subway
By Katie Van Syckle, on June 7th, 2013 Earlier this week, we made a plea for Mad Men to bring back Sal Romano. No telling whether Matthew Weiner heard us, but Bryan Batt, who played Sal, sure did — he told us so himself last night, at a screening of I’m So Excited hosted by the Cinema Society. … More »
Continue reading Bryan Batt Doesn’t Think Mad Men’s Sal Romano Is Out of the Closet
By Katie Van Syckle, on June 7th, 2013 Dennis Rodman took in a basketball game with Kim Jong-un. Steven Seagal watched a judo match with Vladimir Putin. Gérard Depardieu recorded a song with the daughter of Uzbekistan strongman Islam Karimov. It seems like every, er, formerly more-popular celebrity has a despot buddy these days. So last night a screening for … More »
Continue reading Dolph Lundgren Would Like to Shoot Sniper Rifles With Vladimir Putin
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Research shows that peer pressure drives social behaviour
<!– google_ad_section_start –> If you have just seen a play that you think is drivel, would you keep silent when everyone around you demands an encore? Possibly not, according to research published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Combining a psychological experiment and mathematical analysis, the research marked a scientific attempt to quantify the fuzzy notion of “social contagion” – how individual behaviour is influenced by group dynamics. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
Continue reading Research shows that peer pressure drives social behaviour
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