Anne Heung Talks about the Miss Hong Kong Baggage
She praises Crystal Fung for establishing her own image.
Xu Zheng “Lost in Russia” Streams Online for Free After Getting Pulled from Theaters
Due to the coronavirus, LNY movies were pulled from theaters. Xu Zheng decides to release his film for free online.
Jinny Ng Wants a Boob Job in the Future
Jinny Ng has always thought about augmenting her breasts.
Roxanne Tong Was Scared She Wouldn’t Have Acting Opportunities
She shares two low points in her career.
Doctors warn China coronavirus carriers may show no symptoms of illness
New research on the Wuhan coronavirus has found the virus may be present in the lungs of individuals with no obvious symptoms, making strict quarantine and contact-tracing regimes crucial to preventing the number of cases from reaching the scale of the 2003 Sars outbreak.Without close surveillance, these patients – described by researchers as “cryptic cases…
Lunar New Year: tradition fades for South Korea’s ageing Chinese community, but red envelopes will never die
As Chinese residents of South Korea celebrate the Lunar New Year, it’s hard for some to escape the feeling that this may be a tradition that’s dying out.The population of huaqiao, as the overseas Chinese community is known, is dwindling and the younger generation appears less in tune with their cultural heritage.Ageing huaqiao are nostalgic…
Hong Kong feng shui masters say worst is over for Carrie Lam, unrest will continue but weaken in Year of the Rat
Hong Kong’s feng shui practitioners are predicting another uneasy 12 months for the city with the arrival of the Year of the Rat.But they offer a glimmer of hope, saying the Rat will not prove as savage as the Pig, who arrived this time last year to deliver anti-government protests, chaos, and a sharp downturn…
Chinese tech giants bid to be among Singapore’s new wave of digital banks
Made in China but hoping to leave their mark in Singapore, technology giants from the mainland are hoping their digital prowess will make them key players in the city state’s plans to reinvent its digital banking space.The Lion City’s central bank is issuing as many as five digital banking licences by June, with interested parties…
Explained: The economic importance of China’s Lunar New Year as the Year of the Rat begins
Families across China celebrated the beginning of its new year on Friday, which began with one of the planet’s greatest migrations, and will continue with a month of nationwide factory closures along with a spending spree that has the potential to have a big seasonal impact on the economy.Known as the Spring Festival or Lunar…
China coronavirus: safe drugs available but questions about effectiveness, Sars expert says as death toll rises to 41 on mainland
Several drugs are ready for use to treat patients in an outbreak of a novel coronavirus that has killed 41 people in China, according to a leading specialist.Zhong Nanshan, who is heading an expert team to deal with the newly identified virus, told the official Guangzhou Daily that the drugs were available and safe “but…
Top US official on Iran says China’s oil purchases are ‘funding Iran’s terrorism’
Washington’s top official for Iran accused China on Friday of financing terrorism by continuing to buy Iranian crude oil and urged Beijing to take the “long view” by siding with the Iranian people rather than the government in Tehran.Speaking the day after the Trump administration sanctioned several Chinese entities over their purchases of Iranian petroleum…
US actress Rosie Perez backs up Sciorra account in Harvey Weinstein rape trial
Actress Rosie Perez took the stand in the rape trial of Harvey Weinstein on Friday to bolster the account of friend and fellow actress Annabella Sciorra, who said she was raped by the former Hollywood producer in the early 1990s.Perez, whose film credits include Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing, told jurors that Sciorra shared…
Police and FBI feared Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou would escape via China’s consulate in Vancouver. Then the consulate hired her private jailers too
Three days after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested at Vancouver’s international airport, the American FBI and Canadian police discussed some very specific fears about what might happen if she were to be released on bail.“What could RCMP/CBSA do if she went to Chinese consulate, then to private airport?” say the December 4, 2018 notes…
China coronavirus: Wuhan residents describe ‘doomsday’ scenes as patients overwhelm hospitals
Hundreds of patients in Wuhan who have yet to be confirmed as carrying the new strain of coronavirus are becoming increasingly desperate as the city struggles to cope with the numbers reporting pneumonia symptoms.One 36-year-old, speaking by phone outside a major hospital in the city, said she had spent the past week taking her sick…
Hong Kong firms, Chinese gambling hit by Duterte’s freeze on reclamation in Manila Bay, Philippines
The Duterte administration’s decision to withhold approval for the reclamation of more than 10,000 hectares of land along Manila Bay could hamper the expansion plans of Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos), while adversely affecting firms from Hong Kong and mainland China which were meant to be part of the project. On January 13, President Rodrigo…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to visit UK ahead of Brexit, then to Ukraine
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Britain next week ahead of its exit from the European Union and will then travel to Ukraine, the country at the heart of President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.Pompeo arrives in London on Wednesday, meeting with Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to “discuss ways…
