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Sticking samurai swords, steak knives and even the sharpened handles of badminton racquets through their cheeks, devotees of Thailand’s vegetarian festival go all out during an annual event that is both gleeful and gory. Held on the tourist island of Phuket, the nine-day Taoist “Nine Emperor Gods” festival was in full swing Thursday after kicking […]

India’s 15-year-old women’s cricket sensation Shafali Verma had to get her hair cut like a boy so that she could get into the local academy to train, her father told AFP. Now India’s cricket establishment is relying on Verma, who made her Twenty20 debut for the national team against South Africa last month and will soon […]

At the recent premiere of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, Angelina Jolie was accompanied by five of her six children but one important person was missing. The 44-year-old Hollywood actress dropped off her eldest son Maddox at university in South Korea back in August where the 18-year-old is studying biochemistry at Seoul’s Yonsei University. The mother […]

An Indonesian MP brought his three wives to his inauguration at Parliament or House of Representatives in Jakarta, starting a frenzy on social media as well as in the local media. The MP was elected in East Java where his life as a polygamous husband was already well documented and did not have any negative impact on election chances. The […]

Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin got married again on 30 Sept in South Carolina and here is a timeline of their romance. Justin Bieber, 25 and Hailey Baldwin, 22 got married in what is set to be one of the most gorgeous ceremonies of the year. Although the couple have been inseparable in recent years, […]

A total of 575 members of the Indonesian Parliament elected for the 2019-2024 period, were inaugurated yesterday October 1, 2019 and they wore expensive locally designed traditional clothes for the occasion. Fourteen of them were local artists, among them internationally renowned singers Mulan Jameela and Krisdayanti. One of the artists, Mulan Jameela wore a traditional but modified outfit from the Bugis, Makssaree tribe. She […]

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson does not take anything for granted, often taking to social media to express the gratitude he feels for the career opportunities he had. View this post on Instagram #HobbsAndShaw #FastAndFurious #UniverseExpansion @sevenbucksprod A post shared by therock (@therock) on Sep 27, 2019 at 10:40am PDT Recently in a new IGTV post, […]

Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest thanks to petrodollars, is scaling back plans to dump stakes in oil and gas companies, the government has revealed. Originally, the fund — which manages more than $1 trillion in assets — had envisaged pulling out of 134 companies involved in oil and gas exploration and production. Norway […]

Pictures by Yury Kadobnov. Video by Ivana Jurisa by Anna MALPAS In cropped jeans and a cream sweatshirt, Alina Muzychenko would easily blend into a central Moscow crowd. But her bright pink socks are quietly subversive — patterned with a drawing of riot police holding hands. The 34-year-old runs a design label with her husband […]

by Jerome TAYLOR / Yan ZHAO Flash-mob rallies broke out in Hong Kong on Wednesday as anger mounted over police shooting a teenage protester who attacked officers in a dramatic escalation of the violent unrest that has engulfed the territory for months. A large crowd of demonstrators, including office workers in shirts and suits, mustered […]

MBLAQ’s G.O and Choi Ye Seul officially got married on 28 Sept. The wedding was a private, small-scale ceremony with about 70 guests according to the couple’s wishes. Mir, a fellow MBLAQ member officiated the ceremony with G.O. G.O shared a photo of the couple in their wedding attire around noon that day with the […]

Police in Indonesia uncovered a gruesome murder after they found a suicide note on a 42-year-old widower. The police said people alerted them to the scene where they found a man who apparently committed suicide. The man, Wayan Sutarsa was found by passerby’s who thought he was in a state of seizure. Since the man refused assistance, the passerby alerted […]

Recently Hong Kong actor Kenneth Ma has been in the news but attention on his love life is not what the TVB actor wants. The 45-year-old shared with The Straits Times in Mandarin,”I will leave relationship matters to fate, I won’t force it. Now, I’m just hard at work filming and making money.” “Housing in […]

SINGAPORE—Yesterday (Sept. 30), Swedish furniture company Ikea put out a press release recalling its MATVRÅ children’s bib packs because of a possible choking hazard. In its official press release, entitled “IKEA recalls the children’s bib MATVRÅ, Blue/Red 2-pack, due to a choking hazard”, Ikea noted that it had received two separate reports of the buttons […]

South Korean boy bands Super Junior and TVXQ will be reminiscing about their friendship in the upcoming travel documentary Analog Trip. It will feature TVXQ’s Yunho and Changmin as well as Super Junior’s Leeteuk, Shindong, Eunhyuk and Donghae as they travel through Indonesia with just their backpacks. The show offers an intimate look into the […]