You can have anyone sing at your wedding… as long as you can afford it. Hong Kong star Pakho Chau, 38, has been in-demand ever since finishing 13th in the second season of Call Me By Fire, last year. The singer-actor was recently booked to perform at a wedding held at Shenzhen’s Shangri-La Hotel. His fees for singing two song were said to...
One would have thought it was a forced marriage. A newlywed couple in China has become the talk of the Internet after the groom was photographed looking really glum on his wedding day. Weddings are supposed to be a happy occasion, but that didn’t appear to be the case for a 23-year-old groom, who recently married a woman 20...
(Reuters) - Alexander Zverev has been ordered by a Berlin court to pay an undisclosed fine for physically abusing the mother of his child, the German tennis player's lawyers said, adding that he would contest the court order. The former world number two "rejects the accusation made against him" by his former girlfriend Brenda Patea that...
PETALING JAYA: Shuttler Amanda Yap is reaping the rewards after switching from women’s singles to doubles. The 19-year-old made the decision to permanently change to the doubles in April after failing to produce good results in the singles. Amanda was overlooked twice by the Badminton Association of Malaysia (BAM) last year during selection trials and a foot...
KUALA LUMPUR: Singles shuttler Lee Zii Jia’s recent Europe swing had its ups and downs but it was the manner he had handled himself through it all that won the praise of his coach Wong Tat Meng. Zii Jia started strongly by winning the Arctic Open in Finland, his first title in 17 months after the...
PETALING JAYA: For Denmark’s world No. 1 Viktor Axelsen (pic), nothing is more important than his health. The 29-year-old Axelsen has been dealing with lower leg and left foot injuries since the Denmark Open last month. These injuries have led to him conceding a walkover to Malaysia’s world No. 11 Lee Zii Jia in the last 16...
PETALING JAYA: Men’s doubles shuttlers Aaron-Chia-Soh Wooi Yik are out to end the year on a high by sealing their World Tour Finals berth after regaining their No. 2 spot in the world. Aaron-Wooi Yik had ended their long wait for a World Tour title at the Denmark Open last month and the victory in Odense...
PETALING JAYA: Don’t lose heart. This is the message from badminton legend Datuk Lee Chong Wei (pic) for professional mixed doubles pairs Goh Soon Huat-Shevon Lai Jemie and Tan Kian Meng-Lai Pei Jing after they were dropped from the Road to Gold (RTG) programme yesterday due to poor form. The writing’s had been on the wall for...
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim received a courtesy call on Wednesday (Nov 1) from his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte at Seri Perdana here as Malaysia and Netherlands continue to strengthen bilateral relations. Rutte arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday (Oct 31) for a two-day working visit, his second visit to this country after his...
KUALA LUMPUR: Enforcement personnel are being mobilised to monitor chicken prices after subsidies for the item were removed today, says Datuk Armizan Mohd Ali. The acting Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister said 2,300 enforcement personnel and some 900 price monitoring officers had been deployed to monitor the situation at all levels, including at hypermarkets,...
