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HK Star Kenny Bee’s Wife Stayed By His Side Even After He Filed For Bankruptcy

Behind every great man, there is a great woman. Sometimes, these great woman aren’t known for performing grand sweeping gestures. Instead, it’s for something as simple as staying by their loved one’s side. Hong Kong star Kenny Bee (钟镇涛) or fondly known as Ah Bee (啊B), went through a brutal breakup and later, was faced with...

Guan Xiaotong’s Annual Birthday Greeting to BF Luhan Proves Their Relationship is Still Going Strong

Together: “Happy Birthday @ Luhan” writes his girlfriend Guan Xiaotong on 23:31 Whoa. Birthday boy Luhan and girlfriend Guan Xiaotong were in for a bit of drama yesterday when breakup rumours swirling around the couple grew louder after it was noted that she failed to give her usual birthday greeting at midnight on April 20th. In previous years, Guan Xiaotong always...

Tiffany Ann Hsu Reportedly Went Through a Divorce, Not a Breakup

Tiffany Ann Hsu is making headlines today after Taiwanese media reported that a friend of hers said that she is divorced. Tiffany Hsu got out of a high-profile relationship with ex-boyfriend Ethan Ruan in 2015 after dating for eight years. Tiffany made her new relationship public in 2017 after being spotted with her non-showbiz beau Liu Younian. They seem...

Yang Mi Receives a Gift from BonBon Girls Wang Yijin

Wang Yijin shared a photo of herself with Yang Mi last December Yang Mi just got a sweet surprise from BonBon Girls’ Wang Yijin yesterday who sent the superstar a painting in her own likeness. The excited actress immediately took to social media to gush about her gift and to thank Wang Yijin for her present. “Thank you Yi Jin Zi...

K-drama Taxi Driver: Styled like Ryan Gosling in Drive, Lee Je-hoon plays a vengeful cabbie

Lee Je-hoon stars as a driver for the Rainbow Taxi Company in Taxi Driver, a slick action-thriller Korean drama series that takes its stylistic references from Ryan Gosling-led noir crime thriller Drive.SBS This article contains spoilers. A new hot rod has pulled into the K-drama broadcast schedule. Based on the webcomic The Deluxe Taxi (the Korean name of...

Westlite Woodlands dorm: 10 workers who recovered from Covid-19 test positive again

Plans are now being made to move hundreds of workers to a quarantine facility.The Straits Times Another 11 workers staying at Westlite Woodlands dormitory have tested positive for Covid-19, including 10 who have recovered from the virus, said the Ministry of Manpower on Wednesday (April 21). This comes after a 35-year-old Bangladeshi worker staying at the purpose-built...

Backlash to Japan’s Fukushima waste water plan quietens as South Korea, China assess the real cost

The storage tanks for treated water are seen at the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan, on March 1 2021.Reuters After rebuking Japan last week over its plan to discharge contaminated water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean and threatening to petition an international court, South Korea...

Taking a knee, raising a fist to be punished at Tokyo Games: IOC

The Olympic rings are pictured in front of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headquarters during the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak in Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb 24, 2021.Reuters Taking a knee during the Tokyo Olympics or lifting a fist in support of racial equality will be punished as the International Olympic Committee on Wednesday (April 21) maintained its ban...

Greece to reopen tourism services on May 15

A man wearing a protective face mask walks with is dog in Alimos, a seaside suburb of Athens, on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Greece’s prime minister says the country’s tourism industry will open on May 15 when a ban on travel between different regions in the country will also be lifted. Prime Minister Kyriakos...

Is it finally game on for video game adaptations?

This image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows the character Detective Pikachu, voiced by Ryan Reynolds, in a scene from "Pokemon Detective Pikachu." In 2019, “Detective Pikachu,” based on the Nintendo game, grossed more than $400 million worldwide. (Warner Bros. Pictures via AP) Is there a more woebegone movie genre than the video game adaptation? This...