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Anyone within earshot will know that Imagethief welcomed his son, Zachary, into the world last March 9th. The nearly four months since have been one long sleepless adventure. Despite my fatigue induced delirium, however, the experience has been a happy one. Like parents everywhere I take the most profound pleasure in things that non-parents ...

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 ...

The wires report that he has been freed, in time for Chinese New Year.

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 ...

As someone deeply invested in Singapore's future, Imagethief has been saddened by outbursts of anger and resentment generated by the hefty pay raises recently awarded to Singaporean ministers by Singaporean ministers. Sure, at first glance it might appear ruinously politically tone deaf, self-serving and nauseatingly lavish by virtually any ...

OK, anybody who didn't see this coming, go bang your head against the wall until your brain falls out: BEIJING, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Chinese shares slumped sharply on profit-taking on Tuesday, with the major Shanghai index down 8.84 percent, the biggest daily drop in 10 years. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index, covers both A- and ...

Having just returned from a week's vacation in Singapore, Imagethief can report that the city-state's image in much of Southeast Asia is, not to put too fine a point on it, crappy. Singapore has a reputation for arrogance, part of which is justified and part of which is probably due to its relative prosperity and a degree of anti-Chinese racism. ...