A stumbling block for the switch to home office during the pandemic. Im british. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. Leaving hong kong prodemocracy, joshua wong and 2 others could be facing long jail times after pleading guilty to protest charges. The 3 were taken into custody in hong kong earlier today. Wong and fellow activists, ivan lamb, and agnes had been charged with organizing, participating in and inciting demonstrators during a protest outside Police Headquarters last june. They could be facing up to 5 years in prison. This is what was said, as he appeared in court. What we are doing now is to explain the well freedom to the world through our compassion, the home we love so much that we are willing to sacrifice the freedom of our own time for a prayer hall and have been charged walking free. This case patrol the world and Pay Attention to the opportunity power of the criminal Justice System impartially. His manner played by paging crackdown and the systematic violence in created the need for more, im joined by hong kong, gnomic. Im prodemocracy activist and law. And this unwelcome does the best of joshua wong, you think, symbolize the end of hong kongs proDemocracy Movement . Well, i dont think its symbolized the end of the pool to receive it. But it reinforces the end of one country 2 systems into the authorities want to see movement because and this and i 1st arrests, these political persecution from the government under and, and just legal system that inclines to prosecute and suppress prodemocracy activists. So its basically punching people because they speak the truth and to sit freedom and democracy. But the same things were said when hong kongs or 2nd of june or was introduced, were back in june. That its the end of the one country. 2 systems, a principle and this is been said over the last year as well. Why is it special now and what is the way forward . No, for the for Democracy Movement in hong kong. Yeah, i think we all agree that the sweeping, powell, the National Security law makes hong kongs freedom just a lucian for now. So i guess thats the reason why i set a reinforcement of the notion of the end of one time tree to system. Because it really shows that the government has sets of legal weapons that can be used to practice it. Prosecute people and we have lost our freedom of speech and assembly. So on the role moving forward. I think its important that we try our best to say got the freedoms that we have left. And we have to defend the professional values in journalism. In could be me, i know education in order to receive these grave threats from chinese authorities say, but how do you do that . Maybe some law there appears to be virtually no need to provision left in hong kong for these. It aims to be pursued. How do you differ in freedom of, of assembly . How do you defend for the right to protest . How do you defend the freedom of the press . I think only only one hand, the International Effort is what we become a very important notion for us to really strike full on larger pressure in internationally on chinese human rights. Alesha in order for them to retract that hand approaches in fuchsia. And on the other hand, in hong kong, a recent research in the battle of use of these professional be used, for example of a cation journalism journalist trying to report the truth and test the red line, bottom line, all to governments. And they have a legal proceeding in that and every goss and putting pressure on the agencies, i think much more subtle, but also very important notion and Better Future to fight for. In the future. You have spoken about International Efforts against the Chinese Government in support of the people of hong kong. In fact, you spoke about this the last time you were in berlin. You were in the stored studio and you said the woman needs to bring to a Court Coalition of defending Democratic Values to tackle chinese actions in hong kong and other regions such injuring. Do you see that Coalition Building . Indeed, we could see the trend over the Counter Measures from a specially european country saw for the implementation of the National Security law for old european countries, uplifting they should the treaty which hong kong, extending the arms embargo, and also the european, sanctioning mckennas amazed, coming out from the European Union could be applied to Chinese Office shows our own coffee shows are responsible for the humorous alesha. So i guess the trend is quite all of us in the European Union going back to a very big on a relationship, whats china . And i think we just need to see consensus building process and make sure that democracies see china us as a threat and stop them from infiltrating and expanding authoritarian expansion nature. Theres a low reliever there with timing, but thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. So much traditional ink stamps are used to sign everything from delivery receipts, to mounted certificates in japan. And thats led to an Office Culture that remains heavily dependent on paper documents difficult to transition to in home office during the push to digitize the mission and phase out this time faces an uphill struggle in a country frame for its technology. The land of the bullet train, there are still of some things that move britain slower pace than japan to get digitize ation. The printer and piles and piles of paper remain staples that the japanese office. And so just this, the hanko, a c. E. O. Used to sign off for an official documents. Some documents require multiple stamps, going up the chain of command who are also a little charitable. We have 5000 names and seals on file. We have to find the hanko and then stamp, and if something is stamped in correctly, then its a huge problem. And then we have to file them