In January, we had music releases from GOT the Beat, NewJeans and Monsta X. In February, bands and artists such as BSS, Key and 11-piece group The Boyz will drop new songs and albums. READ SOURCE...
Most young, local Portuguese men in post-war Hong Kong with musical ambitions saw their dreams slowly extinguished by financial responsibility and marriage, but not radio legend Uncle Ray. READ SOURCE...
The Official Secrets Act, so an old joke runs, exists not to protect secrets but to protect officials. An overhaul of the UK’s espionage apparatus — the first since the Official Secrets Act was updated in 1989 — means this...
After spending six years and HK$450mn (US$58mn) on science fiction epic Warriors of Future, Hong Kong film star and avowed Star Wars fan Louis Koo hoped it would capture the imaginations of China’s millions of cinemagoers.But the film, about the...
Ringo Lam’s crime thriller City on Fire, starring Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee, was the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and a snapshot of 1980s Hong Kong. READ SOURCE...
More thinkers see positives in human extinction, from anti-humanists who want us wiped out for our environmental crimes, to transhumanists who welcome AI taking over. READ SOURCE...
Multi-season Korean dramas are no longer a rarity, and there are many to look forward to this year, including the second seasons of The Uncanny Counter and Taxi Driver. READ SOURCE...
Kim Hyun-joo explains why she agreed to a role in Netflix sci-fi film Jung_E, how streaming services are helping her push boundaries and when she will take a break from acting. READ SOURCE...
Wee Kek Koon once felt a need to stop using words Cantonese speakers in Singapore and Malaysia borrowed from other tongues, before realising they were linguistic markers of who he is. READ SOURCE...
It is easy to view the US government’s latest legal challenge to the power of Big Tech as a case of too little, too late. Years of almost negligent disregard from the trustbusters has allowed a handful of companies to...
