It appears congratulations are in order for new parents Jacky Heung and Bea Hayden Kuo who just threw a party to celebrate the 100th day of their daughter Cora in Taipei the other day. Aside from the lovely photos of Cora with her doting parents and grandparents, fans also got the unexpected treat of finding out Cora’s real name Xiang Zhi (向芷) after...
Just another day in Chinese entertainment as another celebrity in the form of THE9’s Esther Yu Shuxin is forced to apologise for the behaviour of some of her fans online. We all know how fans can get fiercely protective of their idols, but Esther’s fans took things a little too far today when they badgered a well known university to...
WhatsApp’s policies changed to reflect the possibility of commercial transactions involving the mingling of activity among Facebook apps. There was a backlash to WhatsApp in recent days after it posted what appear to be overhauled privacy policies. Let me try to clarify what happened. Some people think the messaging app will now force those using it to...
Staff wear personal protection suits at a registration site for passengers at a train station following the Covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province, China on Jan 13, 2021. China reported its biggest daily jump in new Covid-19 cases in more than 10 months as infections in northeastern Heilongjiang province nearly tripled, underscoring the growing threat ahead of...
Taiwanese actor Ethan Ruan (阮經天) has had an award-winning film and television career, but despite winning the screens, he has won little in his private life. The 38-year-old rarely talks about his private life, because to him, there really is nothing much to talk about. But in a recent episode of Chinese talk show Nian Nian Tao Hua Yuan <念念桃花源>,...
Viewers are unconvinced about her portrayal of a 15-year-old in new drama “Monarch Industry”. Monarch Industry <上陽賦>, the first costume drama which Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) filmed three years ago, finally premiered on January 9. The supporting cast consisting of Zhou Yiwei (周一圍), Yu Hewei (于和偉), Kara Hui (惠英紅) and other veterans undoubtedly pushed up anticipation for the drama. In less than a day, Monarch Industry climbed in...
Filming for their upcoming drama series You Are My Glory <你是我的荣耀> has already completed, yet they’re still overloading us with cuteness! To commemorate the end of filming, Yang Yang (杨样) and Dilraba Dilmurat (迪丽热巴) filmed a short clip of them exchanging gifts to celebrate the beginning of an end. They referred to each other as their characters in the clip. The gifts were...
For an entire month, Jeannie Chan (陳瀅) stayed atop Google search rankings after a three-second performance of her character seducing Owen Cheung (張振朗) in 2017’s The No No Girl <全職沒女>. And now, three years, later, Jeannie is back with another explosive performance. Starring as Edwin Siu’s (蕭正楠) wife in the TVB drama Beauty and the Boss <愛美麗狂想曲>, Jeannie was getting bothered by Edwin’s lack of physical...
The 2020 TVB Anniversary Awards named Sisley Choi (蔡思貝) Best Actress for her performance in Legal Mavericks 2 <踩過界 II>, successfully beating out another favorite Katy Kung (龔嘉欣). Some netizens did not think Sisley is ready for the award yet, and believed that Katy who has been with TVB for more years deserved Best Actress instead of the consolation awards she received....
MGM's resurrected American International Pictures label has just released a weird and wild trailer for Tate Taylor's star-studded crime comedy Breaking News in Yuba County, and you really should check it out, if only to see Awkwafina's turn as some kind of badass. Oscar winner Allison Janney stars as a housewife named Sue Buttons who becomes a local celebrity after her husband Karl...
