More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent” due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal.
Bible drawn into Hong Kong sex publication row
A spokesperson for Hong Kong’s Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.
The complaints follow the launch of an anonymous Web site — www.truthbible.net — which said the holy book “made one tremble” given its sexual and violent content, including rape and incest.
The Web site said the Bible’s sexual content “far exceeds” that of a recent sex column published in the Chinese University’s “Student Press” magazine, which had asked readers whether they’d ever fantasised about incest or bestiality.
That column was later deemed “indecent” by the Obscene Articles Tribunal, sparking a storm of debate about social morality and freedom of speech. Student editors of the journal defended it, saying open sexual debate was a basic right.
If the Bible is similarly classified as “indecent” by authorities, only those over 18 could buy the holy book and it would need to be sealed in a wrapper with a statutory warning notice.
TELA said it was still undecided on whether the Bible had violated Hong Kong’s obscene and indecent articles laws.
But a local protestant minister shrugged off this possibility.
“If there is rape mentioned in the Bible, it doesn’t mean it encourages those activities,” said Reverend Wu Chi-wai. “It’s just common sense … I don’t think that criticism will have strong support from the public,” he added.
It would be a sad day for Christianity would the Bible be classified as indecent. The thought haven’t cross my mind when reading the Bible. I think of the Bible as something like a history textbook, I’m a Christian, I’m probably a little bias. What do you think?
Two men died after 2 Taiwanese fighter jet crashes. Singapore Army sent people to Taiwan to train. The two servicemen who died in the incident have been identified as 19-year-old Corporal (CPL) Isz Sazli Bin Sapari and 23-year-old Private (PTE) Fan Yao Jin. Their next of kin have been informed. (Source)
I was blissfully unaware of this news, I was happily reading news about Paris Hilton and Bush impeachment. I’m a little amused that they had to stress the training as unilateral.
This post contains pictures of Taiwanese drama Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu (花样少年少女) is based on Hisaya Nakajo’s Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス, For You in Full Blossoms or Hana-kimi). Actors and actresses includes Ella Chen, Wu Zun and Jiro Wang. I added this post because there seems to be a lot of people interested in Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu pictures. I don’t have wallpapers for it, perhaps someone can draw out some wallpapers.
Note that these pictures may be spoilers.
(Rui Xi and Quan at a stadium.)
(Rui Xi and the big dog. I can’t remember if there is a name for the dog.)(more…)
Taiwanese drama Hua Yang Shao Nian Shao Nu (花样少年少女) is based on Hisaya Nakajo’s Hanazakari no Kimitachi e (花ざかりの君たちへ イケメン♂パラダイス, For You in Full Blossoms or Hana-kimi). I picked it up after I see the box lying around. And once I start watching it, I just couldn’t really stop. I took me about 16 hours to finish the whole series. Well, the story goes this way.
Lu Rui Xi 盧瑞希 (Ella Chen) lives in America and falls in love with high jumper Zuo Yi Quan 左以泉 (Wu Zun) she saw on television in a news segment. Determined to meet the man in the television, Rui Xi went on a strict diet regime and flew all the way to Taiwan and enrol herself in the same school as Yi Quan (AKA Quan).
It is an all-male school. Yeah, she blended in by disguising herself as a boy.
Rui Xi met the slightly off-frequency and comical Jin Xiu Yi 金秀伊 (Jiro Wang) who eventually got fiercely attracted to Rui Xi and starts to doubt his sexuality.
Of course, Rui Xi falls in love with Quan. (more…)
Every time when Chinese New Year comes, you see a bunch of retailers banking on the animal of the year. This year happens to be the year of the pig according to Chinese zodiac. You see gold pigs all around the shopping centers. The Singapore Mint also makes proof coins with pigs in silver and gold. One of the gold coin has colors too and it looks really pretty until closer examination and I realized that there was a pig there.
Swatch wants you to celebrate the year of the pig with them, so they got a bunch of models to act retarded in front of the cameras.
I think the Chinese market is really hard to understand. It’s the year of the pig and so many people are grabbing proof coins. My cousin sells them for the Singapore Mint every year and it’s good business. It’s hard to understand why banking on these pig stuff can actually work because many of these aren’t that pretty. It’s not like the year of the dog or the year of the dragon when those two creatures can actually look cute or majestic.
Pigs, in my opinion, just don’t look that great. Take a look at Swatch’s pig watch, I won’t wear that! My mother bought me an EZ Link card with this pig printed. I asked her if she really thought it was nice and she thought for a while and said, “it looks okay lar.”
“Really?” I asked again.
“Aiya, something different mah.”
[Okay, if you happened to be born in the year of the pig, I'm just saying the pigs don't look nice, you look absolutely great!]
North Korea’s 007, a currently very popular short movie by some Chinese netizens, mocks Kim Jong Il and his secret agent buying Hennessy XO wine from Chinese black market.
Oscar Weil and Benjamin Oppenheimer are Jews, and were sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Shanghai.
“Oscar,” asked Benjie, “Are there any Jews in China?”
“I don’t know,” Oscar replied.
“Why don’t we ask the waiter?”
When the waiter came by, Benjie asked him,
“Are there any Chinese Jews here in Shanghai?”
“I don’t know sir, let me ask,” the waiter replied, and he went into the kitchen.
He returned in a few minutes and said, “No, sir. No Chinese Jews.”
“Are you sure?” Benjie asked.
“I will check again, sir” the waiter replied and went back to the kitchen.
While he was still gone, Oscar said, “I cannot believe there are no Jews in China, our people are scattered everywhere.”
When the waiter returned he said, “Sir, no Chinese Jews.”
“Are you really sure?” Benjie asked again.
“I cannot believe there are no Chinese Jews.”
“Sir, I asked everyone,” the waiter replied exasperated, “we have orange Jews, apple Jews, tomato Jews and grape Jews, but no one ever hear of Chinese Jews! If you want, we have Chinese Tea.”
