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Trending: Malaysia’s Naughty Boy, Baltimore Riots and Chinese Speaking English

Malaysia’s Naughty Boy, Baltimore Riots and Chinese Speaking English

02/05/2015

BBC World Service - Trending, Malaysia’s Naughty Boy, Baltimore Riots and Chinese Speaking English

Who is Alvin Tan and why is he facing trial on sedition charges in Malaysia?

Who is the Malaysian YouTuber facing trial on sedition charges? And, why so many people on Chinese media reacted to a tech executive speaking English.

Alvin Tan describes himself as a sex blogger, trouble maker and freedom of speech activist. He is currently facing trial for insulting the month of Ramadan and posting pornographic pictures on the internet. We find out how he became so big on social media, why he is claiming asylum in the US, and what conservative Malaysia thinks of their infamous naughty boy.

BBC Trending's Mike Wendling wraps up the social media reaction to the riots in Baltimore after the death in custody of black man, Freddie Gray. And Tse Yin Lee joins us from BBC Monitoring to discuss the vagaries of learning English when you are Chinese. Why did hundreds of thousands of Chinese take to social media after the chief executive of Chinese telecoms giant company Xiaomi addressed a conference in India, in English?

Photo: MALAYSIA-INTERNET-ISLAM-SEX-COURT-RELIGION (Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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