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Thousands of mourners flocked to mass graves Thursday in Indonesia’s Aceh province to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in history. On a grassy field in Aceh Besar district where at least 47,000 victims were laid to rest, family members and relatives prayed, scattered flower […]

Welcome to TISG’s curated list of outrageous, wise, hilarious, profound, heartbreaking and eyebrow-raising things that people said from the year that was. “Who does she think I am … Bill Gates?” This was said by the former King of Malaysia about Oksana Voevodina, after she asked for a £1.2 million Moscow apartment and a £24,000-a-month allowance to […]

Hong Kong — The final instalment of the Ip Man franchise, Ip Man 4: The Finale, may be breaking box office records in China and Taiwan. In Hong Kong, however, it is falling short. Protesters are boycotting the film because of the pro-Beijing stance of its stars and producer. Users of a Reddit-like forum, LIHKG, […]

Singapore — The police said yesterday (Dec 25) that a 32-year-old Indian national is under investigation for taking part in a public assembly at Marina Bay in protest against India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act. According to TODAY, the police had received a report about the matter on Tuesday (Dec 24). The police said in a statement […]

Singapore — A disabled British national, who scheduled the trip of a lifetime over the holidays, lost a part of her wheelchair en route to Asia and was left stranded and unable to move from her bed in a hotel room in Singapore on Christmas Day. Ms Gemma Quinn, an experienced traveller, said: “This was […]

Action star Jackie Chan is known for performing his own stunts but he nearly drowned recently during filming of his latest movie Vanguard. The GMA Network quoted China.org.cn as saying that Chan was trapped under a rock while filming a jet ski scene. Chan, 65, shared later that he willed himself not to panic as crew members […]

The stars of The Eternals superhero film are wishing fans happy holidays. Cast member Barry Keoghan shared a photo yesterday (Dec 24) of himself with some of the cast, including Ma Dong Seok, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff and Brian Tyree Henry. View this post on Instagram ? #Eternals A post shared […]

The South Korean K-pop boy band, BTS, reigned at No 1 on Billboard’s Social 50 chart for the whole of this year. Billboard released charts yesterday (Dec 24) for the final chart week for this year. BTS once again grabbed the No 1 spot. Artists are ranked on the chart based on data from music analytics […]

Britain’s Prince Philip, the 98-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth, left a London hospital yesterday (Dec 24). He had been taken there last Friday as a precautionary measure for treatment of a pre-existing condition. Known officially as the Duke of Edinburgh, he walked out of the King Edward VII Hospital, shook hands with a nurse, got into […]

A white-bearded man robbed a bank two days before Christmas, but threw the stolen cash in the air and wished passers-by a merry Christmas, US media reported. Colorado police confirmed in a statement an “older white male” robbed the Academy Bank in Colorado Springs after threatening workers with an unidentified weapon and leaving with an […]

Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris was unable to hold Christmas Eve Mass for the first time in more than 200 years — after a fire ravaged its structure in April. With heavy hearts, French Catholics instead gathered at the nearby church of Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois, a few hundred metres away, for a service celebrated by the cathedral’s […]

by Véronique DUPONT After a torrid 2019 in which the queen’s son Prince Andrew was implicated in an underage sex abuse scandal, many in Britain are again asking if the monarchy has gotten too big — and rich — for its own good. The family’s year to forget may encourage Prince Charles, set to eventually […]

China made overtures on trade to Japan and South Korea and offered support for an infrastructure initiative as it hosted the leaders of its two neighbours this week amid strained ties with the US. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Wednesday at a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that Beijing was willing to strengthen […]

A single woman in China has gone to court challenging rules that forbid unmarried women from freezing their eggs in the first case of its kind in the country. Teresa Xu said she was prompted to take legal action after a top hospital in Beijing declined to freeze her eggs last year, and instead told […]

The BJP-run Indian government’s rather precipitate promulgation of a controversial constitutional amendment that allows non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan to acquire Indian citizenship on easier terms has triggered rather strong reactions, including some violent ones, both within and outside India. The most obnoxious part of this amended law is that it clearly specifies […]