Motion Picture Rating Systems

Ratings are not the be-all, end-all for Derby selection

7 Mar 2012

Last year's Derby-winning trainer, Tony Millard, obviously had his own view after the final race on Sunday with regards to the classic this year, when he was heard to muse in the aftermath that...

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Now TV fined HK$150,000

30 Jan 2010

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Watchdog drafts first movie industry law

8 Feb 2009

The mainland's media watchdog has drafted the country's first movie industry law that once approved will introduce a hotly debated rating system but uphold a ban on films with adult content.

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Film ratings law a small, positive step for mainland

8 Feb 2009

In places like Hong Kong, a movie rating system aims to shield children from harmful material and satisfy community standards. On the mainland, however, film censorship is more an instrument of...

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Board unfair in handling of 'toothpick' site, court hears

5 Dec 2008

A Swire subsidiary defending a controversial development in the Mid-Levels says the Town Planning Board did not look at the big picture for the Seymour Road project.

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Hollywood East

23 Feb 2008

The amazing thing about the celebrity sex picture mess is not its unprecedented explicitness, the scandalous web of Hong Kong stars and pop idols ensnared, or the bizarre round of rumours about...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Jake Van Der Kamp

iBonds are little help in easing inflation and a bad bet financially

3:55AM

Depraved? Modern viewers get chance to see for themselves

London

Depraved, shocking, perverted, disgusting, immoral - these are just some of the words applied to the films comprising the Barbican Centre's new season, Seduced: Sex and...

7:52AM

Coarse film cleared for children to see

The broadcasting watchdog has taken the unusual step of allowing a Hong Kong film that includes strong language to be seen by people of all ages in local cinemas

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Film studies: Plumbing the deaths

The usual cultural suspects have been rounded up in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings, with Hollywood under renewed scrutiny after Cho Seung-Hui's rampage left 32 people dead.

4:19AM

Film rating system on hold

Expectations that a film classification system will be introduced soon have been dashed by an official who says there is no timetable for the complex scheme.

7:42PM

Outmoded act

No nipples please, but any amount of blood-letting is fine. That is how the Thai film censorship board operates, much to the frustration not only of the moviemakers but also the moviegoers.

7:04AM

Pointless fuzzy bits

Please enlighten me Hong Kong censors, as to why you do not consider your citizens mature enough to view the uncensored version of The Human Body on Discovery Channel at 10pm every Wednesday.

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