BEIJING (Reuters): Chinese President Xi Jinping on April 26 told the United States’ top diplomat Antony Blinken that the world’s two biggest economies should be “partners, not rivals”, adding that there were a “number of issues” to be resolved in their relations. “The two countries should be partners, not rivals,” Xi said, according to state broadcaster...
Before it was forced to close over its “intolerable” treatment of animals, the Islamabad Zoo was home to neglected elephants and underfed lions pacing back and forth behind the bars of their enclosures. Now, four years later, it is a rehabilitation centre for Pakistani wildlife, providing a refuge for motherless leopard cubs, tigers seized from owners...
NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Police in India arrested a man at the New Delhi international airport on April 25 for impersonating a Singapore Airlines (SIA) pilot, after he was found walking around the airport dressed in full pilot gear. In a fashion not dissimilar to the semi-fictional Hollywood film Catch Me If You Can starring...
PHNOM PENH/NEW YORK (AFP): New York prosecutors said Friday they had returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American dealers and traffickers. The antiquities were valued at a total of US$3 million, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said. Bragg said in a statement that he had returned...
KUCHING: The welfare home in Taman Desa Aman, Padang Serai, Kedah, seen in viral videos of an old man being beaten by a woman believed to be an employee at the centre, is not registered with the Social Welfare Department (JKM), says Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. The Women, Family and Community Development Minister said this was...
Some netizens thought it was a collaboration between the two brands. A mini dress retailing for US$40 (S$54) from Spanish clothing brand Zara has some shoppers in China doing a double take. At first glance, the brown-coloured dress with red trimmings does suspiciously look like an apron one receives before starting a messy meal at hotpot chain Haidilao. A...
If you’ve been keeping tabs on Thailand’s recent military draft news, chances are you would’ve come across photos of Thai transgender beauties, Parida Kerayuphan and Kantong Passarapon. Parida and Kantong, both 21, shot to fame after their appearance at the Kaset Wisai district’s military conscription centre earlier this month. For those who don’t know, Thai law mandates that...
The four bed-room apartment was sold for S$12.8mil, boosting her already hefty net worth. Carina Lau is one of Hong Kong’s richest actresses, with an estimated net worth of HK$800mil (S$142mil). Besides acting, the 56-year-old made her riches from her restaurant and nightclub businesses in Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, as well as real estate investments. Together with her hubby, movie legend Tony Leung,...
The 29-year-old also hit back at trolls who said she should expect such things in her line of work. A vice-captain of a cheerleading team in Taiwan has taken to social media to call out a man for pointing his camera phone up her skirt during a performance. 29-year-old Ouyang Ru aka Ru Ru is also part...
'I don't make music for children,' Doja Cat noted in a series of tweets, seemingly in response to parents who brought their 'offspring' to her performances. Doja Cat‘s music and performances aren’t for kids, she clarified in a series of tweets. Less than a week after closing out Coachella’s second weekend with a provocative performance, the 28-year-old rapper...