all back again. Got to the point in time was that the practice is even the parts of jokes on japanese television, repetitive strain injury. Anyone has come under scrutiny. Juror in the coronavirus pandemic with reports of employees being unable to work from home because of having to stamp documents in the office. Of course, some in japan are also proud of the tradition which came from china more than a 1000 years ago. Each handmade stamp is unique. Parents often give them to their children as a coming of age, gift, or bonuses for say, the, even if they dont see of the made in the same forms, they carry the personality of each craftsman who spends a long time creating them while consulting with clients that means that each hanko stop naturally is unique in the world. But even hanko supporters recognize the need to modernize i dont think we need to adjust ourselves to new styles. New areas, though, its a challenge because lots of industries have disappeared because they couldnt keep up with the speed of change. We need to take on the challenge and continue our business. Industry wont disappear. One of them because im into, wants to limit the use of seals for select instances. Digital signatures will be an option, but itll probably be a while yet before the hanko is stamped out. And joining us from all this is called, shes a Management Consultant and educator focused on Cross Cultural communications in japan for sure. Why is this hunk or star so hot to go off in japan . Oh, its a tradition. And in so many work process that in a word eliminate hunger use, youd have to change the entire workflow. Speaking of these things being eliminated in book process is that you break it down for us. Does it actually slow down Decision Making and business processes . Well, it does require, so let me physically in a location. So a lot of decisions do get. Im delayed when someone is travelling, theyre not in the office because theyre not there to put their stamp on an important decision document. But how would that be different to actually physically being present to sign off on documents . Its similar is if youre waiting for someone to have a physical signature as well and do the same, its a paper based process. And i think that theres 2 types of things that tend to require hunk oh, what is internal Decision Making process . And the other is external matters such as contracts and filing of government forms. Do people think that its perhaps time to change . I think definitely people think its time to change. Well interestingly, the 1st electronic signature law in japan came about in the year 2001, so it stand nearly 20 years that japan has been trying to make this shift. But i think the coronavirus has really accelerated it, because so many people were working at home, trying to stay safe, both finding that they had to go into the office in order to stamp papers. And so that people realize this just doesnt make sense anymore. And speaking of the coronavirus christ, as opposed to doing this time goes into the last prime minister. Shinzo promised a review of the use of fungal stamps for bureaucracy. How far has to come . Oh, actually its, it has made some progress because the new prime minister, mr. Sudan recently stepped into that role has made it, oh, i already to be reforming administrative matters. And so there is now a minister in charge of that. And there is also someone in charge of digitisation specifically. And the new administrator for minister and neatly said sites on the hunk. Oh and is in the process of reviewing the government process. Is that required rather than the, eliminating the hard code fire. Interesting stuff returns called thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, aaron. And thats it for today, theres no more, no website to double dot com for the slush. Believe you know, with pictures from the moken, people also called sea gypsies in thailand. The photo of us has caused havoc across the world, but for thailands sea gypsies, it has brought welcome respite from the threats of moss tourism back tomorrow, with the full secrets lie behind these walls, discover new adventures in 360 degree and explore. Fascinating World Heritage sites. P. W. World heritage 360 getting up now. Kick off. Ghost town atmosphere means listless clay from the looks of guns and unrelentless fight the system known stump. Excitement to the final match to sneak up on g. W. Thousands of museums are shut. Can Virtual Reality replace them for now thats coming up here on arts and culture. And the worlds top award for sacred architecture goes to a church covered in 3 d. Ceramic tiles to reflect the sun and later on. Well 000000, so its american singer. Erika stuckey explains the connection between yodeling and the blooms last, not our last mop. First museums and galleries are on lockdown again in many places around the globe. Some fear they may never really open, but Something Else is happening here. Digital tours of museums and galleries are taking off, including at the National Museum of denmark, a Virtual Reality, or 3 d. Tours of galleries and museums are booming. Its often the only way visitors can access corona restricted exhibitions. The Danish Government has provided support to the National Gallery to put 40000 works in a virtual shelf. Were actually seeing increased interest in our digital resources because of the corona and all the shutdowns, because people are only able, sometimes to access our own culture from from, from their homes. Internationally acclaimed danish artist tudor hilton is getting a lot of online love from all over the world for her corona inspired exhibition. The virtual version of her gallery show has gone viral in china and used to work with the whole world, us audience. And this is actually adding the possibility for