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The Barbie ban and China’s hold over Hollywood

Vietnam has banned the new “Barbie” film because it features a map showing China’s claim to the South China Sea.

The Week

Mixue on the march: ice cream serves soft power for China in Southeast Asia

Mixue has dominated Southeast Asia’s ice cream and tea businesses for five years, having opened its first outlet in Vietnam in 2018. Based in China, where it operates 22,500 stores. Around 1,000 Mixue outlets now operate in several Southeast Asian countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. In comparison, despite…

The Conversation

Philippines top court orders re-arrest of suspect in activist killing

The Philippines' top court has ordered the re-arrest of a former politician accused of killing a prominent environmentalist more than a decade ago, court documents published Sunday showed.

Bangkok Post

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The NHS relies on nurses from poorer countries to fill jobs – here's how to tackle this problem

Recent media reports have highlighted the issue of nurses coming to the UK to work for the NHS from poorer countries with their own nursing shortfalls. This is a problem because when nurses leave countries that already have workforce shortages, healthcare in those countries inevitably suffers.

The Conversation

Philippine farmer killings revive dark memories of martial law

Killings by alleged state forces in the rural Philippines are getting more frequent and more bloody.

Al Jazeera

Lea Salonga heads the first all-Filipino cast of a Broadway show in 'Here Lies Love'

The anticipation of getting to play a Filipino character for the first time is something shared by the entire company of “Here Lies Love.”

The Independent UK

Women’s World Cup history hangs over co-hosts New Zealand

Group A preview: New Zealand are joined by star-studded Norway, Switzerland and World Cup debutants Philippines as the co-hosts look to claim their first ever victory at the tournament

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Philippines censors want part of Barbie scene blurred after film banned in Vietnam

Censorship board ‘meticulously’ examined the Greta Gerwig film

The Independent UK

Quiet diplomacy could ease South China Sea tensions

The South China Sea problem requires a political framework, which can only be created through dialogue, which the ASEAN must recognise

The Hindu

Players to watch on football's greatest stage

The biggest stars in women's football have made their way down under to showcase their skills at the FIFA Women's World Cup. Here's who you should be watching this tournament.

Newsroom.co.nz

Philippines censors want part of Barbie scene blurred after film banned in Vietnam

Censorship board ‘meticulously’ examined the Greta Gerwig film

The Independent UK

After a review, 'Barbie' movie will show in the Philippines, after all

The country's film regulator has decided that a map shown in the movie does not depict China's controversial nine-dash line.

WEKU

Philippines allows Barbie film with blurred South China Sea map

Censors want a ‘cartoonish map’ depicting China’s claim over the South China Sea blurred from the film.

Al Jazeera

LOCALIZE IT: America's star-studded women's World Cup team has community ties from coast to coast

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How do ‘Barbie’ and Blackpink figure in a dangerous territorial dispute?

Of all the things that could inflame tensions in a region that could someday be a theatre of war between superpowers, the movie “Barbie” was not an obvious catalyst. Yet here we are.

The Guardian - UK

Studio defends Barbie movie after controversial map prompts Vietnam ban

Warner Bros says map is ‘child-like’ after Vietnam accused film-makers of depicting China’s nine-dash line in South China Sea

The Times of India

US says Beijing’s moves ‘risky’ as Chinese ships ‘swarm’ sea

WASHINGTON: The US has expressed concern over China’s recent behavior towards Philippine vessels in the South China Sea, as the Southeast Asian nation reported Chinese vessels “swarming” south of an oil and gas-rich area in contested waters.

The Guardian - UK

‘Please come’: Taylor Swift fans in south-east Asia hope for tour date

With Singapore the only stop announced, the star’s huge followings in the Philippines and Thailand are left to rue their lack of suitable infrastructure

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After Vietnam, the Philippines could be next to ban 'Barbie.' Here's why

Philippine film regulators are reviewing Barbie after a senator said it depicts a map that China uses to lay claim to nearly all of the South China Sea. Warner Bros. says it's just a "doodle."

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Humanitarian impact bonds would allow businesses to be private saviors for public disasters

In May, Typhoon Mawar, the world’s strongest storm this year, was barreling toward the Philippines, where I live and work. Filipinos immediately began evacuating by the thousands. Mawar then slammed through Guam, carrying winds that gusted to 140 mph and killing most of the island’s power, but swerved away from…

Creative Bloq

That Philippines tourism ad was an accident waiting to happen

I've seen blunders like this all too often.

Salon

Philippines to ban "Barbie" movie, too?

The same issue that got the Tom Holland film "Uncharted" banned has come up yet again with "Barbie"

Pedestrian.tv

Here’s A Yassified Explainer On The Nine-Dash Line And Why Vietnam Has Banned The Barbie Movie

Calling all international relations bimbos and himbos.

The Conversation

What is the 'nine-dash line' and what does it have to do with the Barbie movie?

The new Barbie film starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling is set for imminent release. But according to Vietnam’s state-run Tuoi Tre newspaper the film’s release has been barred. The head of the Department of Cinema, a government body in charge of licensing and censoring foreign films, said

The Independent UK

Philippines tourism video used pictures of ‘rice terraces in Indonesia and dunes in Brazil’

Ad agency apologises for ‘unfortunate oversight’

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