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by Yan ZHAO and Jasmine LEUNG Tens of thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong on Saturday defied a ban on rallying, the arrests of leading activists and rising threats from China, to take to the streets for a 13th straight weekend. Police had banned the demonstration on security grounds, then organisers had cancelled it, […]

by Anup Sharma Security was tightened Friday in the Indian state of Assam for the release of a citizens’ list that could potentially lead to several million people becoming stateless, most of them Muslims, in a process the government wants to replicate nationwide. Those left off the National Register of Citizens (NRC), due to be […]

by Jordi Miro, with Sebastian Smith in Washington President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday that Europe has “nothing to teach” Brazil about preserving the environment, as the country aligns itself with the United States over fires raging in the Amazon rainforest. The far-right leader’s comments come as the latest official data show thousands of new fires […]

South Korean boy group BTS’ Jungkook is the most searched K-Pop idol on Google based on Global Google searches with an index score of 10.43 per cent for the 1st to 2nd quarter of 2019, becoming the most popular K-Pop idol worldwide right now. The data was collected by global measurements and data analytics company […]

Taiwanese actress Ady An’s husband knows how to win her heart. Last September during her 38th birthday Levo Chan bought her a diamond necklace that costs HK$15 million (SGD$2.7 million) Chan who is the chief executive of Tak Chun Group which owns and operates gaming clubs in hotels has bought her four villas in Macau that […]

Is there trouble in paradise for celebrity couple Faye Wong and Nicholas Tse? The rumour mill started after each of them celebrated their respective birthdays separately. Queen of Cantopop Wong was nowhere in sight during now turned TV chef Tse’s 39th birthday on 29 Aug, having chosen to accompany her daughter with ex-husband Li Yapeng […]

Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall married in 2005, almost 35 years after the couple first met. People have questioned why the future King chose the Duchess over Princess Diana, his first wife and mother of his children. Netizen Basil Fondu believes that Charles and Camilla fell in love in the 1970’s and […]

Gigi Hadid and Tyler Cameron went to the MTV VMA afterparties together after multiple sleepovers and dates. An insider told HollywoodLife that the couple are avoiding ‘labels’. The pair made a splash on Monday, 26 Aug when they hit the ultra-exclusive MTV VMAs after parties together but they didn’t attend the actual show as a […]

AFP is republishing this feature which has been selected by the agency’s chief editors as one of the best of the week. by Deborah COLE A tour group handpicked by the far-right party Alternative for Germany touched off a scandal last summer while visiting the former Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen north of Berlin. A few […]

Leading Hong Kong democracy activist Joshua Wong was arrested Friday, his party said, a day ahead of a planned rally in the city that has been banned by police. His arrest came just hours after the reported detention at Hong Kong’s airport of a vocal independence campaigner, and as Beijing continues to pile pressure on […]

Reality star and model Kylie Jenner recently shared about her one-year-old daughter Stormi and how she is growing up so fast in a red carpet interview at the premiere of her boyfriend Travis Scott’s Netflix documentary Travis Scott: Look Mom I Can Fly on Aug 27. The 22-year-old sounded like a proud mum when she […]

South Korean singer Lee Jong Hyun is withdrawing from the band CNBLUE. After a further controversy over his direct messages to a YouTuber on 28 Aug, Lee Jong Hyun’s agency FNC Entertainment conveyed his following statement: Hello. This is Lee Jong Hyun. I once again apologize to the people I’ve hurt through my inappropriate words […]

by Marlowe HOOD with Patrick GALEY The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilising Earth’s marine environment is brought to heel, warns a draft UN report obtained by AFP. Destructive changes already set in motion could see a steady decline in fish […]

Miley Cyrus performed her latest single Slide Away for the first time at the 2019 MTV VMAs. The song is widely speculated to address the end of Cyrus’ 10-year relationship with Liam Hemsworth. The couple announced their separation earlier this month, less than a year after getting married. The tear-jerking song is said to be […]

by Elaine YU / Emma CLARK China sent fresh troops to Hong Kong Thursday as part of a “routine” garrison rotation, as the financial hub braced for a new round of violent protests after police refused permission for a mass rally at the weekend. Hong Kong has been mired in over three months of political […]