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Bangkok—One of the heroes who figured in a story that gripped the whole world in June 2018 has succumbed to an illness he contracted during the operation that saw twelve boys and their football coach rescued after being trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand for more than ten days. Thai navy SEAL Petty Officer […]

The long-awaited 2019 KBS Song Festival has finally arrived. KBS has teased three reasons why viewers should tune-in to the annual year-end music show ahead of tonight’s live broadcast. Reason 1: Star-studded lineup of performers and MCs. A lineup of 24 groups and over 150 K-pop stars are appearing on KBS’s Song Festival including SEVENTEEN, […]

President Donald Trump may be in politics now but long before he took up residence in the White House, he appeared in Home Alone 2, a moment on the big screen he described as an ‘honour’. On Tuesday, while Trump was speaking with the deployed members of the military, one of them asked him about […]

China denied on Friday that detained Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip was secretly tried and sentenced to death, after UN experts demanded answers from Beijing. The foreign ministry said former Xinjiang University president Tiyip’s case was still ongoing and his rights had been “protected in accordance with the law”. Tiyip was “suspected of corruption and bribery,” […]

A massive locust invasion has destroyed thousands of hectares of crops in northwest India, authorities said, with some experts on Friday terming it the worst such attack in 25 years. While officials have attempted to tackle the swarm with pesticides, farmers have deployed drums to drive away the insects, with videos showing schoolgirls banging on steel […]

European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has expressed “serious concern” over whether the bloc could conclude a  post-Brexit trade deal with Britain within the 2020 deadline. Britain is due to leave the European Union on January 31, but will remain in a transitional arrangement until the end of next year while negotiators debate future […]

An earthquake struck Iran on Friday less than 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the country’s only nuclear power plant, monitors said. There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage. The US Geological Survey said the 5.1 magnitude quake struck 44 kilometres (27 miles) from the southwestern city of Borazjan and at a depth […]

by Jalees ANDRABI From Netflix to Hitler, protesters are tapping pop culture and history as they vent their anger against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new citizenship law — and with deft use of India’s beloved acronyms. The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) eases naturalisation for persecuted religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, but not if […]

The daughter of Bruce Lee is not happy a Chinese fast-food chain is using an image of the late martial arts film star without permission. Shannon Lee is now suing them. The restaurant chain Kungfu Catering Management is accused by Shannon Lee’s Bruce Lee Enterprises for using her father’s image for the past 15 years in a […]

2019 has been quite a year, from protests erupting in various parts of the world, to a Swedish teen taking centre-stage on climate change, to the shocking suicides of K-pop stars, and more. TISG takes a look back at some of the events that caught the eyes of the world in the last 12 months. Hong […]

Fans of ‘Keeping Up With the Kardashians’ are in for a treat as it is the annual Kardashian-Jenner Christmas Eve party! To celebrate the wonderful time of the year, the famous family is seen in uber glamourous holiday fashions such as twinning looks. Kylie Jenner and her 1 and 1/2-year-old daughter Stormi Webster wore matching […]

Every year during Christmas time, for the past25 years, Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas is You is aired. And Mariah Carey is giving fans exactly what they wanted with the release of a new music video to go with the festive hit. On Sunday, December 22, in a special behind-the-scenes promotion for the […]

Popstar Miley Cyrus is undoubtedly one of the most popular artists of her generation but the singer gets the biggest headlines for her personal life rather than for her music. She made her career partially on the pureness of her singing voice and also the somehow lewd and controversial way her persona has developed. Cyrus […]

It is no secret that Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West gives out super extravagant gifts to their children. For her mother’s birthday, Kardashian West spent thousands of dollars to rent out her childhood home. She also rented every single luxury vehicle that her parents ever owned. This Christmas, Kardashian West seems to have outdone […]

Hong Kong endured a third straight day of political unrest over the Christmas period Thursday as police and pro-democracy protesters clashed inside shopping malls. Protesters spent the afternoon on Thursday marching through multiple malls chanting anti-government and anti-police slogans. Riot police swooped on dozens of black-clad protesters in one mall in Tai Po district using […]