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Singapore—Filmmaker, film critic and writer Sandi Tan has marked another career coup in landing the cover story for this year’s Vanity Fair’s Oscar edition, wherein she interviewed Bong Joon Ho, the director of Parasite, on his groundbreaking film. Ms Tan’s story, “Parasite Power: Director Bong Joon Ho on His Edgy Oscar Contender” was published in the […]

The Korean TV drama series Crash Landing On You, starring Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin, is currently the country’s hottest show. There were reports on Monday (Jan 27) that Son was rushed to the emergency department at the hospital while filming the series. The cause of her hospitalisation was  fatigue. MSteam Entertainment later issued a statement […]

Manila — Singapore-born Angeline Tham is a hero to thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of Filipino commuters. Unfortunately, with some leaders, she is not nearly as popular, with one Philippine senator even seeking to deport the young mother of one due to controversy over a motorcycle ride-sharing business the entrepreneur runs in the country. […]

Artists shone during the Grammy awards on Sunday but there was a sad undertone to the ceremony with news of the tragic death earlier in the day of basketball star Kobe Bryant. The ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, where Byrant once led the LA Lakers to multiple championships, but many […]

Singapore—Concerns over the novel coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, a city in Hubei, central China, continue to mount as more cases of the infection are confirmed around the world. To date, over 2,740 people have been infected by the virus, with a death toll of 82. The majority of those infected by the virus live […]

by Javier TOVAR Hundreds of fans gathered Sunday outside the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles to pay tribute to NBA superstar Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter crash that stunned the sports world and beyond. “This dude is everything to me man. It makes no sense,” said Bobby Jimenez, sobbing as he stood outside […]

A Thai park official implicated in the alleged killing of an environmental activist will not face prosecution for murder due to “insufficient evidence”, the attorney general’s office announced Monday — a move condemned by rights groups decrying impunity for enforced disappearances. Ethnic Karen leader Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen — known as Billy — vanished in […]

A woman died while taking part in a cake-eating competition to celebrate Australia Day, local media reported Monday. Paramedics were called to a pub in the state of Queensland on Sunday afternoon after a woman was involved in a “medical incident”. Public broadcaster ABC reported the 60-year-old had a seizure after she “shovelled a lamington […]

France will fly home its citizens who wish to leave the Chinese city of Wuhan at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened thousands and killed 81, the government announced. The repatriation, via a direct flight to France, will be planned for the middle of this week, with Chinese permission, under the supervision […]

by Leo RAMIREZ China on Monday extended its biggest national holiday to buy time in the fight against a viral epidemic and neighbouring Mongolia closed its border, after the death toll spiked to 81 despite unprecedented quarantine measures. In a sign of the mounting official concern, Premier Li Keqiang visited ground-zero to oversee containment efforts […]

Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf has won in the Young Adult/High School Literature Category of the 2019 Freeman Book Awards. The awards are initiated by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at Columbia University. They are focused on writing by children and young adults that boosts  understanding of East and South-east Asia. Hanna, 34, who was interviewed […]

Just after divorcing from Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus dated Kaitlynn Carter and then moved to Cody Simpson. It has been a couple of months but Cyrus and Simpson are going strong. The relationship is moving fast but are they ready to take it to the next level and have babies? In August last year, Cyrus […]

Reality star Kourtney Kardashian, who said in 2018 that she had frozen her eggs for the possibility of a fourth child, recently reunited with ex Younes Bendjima and shared about a pregnancy. The mother of three children with former partner Scott Disick shared in a 2018 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians that she was […]

Pop singer Justin Bieber wed his sweetheart Hailey Baldwin two years ago and in making an effort to have a good marriage, he has turned to a Christian self-help book that gives advice on how to keep a marriage ‘affair-proof’. The 25-year-old Yummy singer shared on his Instagram stories on January 22, his current reading […]

Sharifah Rose, an influencer and model came under fire recently for removing her headscarf briefly while on holiday in Phuket, Thailand. She was photographed without her headscarf and the photo was uploaded on Instagram. Netizens bashed the influencer online when she was spotted without the religious headscarf while on the beach with her friends and […]