Category: Society
Tony Leung says no soured ties with Wong Kar-wai
For a director and actor who have worked together for about two decades, there did not seem to be much chemistry between Wong Kar-wai and Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai [...]
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Lee trained hard for revived role in ‘GI Joe’ film
Lee Byung-hun says he had to train hard to do justice to his character in “G.I. Joe: Retaliation.” The upcoming sequel to “G.I. Joe: The Rise of [...]
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Court in native Taiwan snubs Obama gown designer
Judges in his native Taiwan seem unimpressed that Jason Wu has designed two inaugural gowns for US first lady Michelle Obama. Taiwan’s Intellectual Property Court ruled [...]
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Malaysia sex bloggers dish out sex tips in comeback
Former National University of Singapore law scholar Alvin Tan Jye Yee and his girlfriend Vivian Lee are back in the public eye. This time, though, they are talking about sex [...]
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Vietnam to produce own poison for executions
Vietnam says it is to begin producing home-grown poisons to be used in the execution of prisoners. The move comes after overseas producers refused to export the drugs which [...]
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Philippines floods kill seven, injure six
Manila: Seven people were killed, six injured, and three more went missing in floods due to a low pressure area 300 kilometres southeast of general Santos in southern [...]
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British woman ‘devastated’ after Bali death sentence
British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford is “devastated” and withdrawn after being sentenced to death for drug smuggling on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, her [...]
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14 dead, 33 hurt in Burma bus crash: police
Fourteen people were killed and 33 injured Wednesday when a passenger bus plunged off the side of a mountain in western Myanmar, police said. The vehicle was travelling from [...]
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Burma’s Suu Kyi to reveal favourite records
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will reveal her favourite records in the BBC radio show “Desert Island Discs” to be aired on Sunday, it was revealed on [...]
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School dropout convicted of money laundering in HK
A 22-year-old Chinese man who had dropped out of school and worked as a delivery man was convicted of laundering HK$13 billion ($1.68 billion) through a Hong Kong bank over [...]
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British grandmother gets death for drugs in Indonesia
A 56-year-old British grandmother was sentenced to death Tuesday for smuggling cocaine into the Indonesian island of Bali, in a shock verdict after prosecutors recommended 15 [...]
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Amy Chen is Miss Asia 2012
Amy Chen, a 26-year-old student with a Masters Degree who represented Hong Kong and Macau emerged the winner of Miss Asia 2012. According to Jayne Stars, on 21 January, Amy [...]
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Pope meets Vietnam Communist Party chief
Pope Benedict XVI received the secretary general of Vietnam’s Communist Party on Tuesday in an unusual gesture marking a desire for “fruitful collaboration” [...]
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Girl aged 8 killed in quake off Indonesia, 15 injured
A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia’s Aceh province Tuesday, killing an eight-year-old girl and leaving 15 people injured, officials said. The quake struck [...]
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California man faces subversion trial in Vietnam
Nguyen Quoc Quan would be among the 28,000 Sacramentans marching to honor Dr Martin Luther King Jr. this morning if he weren’t in a Vietnamese prison for practicing [...]
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