A Chinese girl is listening to a reading of a poem by her artist English lover in Hackney, “This Anon very good writer, I think I prefer to Shakespeare, much easier”, says Z, from a small industrial town in China. A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers is written in intentionally broken English by the busy [...]
Most of the Chinese restaurants are noisy, as long as there are a certain number of Chinese people, no matter where. In the restaurants in Gui Jie in Beijing, you can barely hear the person sitting opposite to you across the 4-seat table. It’s not because we are rude or impolite or ill-mannered, just it’s [...]
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The third annual London International Documentary Festival opened last weekend and runs all this week. The event boasts some ninety short and feature films over eight days, and gives audiences a chance to take part in themed screenings and debates.Canadian filmmaker and writer Patrick Pearce has been covering the festival and talks about some of [...]
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According to The World Bank, food prices rose more than 80% from 2005 to 2008, and small farmers are suffering from rising costs and price instability. Fair-trade Foundation is a Britain-based non-profit organization that guarantees minimum prices to help farmers sustain their businesses. To raise public awareness for this cause, the foundation has organized Fair-trade [...]
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More than one hundred and fifty thousand students in Britain are affected by homophobic bullying, according to a recent study. In an attempt to solve the problem, some schools in London are starting gay education programs, which involve teaching children about relationships between people of the same sex. But for parents and teachers, gay education [...]
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Just weeks after Israel’s attack on Gaza, a controversial play about a Palestinian and his family’s life during the conflict is being staged in a fringe theater in north London. It is called Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea. And it focuses on the human side of the action which the producers say hasn’t been [...]
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Produced by Alex Wood, Francois Aulner and Zhao Xue.
