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Singapore — Whenever a countryman makes it big abroad, Singaporeans are always proud of their fellow men’s achievements. Lim Kay Siu, 61 is one example of a Singaporean who has made it big in Hollywood. Since the 80s, he has been acting in TV and films. He also starred in a handful of Asian films. […]

By Thomas URBAIN The Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing’s announcement that it will delist its shares from the New York Stock Exchange marks the end of a cushy relationship between Wall Street and Chinese tech giants, who are under siege from authorities in Beijing and regulators in America.Only five months transpired between Didi’s going public […]

President Joe Biden returned from Europe Wednesday with a wake-up call for feuding Democrats holding up his sweeping domestic reforms in Congress — after a humiliating state election defeat that many blamed on inertia and infighting among the party’s lawmakers. “I do know that people want us to get things done,” he told reporters asking […]

The expansion of a Zara clothing store in France was blocked over a probe into whether its parent company Inditex benefits from the use of forced labour of Uyghurs in China, officials said Monday. Zara France wanted to double the surface area of its shop in the centre of the southern city of Bordeaux, but […]

The Wuhan Marathon, which had been due to take place Sunday, has been postponed at short notice as worries increase over a coronavirus resurgence in China ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. China reported 26 new domestic Covid-19 cases on Sunday, in an outbreak that has become latest test of the country’s zero-tolerance approach […]

China vowed Friday to punish “diehard” Taiwan politicians, saying it would ban several from visiting the mainland, as tensions between Beijing and Taipei spiked to their highest level in years. China claims Taiwan as its territory — to be seized one day, by force if necessary — and has intensified efforts in recent years to […]

A Chinese intelligence officer was convicted in US federal court Friday of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from US and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said. Xu Yanjun, an official in the Jiangsu province foreign intelligence office of the Ministry of State Security, was found guilty in the Cincinnati […]

By Patrick BAERT Chinese President Xi Jinping, the uncontested leader of the world’s most populous nation, heads a pivotal plenary of the ruling party’s top figures next week that will set the tone for his bid for long-term rule.From Monday to Thursday, some 400 members of the Communist Party’s all-powerful Central Committee gather in Beijing […]

    During an interview with Elle, Ratajkowski recalled what it felt like when she found out that she was going to be having a baby boy with her husband Sebastian Bear-McClard. In March, Ratajkowski and Bear-McClard welcomed their son, Sylvester. “I wanted a daughter initially, but when I found out I was having a […]

    Taipei — Taiwanese singer Annie Yi, 53, wants to break her 2020 record. Not a music record, you understand, but  a shopping record. On a day that itself is holds the record – and by quite a margin – for the largest online shopping day in the world, While most people scramble to […]

    Singapore — Last September, Mdada was just a livestreaming sales platform that debuted to very little fanfare. It was started by celebrity hairstylist Addy Lee, actor-host Pornsak and former Mediacorp actress Michelle Chia. Over the past year, the company has grown and according to a CNBC article on Nov 1, the platform commands […]

American Heather Mack, convicted as a pregnant teenager of helping to kill her mother at a luxury hotel in Bali, was deported Tuesday from Indonesia along with her now six-year-old daughter, immigration officials said. Mack, 25, was flown back to the United States after being released last week from a Bali prison nearly three years […]

Toyota urged Washington on Tuesday not to “play politics” with environmental issues by offering tax credits for US-made electric vehicles, joining a chorus of foreign opposition to the issue. President Joe Biden’s focus on helping blue-collar American workers led to a proposal in his Build Back Better legislation to offer $4,500 in tax credits for […]

US President Joe Biden on Tuesday accused China and Russia of failing to show leadership on climate change in blistering criticism of their leaders for not attending the COP26 summit in Glasgow. Speaking at the UN summit aimed at forging an ambitious new climate agreement, Biden called his own presence and promises proof that “America […]

    London — Aquaman star Jason Momoa, who is filming the sequel in Britain has been tested positive for COVID-19. British tabloid The Sun reported on Wednesday (Oct 27) that Momoa was on the Hertfordshire set of Aquaman And The Lost Kingdom, where the cast and crew were tested regularly. An anonymous insider told the […]