AppleApple asks suppliers in Taiwan to label products as made in China – reportNikkei says firm wants components bound for mainland to now comply with longstanding Beijing rule
Apple has reportedly asked Taiwan-based suppliers to label their products as being produced in China, in an effort to avoid disruption from strict Chinese customs inspections resulting from the visit of the US House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, to Taipei.
According to Nikkei, the company has asked manufacturers on the island to label components bound for mainland China as made in “Chinese Taipei” or “Taiwan, China”.
OperaThe true story of the French revolutionary soldier was so grotesquely dramatic, we knew it had to be told – with puppets
When we first came across the story of Tarrare – a perpetually hungry 18th-century sideshow freak and French revolutionary soldier who ate live animals and amputated limbs, and who was captured smuggling military secrets through Prussia in his stomach, in a box he had swallowed – our first thought was: “Why has nobody turned this into a puppet opera?
TheatreReviewHome, Manchester
Directed by Bijan Sheibani, Baker’s play follows five acting students whose role play reveals more than they expect
‘I would like to say that I write for everyone,” the US playwright Annie Baker mused in an interview. “But I probably just write for depressed people who enjoy ambiguity and long silences.” It’s a bigger constituency than you might imagine. The Flick and John have both been successes at the National Theatre, and this revival of her 2009 play is performed with richly layered compassion.
Jean Simmons: a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Jean Simmons, who died at the weekend at the age of 80, was one of Hollywood's most luminous stars. Here are some highlights from her long career Mon 25 Jan 2010 15.27 GMT First published on Mon 25 Jan 2010 15.27 GMT Jean Simmons, pictured here in May 1959, has died in Santa Monica, California.
Photograph: Kellie French/The Guardian. Photography assistant: Harry Brayne Photograph: Kellie French/The Guardian. Photography assistant: Harry BrayneSali Hughes on beautyMakeupThe best bases for a big day, from the latest product technology to the top high-street picks
It strikes me that although bridal style has evolved significantly in the past decade, in that any dress – or indeed trousers – and makeup style goes, the requirements of a bridal foundation are necessarily the same as they’ve always been.
The ObserverPlastic surgeryAs former supermodel Linda Evangelista reveals her years of anguish after operations, history shows that nature usually wins
I’m actually rather sorry for Linda Evangelista. Everybody wants to feel acceptable, after all, and she exists in a world where, despite all the modern declarations of diversity and body positivity, when the woman hits the catwalk she still has to be slim.
In her 50s, and gobsmackingly pretty, Evangelista chose to get a treatment called cryolipolysis, where body fat is frozen till it dies, and you poop it out.
Three thingsAustralian lifestyleIn our weekly interview about objects, the beloved author of Puberty Blues talks cossie catastrophes, teenage antics and proving her teachers wrong
Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcast Puberty Blues holds a special place in the heart of many Australians. First, it was the book that scandalised 1970s audiences for its frank depictions of teenage sex, drug-taking and pregnancy. Next came the 1981 movie adaptation that popularised the immortal sledge “fish-faced molls” and, some decades later, a TV series that brought the surfie saga to a new generation in 2012.
The nature of ...Marine life This article is more than 5 months oldA horseshoe crab: it is only when you see the shell wet from the water, close up, that you know they are realThis article is more than 5 months oldHelen SullivanThey have milky blue blood that can detect toxins – and people in lab coats want it
Every day in bright clinical rooms in countries all over the world, horseshoe crabs are strapped into specially designed harnesses and drained of a third of their blood by people in lab coats.
Book of the dayHistory booksReviewOhler’s book claims not only that German soldiers and civilians commonly used methamphetamine, but that Hitler was a drug addict
Nazi Germany proclaimed from the outset that it was going to break with the moral and physical degeneracy of the Weimar republic. The Hitler Youth would provide the younger generation with physical exercise, military drill and long hikes over the mountains, in place of sex, drugs, alcohol, dance-halls and the “negroid” music of jazz and swing.
TheatreReviewVaudeville, LondonYou never know quite where you are with Neil LaBute. As he has shown in plays such as The Shape of Things and The Mercy Seat, he's a moralist who seems to delight in depicting human cruelty and in hoodwinking an audience. And in this highly entertaining, 100-minute two-hander he pulls the rug from under our feet so often that we end up feeling breathless.
The play starts, intriguingly enough, with a sibling encounter in a midwestern cabin during a violent storm.