Hong Kong (CNN) — A Malaysian comedian has been banned from China’s Twitter-like social media platform, days after he published clips from a live show predicting his skits about Beijing’s heavily ...

Nigel Ng’s viral comedy sketches, featuring his middle-aged Malaysian “uncle” alter-ego, have resonated with fans both in Asia and the West. Perhaps the most unexpectedly famous internet personality ...

“Uncle Roger good comrades,” he quipped. “Don’t make him disappear please.” It’s not the first time Ng, who was born in Kuala Lumpur and is now based in Britain, has had a brush with China’s often ...