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From being just a Korean phenomenon K-pop is fast becoming a worldwide favourite with a globalized membership in its fraternity. Making history, 18-year-old Sriya Lenka became the first ever K-pop artist from India recently. Lenka who hails from Odisha will join the Korean pop band Blackswan together with Brazilian Gabriela Dalcin. The announcement was made […]

By Vivian LIN Midday queues snake out to the street in an upmarket Shanghai neighbourhood, but it’s not lunch at the city’s hottest restaurant that people are lining up for — it’s cosmetic “micro-procedures”, which are surging in popularity in China. The “lunchtime facelift” and other “medical aesthetics” procedures are booming as a new generation […]

By Jing Xuan TENG The distressing case of a pregnant Chinese woman miscarrying after a strict lockdown delayed her access to medical treatment has reignited debate over the limits of China’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19.The country where the coronavirus was first detected in 2019 is now among the last places still hewing to “zero Covid”, […]

    Singapore — Singaporean celeb Oon Shu An, believe it or not, is not only a Tiger baby, but also a Lion baby! She took to both Facebook & Instagram a couple of days back to speak about how being born a girl with these two east & west zodiac signs combo in one […]

    Among the many other home-based and online bakers who launched their businesses during the pandemic, celebrities such as Rebecca Lim and Fann Wong have also taken advantage of the internet to sell their baked goods. In a nod to the trend, content creator and social media influencer Nicole Choo is giving it a […]

By Hillary ORINDE China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday rejected suggestions that Beijing was luring African countries into debt traps by offering them massive loans, dismissing the idea as a “narrative” pushed by opponents to poverty reduction.Wang, speaking ahead of touring Beijing-funded infrastructure projects in Kenya, said China’s considerable lending to Africa was “mutually […]

Russia — Some kids are such early bloomers that it is astonishing to see them perform some tasks like a pro. It is always delightful to watch videos of such precocious kids. Like this 4-year-old boy from Russia’s Moscow whose skateboarding skills will leave you breathless. The videos of the boy are regularly posted on […]

    Seoul — It was reported on Dec 24 last year that BTS member Suga tested positive for COVID-19. Two other members of BTS, RM and Jin also contracted the virus around the same period. RM, Jin and Suga were diagnosed with the virus after their return to South Korea following BTS’s first pandemic-era […]

    Singapore — Back on Dec 28, 2021 Singaporean TV host and actor Allan Wu shared on Instagram that he had contracted COVID-19. The 49-year-old is best known for hosting five seasons of The Amazing Race Asia. He was in Los Angeles during the winter holiday period when he tested positive for the virus. Wu […]

    Seoul – What a way to start the new year!  Jungkook’s Facebook page reveals that BTS’ youngest member has broken the world record for the fastest Instagram post to reach a million likes. Jungkook managed it in just two minutes. His first Instagram post in 2022 showed the star in a beach sunset […]

South Korean boy band BTS’s latest music video just hit 100 million YouTube views. The music video for Live Goes On, the title track off of the group’s new album BE surpassed the 100 million view mark around 2PM KST according to YouTube. This video is BTS’s 27th video to reach the milestone view count. Currently, the milestones achieved […]

By Glenn CHAPMAN Fraud convictions this week for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will send a chill through Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, insiders say, now they know there is the threat of jail for airy promises that come to nothing.But with billions of dollars washing around the tech industry in search of the next big thing, the […]

South Korean actor Kim Seon-ho is all ready to make a comeback. Several months after being involved in a controversy with his former partner. Kim is ready to return to acting. The actor was in hot soup about eight months ago as he was accused of forcing his ex-girlfriend to have an abortion. The accusation […]

Japanese carmaker Toyota led US automobile sales in 2021, according to figures released Tuesday, overtaking General Motors for the first time as a shortage of semiconductors roils the car industry. The shift atop the rankings came after a year in which assembly lines were plagued by scarcity of the crucial computer chips, resulting in steep […]

China Tuesday said it will continue to “modernise” its nuclear arsenal and called on the United States and Russia to reduce their stockpiles a day after global powers pledged to prevent such weapons spreading. In a rare joint statement setting aside rising West-East tensions, the United States, China, Russia, Britain and France reaffirmed their goal […]