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CANNES, France – After 12 days of red carpet glamour, political fashion statements and wardrobe malfunctions, here are the looks that turned heads at the Cannes film festival.
Beware the thigh-split – Gowns slashed almost to the hip were omnipresent at this year’s Cannes, with Susan Sarandon – at 70, the same age as the festival – giving a masterclass in the genre when she turned up on opening night in a green velvet number that also made the most of her ample cleavage.
But the dangers of the thigh-split were also on display, with US supermodel Bella Hadid repeatedly flashing her underwear due to the daring cut of her dress by Alexandre Vauthier.
My skirt is bigger than yours – Big nights call for big dresses and there was many a full skirt on the red carpet, from R&B superstar Rihanna’s vast white Dior number to Nicole Kidman’s giant puffball skirt for “The Killing of a Sacred Deer”.
But Bollywood queen Aishwarya Rai Bachchan stole the show in a pale blue ballroom gown so big it took a team of five assistants to help her up the stairs.
Tweetstorm dress – Israeli Culture Minister Miri Regev set the internet alight with her choice of frock for the opening gala, emblazoned with the Jerusalem skyline, which she said was intended to mark 50 years since the city’s “liberation and reunification” – a view its Palestinian residents would dispute.
Web users delighted in Photoshopping the image, with one redesigning it to feature the separation wall dividing Israel and the West Bank.
Butch is back – Harder-edged looks made a comeback amongst all the frills this year, with “Mad Men” actress Elisabeth Moss and Uma Thurman both opting for leather jackets over their evening dresses.
Kristen Stewart also premiered a butch new haircut, bleached and buzzed close to the scalp.
Hair today, gone tomorrow – One new hairdo wasn’t enough for Mexican actress Salma Hayek. She turned chameleon this week, showing off no less than three radically different styles in 24 hours, starting with ink-tinted curls one evening, a black bob the morning after and straight brown locks just hours after that.
That she ostensibly managed to grow out her fringe in the space of just a few hours was particularly impressive.
Age of the transparent jumpsuit – Less is more, apparently? This Cannes was marked by red carpet guests leaving the very minimum to the imagination. From the front, Portuguese model Sara Sampaio’s lace dress for a premiere this week was a rather demure affair, but the back proudly displayed a thong for all to see.
US model and Instagram queen Emily Ratajkowski also opted for lace with a jumpsuit by Norwegian designer Peter Dundas that relied on thicker parts of the fabric to cover her modesty.
A Lamborghini owned by actor and singer Pakorn “Dome” Lam was not stolen from Britain and sent to Thailand, Department of Investigation (DSI) chief Pol Colonel Paisit Wongmuang announced to the press on Monday.
Pakorn’s car body and engine numbers did not match the stolen vehicle of the same model and colour that the DSI is looking for, added DSI deputy chief Lt-Colonel Korrawat Panprapakorn.
After Paisit and Korrawat asked Pakorn to allow the DSI to inspect his car and the accompanying documentation to confirm that, the entertainer contacted the agency to say he will co-operate with investigators, the DSI said.
Paisit and Korrawat also told investigators to check if Pakorn’s car was imported legally.
Because if it were not, Paisit said the company that imported it would be held responsible and Pakorn would be the damaged party.
The DSI’s raids on car dealerships and other locations on May 18 and 24 resulted in 160 cars being impounded for further probes over allegations of tax evasion that had cost the country Bt3 billion in lost revenue.
Ten cars stolen from Britain were found among the 160 cars including six parked at dealerships.
Three other cars had been sold and one was found at the Customs Department’s Duty-Free Zone.
The DSI is looking for the remaining 32 stolen cars, with it obtaining information about 10 of them, it was reported.
Motorcycle racer Akarakit “Benz Racing” Worarojcharoendet formally pleaded not guilty on Monday to laundering money.
His lawyer, Sitthichok Trinet, said he was prepared to post Bt3 million in cash as bail.
