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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs faces sex trafficking charges
Published on 17/09/2024
» NEW YORK - Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs faces three US federal charges of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking and transport to engage in prostitution, according to an indictment unsealed on Tuesday.
Pioneering performer and activist Harry Belafonte dies at 96
Published on 25/04/2023
» NEW YORK: Harry Belafonte, a singer, songwriter and groundbreaking actor who started his entertainment career belting out “Day O!” in his 1950s hit song before turning to political activism, has died at the age of 96.
Cortina ends 50th anniversary on a high
Life, Published on 09/12/2022
» Throughout 2022, eight leading brands celebrated Cortina Watch's 50th anniversary with their special editions.
The timelessness of art
Life, Noko, Published on 25/11/2022
» If Alex Trochut didn't have any digital tools, what would he do with pen and paper?
Showtunes delight TCC crowd
Life, James Keller, Published on 25/10/2022
» Conducting maestro Vanich Potavanich and the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra demonstrated most emphatically just how to fill every single seat of the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month.
Weinstein sex assault trial opens in Los Angeles
AFP, Published on 11/10/2022
» LOS ANGELES: Jury selection began Monday in the Los Angeles trial of disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, with five alleged victims expected to take the stand during the two-month case.
Bookish and traumatised: the real Marilyn Monroe comes to Venice
AFP, Published on 05/09/2022
» PARIS - Sixty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe is back in the limelight as the subject of the buzzy Netflix biopic 'Blonde', which premiers at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday.
Hong Kong bans film over one-second scene showing 2014 protest
Bloomberg News, Published on 12/08/2022
» Hong Kong censors have banned an award-winning animation from being shown over a one-second scene depicting the 2014 pro-democracy protests, local media reported, in the latest sign of free speech curbs in the finance hub.
MeToo film movement shifts from rhetoric to action
AFP, Published on 08/06/2022
» As the MeToo movement evolves, the film industry is seeking practical ways to ensure its opposition to harassment and abuse is translated into tangible improvements.
Graffiti artist follows his rebellious roots
Life, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/06/2022
» A daubed wall marks off a rundown area where makeshift houses were put up for rent, a stone's throw from a luxury condominium in the heart of Bangkok's Sathon. A 40-year-old man exits his car with pink luggage. He puts on a black hat and ties a small cloth around his head. He's wearing a long-sleeve checked shirt, shorts, and black sneakers and his socks are printed with cannabis patterns. Mue Bon, literally translated as "restless hands", opens his arsenal and begins to spray paint a rough sketch of the flightless black bird on the wall.