By Reuters and published by CNA :Berlin – Arts critics are used to trashing sub-par performances with negative reviews, but they are rarely on the receiving end of an all-too-literal smear campaign. This weekend though, the chief choreographer of Hanover State Opera smeared the face of a dance critic with dog excrement after she
Read moreTag: critic
Thanathorn not discouraged despite being hit with many cases
PROGRESSIV Movement leader Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit said today (Feb. 17) that in entering the political arena he has now been hit with lots of cases which waste his time but have not led to any discouragement, INN News and Sanook.com said. Thanathorn, who is the leading government critic, was a few days ago ordered by the
Read moreChinese tycoon and Xi critic jailed for 18 years
By CNN Business Beijing – A Chinese billionaire who criticized President Xi Jinping’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been jailed for 18 years on corruption charges, a court said today (Sept. 22, 2020). Ren Zhiqiang, a retired real-estate tycoon with close ties to senior Chinese officials, disappeared in March after he allegedly penned a
Read more