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1. News - Asia

   Briefs, January 12, 2013

   Posted Jan 12th 2013, 12:00am by VARIOUS

   ... News Asia Singapore Satirical film Shirani Bandaranayake Rohingya refugee Agencies Singapore lifts ban on 'offensive' satirical film SINGAPORE - The government yesterday lifted a ban on a satirical film deemed "offensive" to the Indian community, but said producers would have to edit some portions and show it only to adults. The ban was slapped ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1125844/briefs-january-12-2013
2. News - China - TELEVISION

   CCTV 'misses irony' in using Jon Stewart satire to mock US on Guantanamo Bay

   Posted May 07th 2013, 01:22pm by Ernest Kao

   ... audiences with an American political satire show when few of the sort was on offer domestically. “At least they are free [in the US] to criticise their president openly on television,” one netizen ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1232185/cctv-misses-irony-using-jon-stewart-satire-mock-us-guantanamo-bay
3. Lifestyle - Arts & Culture - FILM

   All hail 'The Master', 3-D and nostalgia trips

   Posted Dec 30th 2012, 12:00am by James Mottram, Paul Fonoroff and Yvonne Teh

   ... - and has become the biggest film of all time at the British box office, eclipsing Avatar (£94.03 million). At the time of writing, Skyfall looks set to become the first film to break the £100 ...

   http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/1114442/all-hail-master-3-d-and-nostalgia-trips
4. The luck of the draw for budding cartoonists

   Posted Aug 25th 2008, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... Humanities Literature Satire By Young Post intern Yoon Hur If you love European culture and are good at art, you could win a trip to Paris. The French Presidency of the European Union is holding a contest for budding cartoonists on the theme 'World Views on Europe'. There are no specific requirements for submissions. Entrants can choose to draw satirical or political ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/650273/luck-draw-budding-cartoonists
5. Athletes of old whined - and wore - much less

   Posted May 05th 2008, 12:00am by Annemarie Evans

   ... Biology Satire Soft Matter with Annemarie Evans. Additional reporting by Clara Mak. Steroids, schmeroids. All we hear is drugs, drugs, drugs. Can he really lift that weight/run at the speed of light/is that bicep bulge all his? Sometimes it seems as if sport these days is all about little white pills and urine samples. Yet if we go back to the days of the ancient Olympics, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/636415/athletes-old-whined-and-wore-much-less
6. The Scheme for Full Employment

   Posted Apr 11th 2004, 12:00am by Diana McPartlin

   ... Labor Scheme Productivity Satire Compiled by Diana McPartlin The Scheme for Full Employment by Magnus Mills Perennial $108 A subtle satire about bureaucracy and what happens when people are more concerned with documenting their productivity than actually producing things. The Scheme is a make-work project, which ran for 30 years in Britain, in which UniVans pick up and unload ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/451661/scheme-full-employment
7. In the Loop

   Posted Sep 06th 2009, 12:00am by Annabel Walker

   ... Partridge and The Thick of It, brings his biting political satire to the international stage. In the Loop fictionalises British and US political machinations in the run up to a war in the Middle ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/691623/loop
8. Comment - Blogs - MEDIA

   Another Chinese news outlet falls victim to satire, fooled on fake Krugman report

   Posted Mar 11th 2013, 12:22pm by Ernest Kao

   ... high-priest of Keynesianism was published by satirical news website The Daily Currant last week. And like its competitor The Onion , the Currant banks on two types of audiences: those who appreciate ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1188227/another-chinese-news-outlet-falls-victim-satire-fooled-fake-krugman
9. News - World - US ELECTION

   Stumbling politicians at risk of Tumblr

   Posted Nov 07th 2012, 12:00am by Agence France-Presse in Washington

   ... and they brought us whole binders full of women," he said. The Twittersphere lit up, and a satirical account on Tumblr, the blogging platform was set up, featuring photos of various women holding ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1076549/stumbling-politicians-risk-tumblr
10. I Served the King of England

    Posted Jul 10th 2008, 12:00am by Clarence Tsui

    ... in wartime Czechoslovakia, as he rises from being a waiter in a small-town pub to become a rich hotelier by aligning himself with whoever is in power. Based on a satire by the late Bohumil Hrabal ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/644647/i-served-king-england

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