History is made at night

That the state seeks to clamp down on 'pirate radio' is perhaps not surprizing, what is inspiring though is that across the world pe...

Hip hop has provided a voice for rebels in the recent uprisings in North Africa, notably in Tunisia . So perhaps not surprisingly other repr...

Tibetan singer Tashi Dhondup is reportedly serving 15 months hard labour after being arrested by the Chinese authorities for his 'subve...

Interesting article from Shanghai Daily (10 February 2010) on roller disco dancing in Shanghai : 'The world has moved on from roller-ska...

Ma Jian's Beijing Coma (2008) is a fictionalised account of the events leading up to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in China, and ...

Twenty years after the Tiananmen Square massacre (4 June 1989) there seems to be some amnesia about what actually happened in China at that ...

War in Gaza, and (less publicised) war in Sri Lanka , war in the Democratic Republic of Congo , not to mention Afghanistan and Iraq. It'...

My thoughts go out to the victims of the nightclub fire in Shenzhen, China this weekend: Thirteen people have been detained in connection wi...

England: Norfolk rave shut down ( Norwich Evening News , 14 April 2008) 'Three people were arrested when an illegal rave was shut down ...

'A Tibetan singer well known as a feminist activist has been taken by Chinese authorities and her family has received no word of her fat...