#Art

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 […]

by Jan HENNOP Five years ago on Wednesday, Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was blasted out of the sky over war-torn eastern Ukraine with the loss of all 298 people on board. The shooting down of the Boeing 777 travelling from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has prompted sanctions against Russia, a series of international investigations and […]

Victoria’s Secret model Ming Xi has married Mario Ho Yau-kwan, the youngest son of Macau casino tycoon Stanley Ho Hung-sun after a two-month engagement. The couple jointly posted photos on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, teasing each other with compliments about the other’s “good taste” in partners. Ho and his mother, Angela Leong On-kei confirmed that […]

Famous singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran recently revealed that he got married to fiancée Cherry Seaborn during an interview with iHeartRadio. The couple went to high school together in their hometown in Suffolk. Sheeran talked about the lyrics of his song Remember My Name, a collaboration with Eminem and 50 Cent. The words “my wife” was mentioned […]

MEDAN — The once restive province of Aceh is planning to make it legal for men to have up to four wives but activists fear the law would normalise extramarital affairs. Aceh is the state where LGBT practitioners get lashed in public and women are whipped if caught for extra marital affairs. The attempt to […]

US President Donald Trump on Sunday told unnamed Democratic Congresswomen to “go back” where they came from, prompting senior members of the party to brand him a “racist” and a xenophobe. It is the latest controversial comment by Trump, who last year reportedly referred to countries in Africa as “shithole” nations, and who has spoken of […]

Singapore – Ex Mediacorp actress Jesseca Liu has turned to social media on July 11 (Thursday) in an appeal to get her missing MacBook Air. In her post, the Malaysian actress explained that she accidentally left her laptop on her car roof at the parking at Block 650 at Jalan Tenaga, where she visited a […]

Britain’s ambassador to Washington believed US President Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal because it was associated with his predecessor Barack Obama, according to leaked documents published Saturday. “The administration is set upon an act of diplomatic vandalism, seemingly for ideological and personality reasons — it was Obama’s deal,” ambassador Kim Darroch […]

Former Manchester United football star David Beckham and ex-Spice Girls member Victoria Beckham are celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary, having gotten married in 1999 at Luttrellstown Castle in Ireland. The couple, together with their sons Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo shared social media posts to commemorate the occasion. The Sun reported, “For the ceremony, the happy […]

by Joe STENSON In a Belfast alleyway, a poignant graffiti mural makes a promise to Northern Ireland’s LGBT youth: “It won’t always be like this. It’s going to get better.” The words are a quote from Lyra McKee — a young gay journalist shot dead by dissident republicans during clashes with police in April. McKee’s […]

by Kevin TRUBLET Facebook’s planned virtual unit Libra, already under heavy attack from US President Donald Trump and global regulators, faces scepticism among the wider cryptocurrency community as well. One theme — besides Brexit — dominated discussion among the movers and shakers from London’s financial technology or FinTech industry as gathered for their annual get-together: the […]

Forbes just announced its annual list of the world’s highest paid celebrities and Taylor Swift made it to the top. The American pop-star earns an estimated pre-tax income of USD185 million (SGD251 million). Swift’s income can be credited to her 2018 Reputation tour and album. Next up on the list is social media and reality […]

Hong Kong superstar Sammi Cheng invited her husband, Andy Hui to perform in her concert. This move was an attempt at a comeback for Hui after the controversial scandal where a video of him and actress Jacqueline Wong showed them making out in a taxi. It has been three months since Hui and Wong were […]