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In a fairly wide ranging interview conducted with a Bloomberg reporter and published the on Journalism.sg, Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, has offered his advice for the Chinese government on dealing with foreign media. Much of it is pretty solid:You take Tibet. Who started it? It was started by the Tibetans. The March incident, March ...

There is no such thing as a dull year in China. 2008 is well underway and already looks like another whopper. We're only a month in and we've already had the biggest storms in half a century. The Olympics, the mother of all China events, is now a scant seven months off. God only knows what will happen in between. But before we get too far into ...

From time to time someone will ask me why I left Singapore for China. This is a fair question. I lived there for nearly a decade, Mrs. Imagethief is Singaporean, and I have great affection for the place. Usually I give some longish explanation about various professional and personal frustrations that were beginning to set in. From now on, however, ...

Imagethief and Mrs. Imagethief took themselves round to the splendid, new Wanda cinema in Beijing this weekend to catch the latest installment of Disney's ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' series. Imagethief was, in particular, looking forward to the ''Singapore'' segment of the film, which introduces Chow Yun Fat's Chinese pirate character, Sao Feng. ...

Imagethief was tickled to read today in Xinhua an article from the Boao Forum for Asia, an annual Chinese talking shop, on how Asian media will rise up to challenge western media juggernauts. It seems that Asians take umbrage that they are 96.2% of the world's population and yet produce only 0.3% of its international media. Or something like ...