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The maker of Budweiser and Stella Artois beers has revived plans to list its Asia unit in Hong Kong, saying it wants to raise almost $5 billion in what would be the world’s second-biggest initial public offering this year. The decision by Belgium-listed Anheuser-Busch InBev to sell the stake will provide a much-needed boost to […]

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actor Brad Pitt have several things in common such as being natural blondes, having a certain comedic charm and stylish flair. What is surprising is that they even dated the same woman before. DeGeneres revealed details on September 13 when the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor stopped […]

Mandopop singer Jay Chou’s much anticipated new single has hit 1.93 million views in eight hours after it was released on Monday (September 16). After waiting for three years, this is the new material being released by the popular singer. The song ‘Won’t Cry’ sees him collaborating with Mayday’s Ashin and the song was released […]

The unpopular sacking of head coach Marcelino Garcia Toral on September 11 ignited a crisis at the Spanish football club with Valencia football club fans demanding that Singaporean billionaire Peter Lim give up his ownership of Valencia. To express their utter displeasure on the removal of Marcelino, passionate Spanish football fans have taken to social media and drummed […]

A white British man had his jaw shaved down, among other plastic surgeries to look like his Korean boyband idol. 29-year-old Oli London from London broke the news in Oct 2018 when he spent over 75,000 pounds (SGD128,000) on surgeries to look like K-pop star Jimin from Korean boyband BTS. The Londoner is particularly infatuated […]

Jacqueline Wong’s last work on screen might be the television series ‘Finding Her Voice’. The actress has reportedly retired from the entertainment industry and is now residing in Canada. According to Hong Kong media China Press, the actress has also changed her name. The TV series Finding Her Voice was previously scheduled for airing next month in […]

by Catherine KURZAWA Apple went on the offensive against Brussels in an EU court on Tuesday, fighting the European Commission’s landmark order that the iPhone-maker reimburse Ireland 13 billion euros ($14 billion) in back taxes. The EU’s tax demand, made three years ago, “defies reality and common sense,” Apple’s lawyer Daniel Beard told the EU’s […]

A panel of global civil aviation authorities is expected to criticize the US Federal Aviation Administration’s approval of Boeing’s 737 MAX, which has been grounded for six months following two crashes, a source familiar with the matter said Monday. The panel, known as the Joint Authorities Technical Review (JATR), was set up last April by […]

by Joseph Szczesny Almost 50,000 US auto workers went on strike on Monday in a pay dispute with General Motors, the largest industrial action to hit the carmaker in more than a decade. Workers from 31 plants opted to walk out after talks between the company and the United Auto Workers Union hit an impasse […]

A Desperate Housewives actress, Felicity Huffman, got a two weeks jail sentence for paying bribes to help her daughter gain admission to a prestigious American university. The jail term is for her role in the college admission scandal that rocked the U.S. in March this year. The college admissions bribery scandal arose over a criminal conspiracy to influence […]

The haze which is allegedly caused by forest and land fires in Riau is also wreaking havoc in South Sumatra. After three days of intense haze invading their home, Ngadirun (34) and Ita Septiana’s (27), 4-month-old baby became very sick. Elsa Pitaloka caught a cold, cough and flatulence. And on Sunday, September 15, in the morning, Elsa was rushed by […]

An Indonesian woman married to a Malaysian has been accused of human trafficking, a crime she did not commit, says her family who pleaded with the authorities to get her out of jail in Malaysia. Supinah (43) is now involved in legal issues in Malaysia. She came to Malaysia as an Indonesian citizen working abroad […]

by Sophie DEVILLER Skipping school to glide through a dirty Bangkok canal on a paddleboard, Lilly fishes out rubbish in her mission to clean up Thailand, where the average person uses eight plastic bags every single day. “I am a kid at war,” the bubbly 12-year-old says after a painstaking hour-long routine picking up cans, […]

by Caroline Nelly PERROT Two anti-establishment candidates in Tunisia’s divisive election claimed Sunday to have won through to a runoff, hours after polling closed in the country’s second free presidential poll since the 2011 Arab Spring. In a sign of voter apathy, especially among the young, turnout was reported by the elections commission (ISIE) to […]

by Yan ZHAO and Jerome TAYLOR Hong Kong police on Monday denied accusations their officers showed comparative lenience towards gangs of pro-Beijing men who attacked pro-democracy supporters during a weekend marked by multiple bloody street brawls. The once stable international hub has been convulsed by weeks of huge, sometimes violent rallies calling for greater democratic […]