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WEIBO Ms Yang has over one million followers on Weibo, arguably China's most popular social media platform A Chinese live-streaming celebrity has been detained for five days for "insulting" the country's national anthem. Yang Kaili, a 20-year-old with tens of millions of followers, had appeared on camera singing the anthem while flailing her arms around. The live-streaming platform, Huya, had earlier taken down her video and banned her channel. Ms Yang, who is also known as Li Ge, has since publicly apologised. The Shanghai Police Department said in a statement on Saturday that she had violated China's National Anthem Law. "The national anthem is a symbol of the country, all citizens should respect [it] and safeguard [its] dignity," it said. "Live-streaming platforms are not above the law - the law and moral standards similarly apply there." Under China's National Anthem Law, which came into force last year, those who sing the anthem...

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Moon urges US move towards formally ending Korean War By AFP South Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) listens to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a meeting at the presidential Blue House in Seoul on October 7, 2018. – Pompeo held talks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on October 7, before landing in Seoul on a whirlwind diplomatic visit to the region. (Photo by KIM HONG-JI / POOL / AFP) South Korean President Moon Jae-in called Friday on the United States to move towards the nuclear-armed North’s demands for a declaration the Korean War is over, as the allies pursue increasingly different approaches towards Pyongyang. Washington has shied away from a formal announcement that the 1950-53 conflict, when hostilities ceased with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, has ended, saying that the North must first take more steps towards giving up its atomic arsenal. For its part Pyongyang — which long insisted it needed nuclear weapons to defend itself against a...