Be Careful What you Say About Spinach
Why has the Malaysian kangkung (spinach) been trending all week?
The Malaysian Prime Minister made a speech earlier this week about the state of the economy. But his mention of kangkung (or water spinach) tickled the Malaysians’ sense of humour, and frustrations, so much that #kangkung jokes have been trending all week. But things changed when a blog post from ±«Óătv Trending was seemingly blocked – why?
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#±«ÓătvTrending’s Mukul Devichand is joined in the studio by Tse Yin Lee from ±«Óătv Monitoring and Fernanda Nidecker from ±«Óătv Brazil.
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