She bought her first hip-hop cassette with her hongbao money when she was eight from a store at The Bedok Marketplace. Almost 20 years later, Singaporean rapper Masia One went on to live the dream when she found herself at...
You will see why Andy Lau is hailed as a 'legend' by his throng of loyal fans. The Hong Kong heavenly king lashed out at a security guard who tried to stop a fan from giving him flowers while he...
Home-grown singer-songwriter Gentle Bones, who started out in the indie scene, won two major awards at this year's Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass) Awards. The 22-year-old, whose real name is Joel Tan, won the Top Local English Pop...
Mediacorp Channels 5 and 8 have again been told by the authorities to clearly distinguish advertising content from their programmes. In the Media Development Authority's (MDA) 2nd Broadcast Programme Advisory Committee Combined Report released yesterday, the committee had observed that...
NEW YORK - Hundreds of pieces of art collected by late rock legend David Bowie went on display Monday in New York ahead of an auction, including works by modern greats Jean-Michel Basquiat and Damien Hirst. Bowie, who died in...
PARIS - A huge new exhibition about Tintin creator Herge does not shy away from showing how the cartoonist pined to be taken seriously as an artist nor his shame at his passivity during the Nazi occupation of Belgium. "Herge",...
Low-cost carrier AirAsia has announced its sponsorship of a Korean drama revolving around romance between aviation crew members. Starring Lee Sang-Yoon and Kim Ha-Neul, On the Way to the Airport follows the romantic relationships of several 30-something pilots and cabin...
A member of a Seoul-based college dance group Lee Hyo-min (not her real name) says she has no fancy tricks when it comes to dieting. She simply "starves" herself, said the 22-year-old. "I drink water and iced Americano," the aspiring...
LOS ANGELES - Actors Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber are splitting up after 11 years together, the couple said in a statement on Monday (Sept 26). Watts, 47, and Schreiber, 48, said that "the best way forward for us as...
A new fruity music video is taking over the Internet and, as usual, no one has any idea what the catchy song means. Japanese comedian and DJ Kosaka Daimaou's Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen YouTube video, PPAP for short, has all the classic hallmarks...
