by Bob Chen Carrefour has been rolled into a campaign mixed up with both boycott and anti-boycott. Recently, a widely circulated message writes 我们希望您至少在5月1日这一天抵制家ä¹ç¦ï¼Œè®©5月1日家ä¹ç¦ç©ºè¡è¡çš„å–场å‘è¥¿æ–¹ä¼ è¾¾ä¸€ä¸ªä¿¡æ¯ï¼šä¸å›½ ä¸å¯è¾±ï¼ä¸å›½äººæ°‘ä¸å¯æ¬ºï¼ 抵制家ä¹ç¦çš„活动将在全国å„地展开,期待您的å‚与ï¼è°¢è°¢æ‚¨ã€‚ We hope you are able to boycott Carrefour at least on 1 May, to deliver, by the empty Carrefour that day, one message to the western world: Chinese shouldn’t […]
That place called Nollywood
As I watched ‘Hotel Rwanda’ a few days ago, I saw Sophie Okonedo’s tears fall and thought of how I’d like to dry them. ‘Beautiful woman, superb acting’, were the thoughts that crossed my mind about this lady with a Nigerian name but who was raised in Britain. After the movie and as I contemplated […]
Britain behind Gukurahundi massacres
A former Zimbabwean freedom fighter who, himself, was a victim of Gukurahundi says Britain and not South Africa was behind the 1980s massacres that left nearly 30 000 innocent civilians from Matabeleland and the Midlands dead. Douglas Moyo* says South Africa was just a front. Britain was the brains behind the massacres. All it […]
Bangladesh has lost 30,000 acres of land to India
Bangladesh has been losing thousands of acres of land to neighbouring India due to bank erosion of border rivers for years. The lands that have formed on the Indian side of the rivers have been occupied by Indian people who are using those mainly for crop cultivation and housing purposes. The Indian government is also […]