Craft beer, live music and lodging featured in renovation plans that Takuya Shimbo had for an aging Tokyo bathhouse, hoping to rescue a fading industry from extinction by reinventing the concept of communal bathing. Then the novel coronavirus struck. The government deemed Japan’s few remaining bathhouses as critical for public hygiene so it requested they stay open,...
Telecom giant Huawei became the only Chinese technology brand listed in this year's list of the world's most valuable brands, released by Forbes. Ranked 93rd on the list, Huawei registered $8.5 billion (S$11.6 billion) in brand value and $188.6 billion in brand revenue. Forbes' annual list looks at the top 100 companies from fiscal year 2019, valuing...
What do a cheesy crunchy snack food and a global financial scandal have in common? In Malaysia, it boils down to one man: Najib Razak, the former premier convicted of corruption and abuse of power – and aficionado of the local snack Super Ring, a bright orange cheese powder-dusted snack popular among schoolchildren. Super Ring became strongly...
Najib Razak ’s first 1MDB -linked criminal trial may be done and dusted, but the former Malaysian prime minister faces another cliffhanger. Now he has been convicted and sentenced to jail, albeit with bail pending appeal, the next big question is this: will his long-time allies in the United Malays National Organisation (Umno) stand by him...
To attract customers, bakeries often try new recipes from around the world. A photo of a scallion bread sold in a bakery in Japan went viral on Facebook, with a caption saying that “Japanese must have misunderstood Taiwanese people.” The photo taken at a bakery in Okinawa shows the bread with chunks of green onions on top...
Filmed last year, TVB drama Chinatown <唐人街> was marketed as the sister production to the widely successful A Fist within Four Walls <城寨英雄> and The Unholy Alliance <同盟>. Expectations for Chinatown are high, and the drama has been designated to air during the coveted Anniversary Awards period. Like its sister productions, Chinatown is produced by Jazz Boon (文偉鴻). The cast, consisting of Ruco Chan (陳展鵬), Natalie Tong (唐詩詠), Elaine Yiu (姚子羚), Joel Chan (陳山聰), Philip Ng (伍允龍), Grace Wong (王君馨), Tiffany Lau (劉穎鏇), Yuen...
Just last week, we saw a couple of irresponsible Malaysians with Covid-19 wristbands breaking home quarantine rules. Earlier today (Wednesday, 29th July), another woman with the pink tag on her wrist was seen queueing in line to enter a bank in Raja Uda, Bagan, Penang. An admin on the Penang Kini Facebook page uploaded a few pictures of...
Datuk Michelle Yeoh (楊紫瓊) took to Instagram last night (Wednesday, 29th July) to share her uncomfortable experience of undergoing the Covid-19 test. The Malaysian-born actress winced as a lady staff performed a nasal swab test on her. The 58-year-old revealed that this was her second Covid-19 test to date and apologised for being – in her...
Bella Astillah safely delivered her second child on 18th July (Saturday), though her husband Aliff Aziz wasn’t around to accompany her throughout the process. Almost two weeks after giving birth to her baby daughter, the “Tenang” singer has finally unveiled her beautiful baby daughter for the first time to her fans on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CDONeOODXgx/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet Bella uploaded a few photos of her...
Britain's Prince Harry took offence at what he thought was Prince William's "snobbishness" when he advised his brother to "take as much time as you need to get to know this girl" when he was dating Meghan Markle, a new book says. Harry and his wife, Meghan, have distanced themselves from the book called Finding Freedom,...
