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As protests against Covid restrictions continue to spread across China, the country’s state broadcaster has taken to censoring images of maskless crowds at the 2022 World Cup.

During Sunday’s World Cup group game between Japan and Costa Rica, the sports channel of China’s state broadcaster CCTV replaced shots of maskless fans in the stadium in favor of images of players and officials, according to the South China Morning Post. CCTV Sports was also reported to have cut crowd scenes from coverage of the game between Australia and Tunisia.

When the World Cup kicked off, images of maskless fans at the World Cup had riled Chinese viewers and social media users, known as netizens, with those supporting the country’s so-called Zero Covid policy deriding other countries for their reckless approach to Covid-19.

Over the weekend, rising nationwide anger over China’s...

Washington, May 24: Tomatoes, believed to be the most popular fruit in the world, could be made to taste better and have a longer shelf life.

Professor Cathie Martin from the John Innes Centre and her colleagues researched tomatoes enriched in anthocyanin, a natural pigment that confers high antioxidant capacity.

The purple Gm tomatoes have been found to prolong the lives of cancer-prone mice and in the new findings they have double the shelf life of normal tomatoes from an average of 21 days to 48 days.

Yang Zhang, lead author from the John Innes Centre, said that post-harvest losses because of rotting are so serious for growers and supermarkets that even an increased shelf life of 1 day will make a big difference.

14th Mumbai Film Festival (Mff) announced its complete lineup today in a press conference. Mff will be held from October 18th to 25th at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (Ncpa) and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues. Click here to watch trailers and highlights from the festival.

Here is the complete list of films to be screened during the festival (October 18-25)

International Competition for the First Feature Films of Directors

1. From Tuesday To Tuesday (De Martes A Martes)

Dir.: Gustavo Fernandez Triviño (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 111′)

2. The Last Elvis (El Último Elvis)

Dir.: Armando Bo (Argentina / 2012 / Col. / 91′)

3. The Sapphires

Dir.: Wayne Blair (Australia / 2012 / Col. / 103′)

4. The Wall (Die Wand)

Dir.: Julian Pölsler (Austria-Germany / 2012 / Col. / 108′)

5. Teddy Bear (10 timer til Paradis)

Dir.: Mads Matthiesen (Denmark / 2012 / Col. / 93′)

6. Augustine

Dir.: Alice Winccour (France / 2012 / Col.

hhmmmm… no?

Picking apart “best movie” lists made by anyone, methinks, is as futile as trying to ask someone why he married his wife. We all have our different reasons for loving films (or the opposite), and every human being has multiple holes in his or her body, one of which is called “opinions.” What’s fun about lists, though, is that they speak about the people who made them more than a photo and identikit, a list of the cars they own and how much they pay in taxes would. What happens, then, when a sacred cow (not of film criticism, mind you) like CNN picks the best Asian films of all time? More than any indication of quality, I find it peculiar in a way that goes beyond appreciation for film. It sounds a bit like a sort of Eurovision Song contest of filmmaking, being politically correct and...

HONG KONG -- Beijing director Yang Zhang's tentatively titled Air became the first project to find full funding at the third Hong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), with Hong Kong-based Filmko Holdings signing on to bankroll the $1.3 million project. Fortissimo Films is also on board for worldwide sales outside of Greater China, Singapore and Malaysia, for which Filmko holds distribution rights. "Negotiations had started much earlier, but there was a breakthrough in the past couple of days that enabled the deal to be sealed at the HAF," said Zhang, who broke onto the scene with 1997's Spicy Love Soup and earned his commercial success with Shower (1999). "We are very excited to be in business with one of China's most proven and exciting young filmmakers," Filmko CEO Alex Wong said. "We are sure that this film will further establish Zhang Yang as one of the strongest of China's young directors."...

HONG KONG -- Beijing director Yang Zhang's tentatively titled Air became the first project to find full funding at the third Hong Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), with Hong Kong-based Filmko Holdings signing on to bankroll the $1.3 million project. Fortissimo Films is also on board for worldwide sales outside of Greater China, Singapore and Malaysia, for which Filmko holds distribution rights. "Negotiations had started much earlier, but there was a breakthrough in the past couple of days that enabled the deal to be sealed at the HAF," said Zhang, who broke onto the scene with 1997's Spicy Love Soup and earned his commercial success with Shower (1999). "We are very excited to be in business with one of China's most proven and exciting young filmmakers," Filmko CEO Alex Wong said. "We are sure that this film will further establish Zhang Yang as one of the strongest of China's young directors."...

BEIJING -- China's top film awards, the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flower Film Festival, has been marred by reports of disorganization and discontent as it reached its third day Friday in Sanya, on the southern island province of Hainan. Guests of the 14th edition of the festival, which celebrates a century of Chinese cinema this year and will present awards Saturday night, complained to local media about rude festival staff, a lack of information for journalists, and the high price of items for sale, the Beijing Times reported. "If I had known that the organization would be so poor, I would not have come," actor Zhu Xu, who starred as the father figure in director Yang Zhang's 1999 feature Shower, told the daily.