Author - jessie tan

Yang Mi Yearns for Love Every Day

Since her divorce in 2018, Yang Mi (楊冪) has been focusing on work and spends her free time visiting her daughter in Hong Kong. Aside from attracting attention on her projects, her love life is also often discussed. Last year, Yang Mi was said to have broken up with actor Wei Daxun (魏大勋). While the 35-year-old gave no responses...

Eric Tsang: “My Best Actress Pick Was Mandy Wong”

With controversies surrounding this year’s TVB Anniversary Awards, many netizens are angry that Rosina Lam (林夏薇) won Best Actress instead of hot favorite, Linda Chung (鍾嘉欣). Disappointed in the results, some are accusing TVB of rigging the award and fans are demanding that they give Linda the award back. Raising her two children in Canada since becoming a mother, Linda returned to...

These life lessons from the pandemic are worth bringing into 2022

2021 was the year we all hoped would mark the end of the pandemic (spoiler alert: it didn’t). For 2022, we’re wise enough to ditch the wishful thinking and focus on what this crisis has taught us, school-of-hard-knocks style. Arguably, there’re plenty of life lessons about self-care, work, and living well that we can draw from...

Israel finds fourth vaccine boosts antibodies 5-fold; violence at pandemic protests in Germany

A fourth dose of Covid-19 vaccine boosts antibodies five-fold a week after the shot is administered, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday (Jan 4), citing preliminary findings of an Israeli study. “A week into the fourth dose we know to a higher degree of certainty that the fourth dose is safe,” Bennett said at...

Thailand allows visitors back to Maya Bay, a beach made famous by movie

Tourists visit Maya bay after Thailand reopened its world-famous beach after closing it for more than three years to allow its ecosystem to recover from the impact of overtourism at Krabi province, Thailand on Jan 3, 2022.Reuters Thailand has reopened Maya Bay, a white sand beach made famous by the 2000 film The Beach starring Leonardo DiCaprio,...

Has China’s push to ban ‘effeminate’ and ‘sissy’ men claimed its first victim? The tragic case of Zhou Peng

The death in late November 2021 of a 26-year-old Chinese photographer who took his own life has reignited debate about the mental health and bullying implications of China's push for boys and men to be masculine and not "sissy or effeminate". When he died, Zhou Peng, a bona fide social media celebrity, left an apparent suicide...

Floods hit 7 states in Malaysia, thousands more evacuated

A view of buildings and vehicles submerged in flood waters in Shah Alam, Selangor state, Malaysia, on Dec 19, 2021.Reuters Seven states in Malaysia were hit by floods on Sunday (Jan 2) and thousands of people were evacuated, taking the total affected by heavy rain in the last two weeks to over 125,000, the National Disaster Management...

Woman in Penang gives birth in car, after public hospital allegedly told her to go home

Less than three hours after she was sent home by a doctor last Monday (Dec 27), a Malaysian woman had to give birth in a car while stuck in traffic on the way back to the hospital, The New Straits Times reported. Last Tuesday, a viral Facebook post from Penangku Viral surfaced, recounting the incident. The post has since garnered over...

Dental assistant steals around $150,000 from clinic, buys property in Malaysia

Charlene Ashby Clay took around $150,000 in total.The Straits Times/ Kelvin Chng She was given a second chance to continue working as a dental assistant after her employer caught her embezzling money, but she continued to steal from the clinic's earnings. Charlene Ashby Clay, 24, took around $150,000 in total and used the money for her personal...

Rumours of The Flash building new DC movie universe gets shot down by star Ezra Miller

Andrés Muschietti’s upcoming The Flash movie starring Ezra Miller is undeniably one of the most anticipated films of 2022. This is especially for DC fans who have been wanting to see more of the Scarlett Speedster since he zoomed onto the screen in Justice League, and later on in Zack Snyder’s Justice League. Details of The...