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Seoul, Korea – On July 17 (Wednesday), former CEO and chief producer of YG Entertainment, Yang Hyun-suk was booked on allegations that he arranged prostitution services for his foreign investors. South Korea’s K-pop entertainment industry has been recently hit with numerous sex and drug scandals involving famous artists such as Seungri from Big Bang and […]

Producer Joey McFarland of “The Wolf of Wall Street” is returning to the Malaysian government millions of dollars in gifts and company funding allegedly given by Low Taek Jho in the wake of a money laundering scandal involving his movie production company Red Granite Pictures. The items include a vintage French “King Kong” poster, a […]

Hit teen series Gossip Girl is being rebooted for a new generation and it is set eight years after the original series ended. Ten one-hour episodes are slated for HBO Max, an upcoming streaming service from WarnerMedia. News on the cast and release date have yet to be announced. The original series starring Blake Lively […]

Rumour has it that Etta Ng, love child of Hong Kong action legend Jackie Chan and her wife Andi Autumn have broken up. Netizens are speculating about the relationship after Ng, 19, removed all the photos of her and Autumn on Ng’s Instagram. Sin Chew Daily reported that 31-year-old Autumn has removed all images on […]

by Amir Havasi with Jerome Cartillier in Washington Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Friday they had seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz for breaking “international maritime rules” as tensions mount in the highly sensitive waterway. Britain however said Iran had seized two ships in the Gulf, with Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warning of […]

Cambodia will send back 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste found in shipping containers to the US and Canada, an official said Wednesday, as Southeast Asian countries revolt against an onslaught of rubbish shipments. China‘s decision to ban foreign plastic waste imports last year threw global recycling into chaos, leaving developed nations struggling to find countries […]

by Quentin TYBERGHIEN   Details emerged Friday of the horrifying blaze that ripped through a Japanese anime firm, killing dozens including people who tried in vain to reach the roof, but the motive for the suspected arson remained unclear. Eyewitnesses described a fire that was like “looking at hell,” after a man apparently doused the […]

Popular Russia-based application FaceApp, which allows users to change their appearance to look older or younger, came under fire in the United States Wednesday, with one senator urging an FBI investigation. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the FBI and the FTC, the US consumer protection body, to “look into the national security & […]

George RR Martin, author of Game of Thrones has announced whether the polarising finale to the TV show will affect the books. The book series A Song of Ice and Fire is the inspiration for the Game of Thrones TV show which ended in May. Several years ago the show caught up with the books […]

Rumours have been swirling around about Bond 25, the upcoming instalment to the 55-year-old James Bond franchise. The latest one being that the role of 007 would be played by Captain Marvel’s Lashana Lynch. Based on a report by Daily Mail, in director Cary Fukunaga’s 2020 film, Lynch becomes 007 after Daniel Craig’s James Bond […]

by Jerome CARTILLIER The US House of Representatives formally condemned Donald Trump on Tuesday for xenophobic attacks on four minority Democratic lawmakers and hostile language targeting immigrants, as the president pushed back at accusations of racism. Top Republican leaders rallied around Trump, but four members of the president’s party voted with the 235 Democrats to […]

North Korea on Tuesday warned that US-South Korea military drills to be held next month “will affect” proposed working-level nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. It was the first statement from Pyongyang on the issue since US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed at an impromptu meeting in the Demilitarized Zone […]

by Andrew MARSZAL “Game of Thrones” and Netflix are tipped by TV industry watchers to dominate Tuesday’s Emmy nominations as Hollywood gears up for awards season. The Television Academy’s 24,000 members sifted through a record number of entries for this year’s Emmys, the small-screen equivalent of the Oscars. After nominations are announced final-round voting will […]

Ushar Daniele is a journalist turned producer that recently worked together with a Singaporean production house on a wildlife documentary. The Dark Web documentary series on Channel NewsAsia explores threats to wildlife in the Malaysian episode ‘Wildlife Clickbait.’ The episode ‘Wildlife Clickbait’ is specific to Malaysia and covers all crime that happens on social media […]

Anti-government protesters who fought police inside a Hong Kong shopping mall were “rioters”, the finance hub’s pro-Beijing leader said Monday, as she threw her support behind the city’s beleaguered police force following another weekend of clashes. Hong Kong’s ongoing political crisis deepened further on Sunday as riot police and protesters fought running battles inside a […]