my paintings to also reach an International Audience all around the world. I think its very modern art fans and those who work in the industry are now able to follow the International Art scene even more closely innovative web sites. Like our land dot com, a platform where many of the worlds leading galleries present 3 d. Or r. Versions of current exhibitions. Thats a cute, convenient to use. To get an overview of whats going on in the contemporary art scene. All over the world. The worlds art treasures and the latest modern hunt are at your fingertips. And my colleague, adrian kennedy, is here. Adrian, lets talk a little bit more about these Virtual Museum tours. I know that youve been on if you can replace the real thing when it can be quite intriguing sheets of museums that you wouldnt normally go. So i think one of the problems is that some of the very interesting if you zoom into the picture is the definition isnt always fact could really say with our land dot com and the to the hilton thing that we saw there, the very good some of the museums are not using state of the art technology. For example, i was at the gate see and i couldnt read the info texts on the walls next. Now ive tried a few of these. One thing that struck me is, its kind of fun. The visit a museum youve never been so you can Wander Around some of these empty rooms on your own. But at some point, i felt that i wanted a little morientes. Maybe a guy view. Thats right, but some museums are responding to that. For example, the bar perini and paul stanley here, which houses the collection of soft 1000000000 hasso plattner. The museum is keen that in this case the exhibition remains accessible to the public during knocked to this end. How can sign up to talk through the rooms and given Background Information by explorers. Ok, so how would that work . Would i just book that on the museums website . Thats what you can always if you die, its not free. It costs 3 euros, but i think you can afford it. 2 they also got some free video shows and one i think people street because this is for you, how about yoga and you can join and for a quiet morning section of each new exhibition at the oh, that is actually really cool. Well maybe you know, maybe you and i could do that before the show sometime we could and sandra choosing for the future. That is actually ok. I would meet it. That is pretty cool. You got me there. Im sad to hear that about the getty that they need to get their, their act together in terms of better resolution, but will check out the barbarian adrian candidate. Thanks so much. Thank you. Now, lets move to architecture. Can buildings elevate the human soul . Can they bring people closer to the divine . Thats the challenge for architects who design houses of worship. Now every 4 years saw the gives out the International Prize for sacred architecture. And this time with more than 100. 00 projects in the running from 33. 00 countries. The winner is this asymmetrical Catholic Church in the Little German town of point. Just outside munich. A striking structure rising up from among apartment buildings. A Catholic Church. Even from the far, it seems to beckon a colleague told me that he was on a play into Munich Airport when he saw something glittering brightly down below on the ground. And it wasnt fact the church here is what you feel on the other one to sort of articulation control. The mantle of light architect acts of full alpha and his late colleague under the house make plant the facade of 15003. 00 dimensional ceramic tiles. Each one, a miniature of the churches for him and i preach, tile is rotated and flipped and grouped according to a specific pattern to result in the desired effect. And that includes this multiple refraction of light. Pressure of interest to the church has one prize after prize, including germanys top architecture award, the course in meeker. The interior features solid natural stone and white light. The altar is that i level with the parishioners flanked by 3 large openings meant to symbolize the holy trinity. But im here and there arent a lot of colors here, but we have above all, various nuances of white lies. And then with the Natural Light of the sun, there is a play of colors. So in that way, this is really a church that truly allows you to sense the light of heaven with cliff that him a kind of light as the formative force in other sacred buildings by and they asked mecca and his team, the mortuary chapel in the theme is a comforting room of passage. Nikolaus church annoyed which one the 2011 german award for the light design in a public building. They have in common a meditative reduction to the bare essential point that always i think that in this era of constant sensory overload, people are again looking for spaces of peace and quiet. But faith is also a matter of tradition. And the parishioners had to adjust to some elements of the church, like nature as murals, rather than saints. And apostles gradually accepted the church as their own won over by its forward thinking openness, its unifying, and democratic approach. Now yodeling. As an art form, many people dont fully appreciate to be fair, it can sound kind of like a teenage boy whose voice is cracking. But there are some yodelers who are just plain impressive like singer erika who won the swiss culture ministrys top music award. This year. Strickly was born and San Francisco moved to switzerland as a girl. Her unique style brings jazz and blues to the swiss alps. For is a coach, tookie. Yodeling is all about a zest for life and expressing doubt in clear she finds inspiration in the echo of the alps minus me and its like pingpong. I have to just see a vice behind me. And obviously it reverberates quite differently than if i were in texas, dost, has climbed the glacier co