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A Thai park official implicated in the alleged killing of an environmental activist will not face prosecution for murder due to “insufficient evidence”, the attorney general’s office announced Monday — a move condemned by rights groups decrying impunity for enforced disappearances. Ethnic Karen leader Por Cha Lee Rakcharoen — known as Billy — vanished in […]

A woman died while taking part in a cake-eating competition to celebrate Australia Day, local media reported Monday. Paramedics were called to a pub in the state of Queensland on Sunday afternoon after a woman was involved in a “medical incident”. Public broadcaster ABC reported the 60-year-old had a seizure after she “shovelled a lamington […]

France will fly home its citizens who wish to leave the Chinese city of Wuhan at the centre of a coronavirus outbreak that has sickened thousands and killed 81, the government announced. The repatriation, via a direct flight to France, will be planned for the middle of this week, with Chinese permission, under the supervision […]

by Leo RAMIREZ China on Monday extended its biggest national holiday to buy time in the fight against a viral epidemic and neighbouring Mongolia closed its border, after the death toll spiked to 81 despite unprecedented quarantine measures. In a sign of the mounting official concern, Premier Li Keqiang visited ground-zero to oversee containment efforts […]

Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf has won in the Young Adult/High School Literature Category of the 2019 Freeman Book Awards. The awards are initiated by the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at Columbia University. They are focused on writing by children and young adults that boosts  understanding of East and South-east Asia. Hanna, 34, who was interviewed […]

Just after divorcing from Liam Hemsworth, Miley Cyrus dated Kaitlynn Carter and then moved to Cody Simpson. It has been a couple of months but Cyrus and Simpson are going strong. The relationship is moving fast but are they ready to take it to the next level and have babies? In August last year, Cyrus […]

Reality star Kourtney Kardashian, who said in 2018 that she had frozen her eggs for the possibility of a fourth child, recently reunited with ex Younes Bendjima and shared about a pregnancy. The mother of three children with former partner Scott Disick shared in a 2018 episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians that she was […]

Pop singer Justin Bieber wed his sweetheart Hailey Baldwin two years ago and in making an effort to have a good marriage, he has turned to a Christian self-help book that gives advice on how to keep a marriage ‘affair-proof’. The 25-year-old Yummy singer shared on his Instagram stories on January 22, his current reading […]

Sharifah Rose, an influencer and model came under fire recently for removing her headscarf briefly while on holiday in Phuket, Thailand. She was photographed without her headscarf and the photo was uploaded on Instagram. Netizens bashed the influencer online when she was spotted without the religious headscarf while on the beach with her friends and […]

Singer Jessica Simpson will be unveiling a book called Open Book where she shares about sexual abuse, alcohol and pill addiction and becoming sober in 2017. Buzzfeed reported People by saying that Simpson also talked about issues with John Mayer and that time he called her ‘sexual napalm’ in an interview. In a nutshell, she was […]

Being famous often means having to put up with internet trolls and bullies, this is something a celebrity like Khloe Kardashian can relate to. The reality star has faced criticism about how she lives. Shamed for being a mother and criticised for promoting diet culture, Khloe is constantly on the receiving end of online trolls. […]

Only four days after her wedding, former Elite singer Sasha Saidin has been accused of wrecking her husband’s previous marriage. Sasha, 43, and her financier husband Sirhan Wahab, 42, shot down the claim which was made in an email. The email, which went viral, claimed that Sasha had been cheating with Sirhan while he was […]

Mr and Mrs Smith star Brad Pitt has been making headlines recently hanging out with ex Jennifer Aniston and for making an outstanding acceptance speech at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. In the journey up to the Oscars, Pitt spent some time at the 35th annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival talking about his career […]

Singapore — Blogger Xiaxue, or Wendy Cheng Yan Yan, is one of the most popular online personalities in South-east Asia. She is known for her beauty tips and has done make-up tutorials on YouTube, including one for those who want to look like film star Angelina Jolie. On Jan 20, Xiaxue teased her 600,000 followers on Instagram, […]

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to end a pact key to annual war games with American troops if the US does not restore the travel visa of an official who oversaw his drug war. It is the latest in a long line of Duterte’s threats to shrink or sever ties with historical ally Washington, […]