Prosecutors on Friday decided to indict Akarakit, Sansern Rasanont, 25, and Angsuporn Inna, 29, for allegedly laundering drug money and conspiring to launder money on behalf of accused Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpa. The three also face charges under the Measures for Suppression of Narcotic Offenders Act of abetting drug-related offences and accepting assets in return.
Before entering the courtroom, Akarakit repeated to reporters that he had nothing to do with drug trafficking and intended to clear his name regarding related money transactions.
In the months since the allegations emerged, Akarakit has never been held in custody. He remained free through seven detention-request periods prior to the indictment, on Bt500,000 bail and on condition he not leave the country without the court’s permission.
Yangon – Myanmar netizens were in uproar on Monday after Facebook seemingly banned people from posting the word “kalar,” often used as a slur against Muslims, at a time of rising Islamophobia in the country.
Facebook is under global pressure to clamp down on hate speech, violent threats or deliberately misleading information on their platform — with efforts showing varying degrees of success.
Dozens of users in Myanmar reported being temporarily barred from the site recently after posting the controversial term kalar, which is frequently used as an insult for the country’s embattled Muslim minority.
Some users said they were even blocked after writing other words that include the same sound in the Burmese alphabet, highlighting the difficulties Facebook has monitoring millions of posts in multiple languages.
Aung Kaung Myat said he had been prevented from liking, posting and sharing content on the site for 24 hours last week for writing about the apparent ban, as had many of his friends.
“It is ridiculous,” he said. “I became a victim of it myself when I wrote: ‘Facebook is deleting the posts that include the word kalar’.”
Yarzar Soe-Oo said he was barred on Friday after posting a jokey quip about eating Indian bean soup (“kalar pal hin”) while sitting in a chair (“kalar htaing”).
Facebook did not reply to emailed requests for comment while a spokesman for the Myanmar government said it had not pushed for a ban.
Kalar is a deeply controversial term in Myanmar, where it is used to refer to foreigners in general but most commonly to describe people of Indian origin and anything relating to their culture.
Over the years it has also been turned into a derogatory slur by Buddhist nationalists against Muslims.
Two angry Facebook users have responded to the apparent ban by creating an event called “We own Kalar” in protest.
By early afternoon some 1,400 people had said they were interested in attending the gathering, scheduled for Wednesday in Yangon.
“Even though no action is taken against fake accounts which share hate speech and spew abuse… action is taken over (words we use every day),” said the organisers.
“We own the word as we have been using it for decades and over the centuries.”
The push comes as Myanmar’s government has been seeking to clamp down on hate speech after a spike in anti-Muslim actions by Buddhist hardliners.
In recent months they have shut down religious events, forced two Yangon schools accused of illegally doubling up as mosques to close and this month clashed with Muslims after pushing police to raid a house in their neighbourhood.
Last week Myanmar’s top Buddhist authority officially banned ultra-nationalist Ma Ba Tha movement, which responded on Sunday by simply changing their name.
“If you write Ma Ba Tha, you can erase the words. But no one can erase Ma Ba Tha from your heart,” leader Tilawka Biwuntha told the gathering.
SINGAPORE: Eight people were hurt after an accident involving an SBS bus and a ComfortDelGro taxi on Sunday morning (May 28).
The police said they were alerted at 11.35am to the accident at the junction of Hougang Avenue 2 and Yio Chu Kang Road.
The eight injured people, who were conscious, were sent to Tan Tock Seng Hospital for medical attention. Police investigations are ongoing, the authorities added.
The SBS bus and ComfortDelGro taxi ended up on opposite sides of the junction. (Photo: Jacky Chan Koon Kit)
The Singapore Civil Defence Force also sent two fire engines, two fire bikes, three ambulances and one support vehicle to the scene, it said.
ComfortDelGro group corporate communications officer Tammy Tan told Channel NewsAsia on Monday that the company’s priority was the well-being of its passengers and the taxi driver.
“We were at the hospital yesterday and are in contact with them. We will be assisting them as best we can while investigations are being carried out.”