US air official tells airlines troubled Boeing 737 MAX could return to service before summer
Federal Aviation Administrator Steve Dickson has called senior US airline officials Friday and told them that the agency could approve the grounded Boeing 737 MAX’s return to service before midyear, people briefed on the calls said Friday.Dickson’s calls come days after Boeing said it was pushing back its timeline for approval of the plane’s return…
China coronavirus: First confirmed cases in Europe as two people are found infected in France
France confirmed on Friday its first two cases of the Wuhan coronavirus, with one patient being hospitalised in Paris and the other in the southwestern city of Bordeaux.Health Minister Agnes Buzyn told a news conference these were the first two confirmed cases in Europe and that more cases were likely to occur in France.Earlier, the…
A roadshow’s memo to US companies: China is still open for business
China is going straight to corporate America to improve its commercial relations.Former government officials and others working in a semi-official capacity have started lobbying US companies – including the pharmaceutical giant Merck and the engineering multinational Emerson – with the most recent information on what policies Beijing is changing, and what they mean.Beijing’s two-year effort…
Four die in powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 hit eastern Turkey on Friday, leaving at least four people dead and causing buildings to collapse.The quake shook the Sivrice district in the eastern province of Elazig at around 8.55pm (1755 GMT), the government’s disaster and emergency management agency said.The US Geological Survey assessed the quake’s magnitude at 6.7, and…
Four die in powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey
A powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 hit eastern Turkey on Friday, leaving at least four people dead and causing buildings to collapse.The quake shook the Sivrice district in the eastern province of Elazig at around 8.55pm (1755 GMT), the government’s disaster and emergency management agency said.The US Geological Survey assessed the quake’s magnitude at 6.7, and…
34 US troops suffered ‘traumatic brain injuries’ in recent Iranian strike
Nearly three dozen US troops suffered traumatic brain injuries or concussion in this month’s Iranian air strike on a military base in Iraq, the Pentagon said on Friday.“Thirty-four total members have been diagnosed with concussions and TBI (traumatic brain injury),” Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman told reporters.US President Donald Trump had initially said that no Americans…
‘Orwell would be proud’: US defence chief says China is a ‘21st century surveillance state’ that represses Muslim minorities
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that China’s Communist Party had created a surveillance state that uses artificial intelligence to repress Muslim minorities and pro-democracy demonstrators.China has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and UN rights experts over mass detentions and strict surveillance of the mostly Muslim Uygur minority and other…
‘Orwell would be proud’: US defence chief says China is a ‘21st century surveillance state’ that represses Muslim minorities
US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said on Friday that China’s Communist Party had created a surveillance state that uses artificial intelligence to repress Muslim minorities and pro-democracy demonstrators.China has faced an outcry from activists, scholars, foreign governments and UN rights experts over mass detentions and strict surveillance of the mostly Muslim Uygur minority and other…
Irish court approves extradition of 2 men charged with manslaughter in deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in London truck
An Irish court on Friday approved the extradition of one of the two Northern Irish men charged with manslaughter in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese people found in the back of a truck near London last year.British authorities are seeking Eamonn Harrison, 23, on charges of human trafficking and immigration offences, as well as the…
Jacqueline Wong is Still Messaging Kenneth Ma
Do the ex-lovers still have feelings for each other?
‘Don’t repeat the mistakes of Sars’, survivors’ group urges Hong Kong government as it wrestles with China coronavirus outbreak
As Hong Kong battles to keep the Wuhan coronavirus at bay, the government should not forget the dark days of the Sars outbreak 17 years ago and needs to avoid the mistakes that caused people great pain, a survivors’ group has warned.The Hong Kong Sars Mutual Help Association, a group formed by more than 300…
Still in USA After Giving Birth, Zhang Ziyi is Concerned about Coronavirus Outbreak
The new mother is resting in California after giving birth to her son in January.
China coronavirus: second US patient tests positive as health officials investigate 63 more suspected cases
A second case of the Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed in the United States, US health authorities announced on Friday.The patient, a woman in her 60s, had recently travelled to Chicago from the Chinese city, which is the epicentre of the contagion that is spreading globally, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)…
German gunman kills six in ‘brutal attack on his own family’
A gunman killed six people and seriously wounded two others in southwestern Germany on Friday, police said, with local media reporting that the victims were relatives of the shooter.The gunman, believed to have a personal motive, launched an assault in the town of Rot am See. Police in nearby Aalen said that a man with…