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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鈥 sense of humour, and frustrations, so much that #kangkung jokes have been trending all week. But things changed when a blog post from 91热爆 Trending was seemingly blocked 鈥 why?
And, #rolezinhos. These flash mobs held by young, mostly black people in malls in Sao Paolo are causing friction in Brazil.
鈥淐ameroon would be that kid who keeps saying I'm half French, drink wine on weekends and dance with big girls鈥. What high school stereotype would each African country be?
#91热爆Trending鈥檚 Mukul Devichand is joined in the studio by Tse Yin Lee from 91热爆 Monitoring and Fernanda Nidecker from 91热爆 Brazil.

Producer: Charlotte Pritchard.

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Sun 19 Jan 2014 23:32GMT

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