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Oct 10, 2011 • Comments Closed A post marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty. There are checks, so many checks. Layers of security and gates and searches to go through before they finally lead you to a long corridor. The walls are painted pale yellow and the smell is hard to describe. Sharp and sour and distinct, it hits...
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Sep 21, 2011 • Comments Closed iProtest follows activist Debby Chan as she works to gather evidence against Foxconn and Apple, often at great risk to herself.
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Sep 19, 2011 • Comments Closed In May this year, we followed Hong Kong activist Debby Chan, as she investigated allegations of labour rights abuses at Foxconn, the company that manufactures shiny Apple gadgets like the iPad. Debby was an inspiration – smart, fearless and focused. She taught us what it meant to stand up for a cause, and showed us...
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Sep 16, 2011 • Comments Closed What was your childhood like? If you’re Chinese, was it filled with after-school tuition classes, piano and swimming lessons, ballet and homework? Did your parents tell you it was all for your own good? Do you now agree? Cram school in Hong Kong Recently, we spent three weeks in Hong Kong visiting schools and talking...
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Aug 18, 2011 • Comments Closed She was one of the reasons why we grew to love Oecusse. The little East Timorese enclave inside Indonesia had fabulous beaches and brilliant sunsets and the best grilled fish in the world. But only if you knew Senora Jacinta. I still remember how she did them – stuffed with air manas, barbecued over a...
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Aug 12, 2011 • Comments Closed It’s taken us a little longer than expected, but we’re almost there now. Poster design by Joshua Chiang.
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Jul 30, 2011 • Comments Closed Remember Amulla Sarkar? He’s the old man in ‘Small Fry, Big Catch’ who was chased off his land by shrimp cultivators. Amulla is pushing 90. His memory is barely there. But he knows what’s right and he knows what’s his. And even though some of his fellow victims have given up hope and moved away,...
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Jul 14, 2011 • Comments Closed John Njoroge had never raced before. But on the 11th of July, he finished 13th in the Etape du Tour. 13th in a field of more than 9,000 cyclists. His time – 3 hours 52 minutes and 13 seconds. He’d covered a distance of 107 km and climbed the Telegraph, Galibier and Alpe d’Huez. When...
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Jul 6, 2011 • Comments Closed The new training camp in Iten It was late. We’d just come off a long, somewhat hairy ride to Nairobi when a young man approached Nicholas. He had joined us for the journey from Iten – all six hours – and we hadn’t even noticed him. There were just too many bikes, and bags and...
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Jun 15, 2011 • Comments Closed … some dastardly person hacked into this site and started redirecting traffic to a page advertising “Hot Links!”. We’re sorry it’s taken this long to figure out how to reclaim what’s ours. But we’re back, finally. And we hope never to disappear again. So what’s happening at Lianain Films? We’ve just returned from a shoot...
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Apr 25, 2011 • Comments Closed Bangladesh is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of shrimp, harvesting an estimated 20,000 tonnes each year. Half of that finds its way to Europe, and a quarter to American restaurants and supermarkets. It is a major industry – employing some 750,000 people and generating hundreds of millions of dollars annually, crucial revenue for an...
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Apr 13, 2011 • Comments Closed We met the Cheong family in KL last week. It was almost unbearable, witnessing their despair, pain and anger. You’d feel the same way too if you had a brother on death row. Cheong Chun Yin has been convicted of trafficking 2.7 kg of heroin into Singapore. To this day, he maintains he did not...
