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Famed Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away after half a century
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere.
Cannes film fest launches with veterans and zombies
AFP, Published on 17/05/2022
» CANNES, France: The red carpet is ready for the opening of the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday, with Oscar winner Forest Whitaker as the first guest of honour and a French zombie comedy to kick off proceedings.
Final touches for 75th Cannes film fest
AFP, Published on 16/05/2022
» CANNES: The last touches were being laid in Cannes on Monday for the 75th anniversary edition of the world's leading film festival, promising a return to its full glitz.
Cannes marks its 75th year in nostalgic form
AFP, Published on 12/05/2022
» PARIS: From Maverick to Bowie to Elvis, the Cannes Film Festival launches its 75th-anniversary edition on Tuesday with a roster full of icons from the last century.
Thai... caviar? Farm produces delicacy in tropical climate
Published on 14/04/2022
» At his upmarket Bangkok restaurant, Michelin-starred chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn spoons black caviar onto a plate, adding the newly affordable Thailand-made delicacy to his reinterpreted traditional family recipes.
Greece inspires Dior Cruise 2022 collection
Life, Published on 03/12/2021
» For Maria Grazia Chiuri, each collection is an occasion for establishing a link between a creative project, savoir-faire, and innovation. An opportunity to build a fecund environment, like an immense atelier where research into materials, techniques and production methods plays a major role. For the Dior Cruise 2022 collection -- which will be shown in the heart of the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens -- Maria Grazia Chiuri weaves an open dialogue with local ateliers and craftsmen, to discover and promote traditions that are intimately tied to places and families. She initiates exchanges with an emphasis on the processes of collective creation, at the junction of memory and cultural values to be handed down to younger generations.
Golden Globes to go ahead despite TV blackout over diversity row
AFP, Published on 16/10/2021
» LOS ANGELES: The Golden Globes will go ahead despite NBC's decision not to broadcast the Hollywood award ceremony over concerns about its record on diversity and transparency, organizers said Friday.
'No Time to Die' wastes no time topping US box office
AFP, Published on 12/10/2021
» WASHINGTON: "No Time to Die," the latest installment in the James Bond movie franchise, shot straight to number one in North America's box office on its opening weekend, netting $55.5 million, according to industry watcher Exhibitor Relations.
'Shang-Chi' leads N. America box office for fourth week
AFP, Published on 27/09/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Disney blockbuster "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," featuring Marvel's first leading Asian superhero, dominated the North American box office for its fourth weekend, taking in $13.2 million, industry watcher Exhibitor Relations said Sunday.
'Shang-Chi' leads N.America box office for second week
AFP, Published on 14/09/2021
» LOS ANGELES: Disney's "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," featuring Marvel's first leading Asian superhero, reigned supreme atop the North American box office for a second week running, taking in $34.7 million, figures showed Monday.