Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho said on Thursday (Feb 20) he was proud of how his fellow South Koreans had overcome the fallout from impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3. The martial law that triggered South Korea's biggest political crisis in decades lasted about six hours before lawmakers scaled walls of...
CHUKAI: The Director of a government agency in Terengganu is among the two men who have been remanded for six days, starting Monday (Jan 20), on suspicion of soliciting and accepting a bribe of approximately RM900,000 in exchange for securing a project, preparing and approving several development plans for a consultancy firm. The remand order, until...
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man pleaded not guilty on Thursday (Sept 26) in a Johor court to a charge of indirect sabotage linked to the damage of water supply in a Kota Tinggi village. Tan Eng Yong, 41, and Malaysian Lau Kam Wai, 53, were charged in a sessions court with conspiring with another individual, who remains...
SINGAPORE: A former director at the Singapore College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) was handed multiple charges on Thursday (June 13) after he allegedly took upskirt pictures of at least eight women. Liew Meng Fatt, 56, was charged with three counts of insulting the modesty of women and two counts of voyeurism. The Singaporean is said to...
Binance has appointed a board of directors for the first time as regulatory crackdown intensifies. The newly formed board will be chaired by Gabriel Abed, previously Barbados’ ambassador to the United Arab Emirates. The board comprises seven members, including Binance CEO Richard Teng and other key executives such as Heina Chen, Jinkai He, and Lilai Wang, who were...
KUALA LUMPUR: A company has come forward to claim the suitcase filled with over RM500,000 in cash found at a shopping mall's parking lot, says Selangor police chief Comm Datuk Hussein Omar Khan. He said that the company had lodged a police report in Shah Alam on the matter and added that while the company director...
He was going through all sorts of emotions. Last weekend (Sep 2), Hong Kong film legend Tony Leung, 61, became the first Chinese actor to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival. Taiwanese director Ang Lee, who worked with Tony on the 2007 political romance film, Lust, Caution, took the stage to present the actor with the honour. “There’s something...
