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Lack of rating system is the real dirty laundry

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:50:11 GMT

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, the latest installment of the spy thriller franchise, grossed $15 million within two days of its Jan 28 China premiere. One of the online reviews is snarky: "I .....

More Chinese giving family a miss at CNY

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 03:24:47 GMT

By the second day of Chinese New Year, Yan Lili had had enough. She left her home town in central Henan's Luoyang city to head back to the provincial capital Zhengzhou, where she works as a financial .....

Rice ball ritual at That Phonh stupa

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:49:27 GMT

After giving alms in the early morning of the full moon day in February each year, devotees place balls of rice around the That Phonh stupa in Savannakhet province to honour the guardian spirits. T .....

Dragon lanterns spring into life

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:01:09 GMT

Awakening to the arrival of the spring season, many dragon lanterns are roaring to life as people in Taiwan start celebrating the upcoming Lantern Festival of the Year of the Dragon. Residents in the .....

Lo! Hei! That's my dish, not yours!

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:40:08 GMT

A plate of raw fish and julienned vegetables was all it took to reignite a 'food fight' between Singaporeans and Malaysians. Following food ownership debates over bak kut teh and Hainanese chicken ri .....

Tibet with a contemporary face

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:56:06 GMT

Say 'Tibetan art' and one imagines the traditional Buddhist scroll paintings known as thangka. However, an exhibition of contemporary paintings from the land of lamas aims to expand this idea. Titled .....

Raising the image of folk art

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:48:45 GMT

A farmer-artist in Henan has created a new folk art, cloth sculpture, which is based on traditional cloth painting but has raised patterned surfaces. He uses an electric iron and then begins to draw .....

Fortune-telling boom spells gloom for some

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:03:41 GMT

Every time Chinese New Year rolls around, housewife Lim Gek Poh makes it a point to take her husband and two children to the same fortune-teller in Waterloo Street. "Just before New Year is the best .....

Giving Jakartaâs madness meaning

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:42:17 GMT

Traffic jams, graffiti and street-signs are the motifs peppering the work of young Jakarta artists given the opportunity to vent their frustrations at the smog-choked city they call home. Patrons at .....

Korea to promote 3rd hallyu

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:20:51 GMT

With the worldâs attention continually shifting from one aspect of Korean culture to another, Korea should produce high-quality and consistent cultural products in the coming years by linking the ol .....

Hallyu and K-pop: the boundary blurs

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:09:54 GMT

For Girlsâ Generation fans, the year 2012 must come as an exciting one. Not only are they going to see their favourite hallyu singers on YouTube music videos and K-pop shows, but they are also goin .....

A master heist

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:15:51 GMT

Mark Wahlberg flexes his muscles by as a former professional smuggler, back in action to save his family. Back in 2008, the Nordic duo of Arnaldur IndriÃ°ason and Ãskar JÃ³nasson penned a thriller .....

Regatta: Preserving Brunei's history

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:43:00 GMT

Traditional regatta should be preserved as part of Brunei's history and for the sake of the future generations, said some senior citizens who were present during the Regata Brunei Darussalam 2012 yest .....

A Black Thai event in Dien Bien

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:22:03 GMT

My love affair with travelling to different parts of Vietnam has left a vast array of pleasant sensations within me. The 14-hour drive to Dien Bien was one trip that was beyond my imagination. I still .....

Enter the dragon

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:26:42 GMT

China's standing in the world is not shaped by the dragon, which in itself can evolve into any artistic manifestations artists see fit. Li Little Dragon. Becoming Dragon. Can you guess to whom the .....

Life in motion

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:05:41 GMT

John Neumeier, artistic director of the Hamburg Ballet, didn't expect to return to Beijing after his company toured the city for the first time in 1999. He was hugely disappointed by the facilities a .....

M'sian trader designs unique soaps for CNY

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:37:52 GMT

Here's a good, clean idea for a Chinese New Year gift a bar of soap. Not just any bar of soap, but hand-crafted soaps with messages of love. Soap crafter K.K. Goh said one could show their love and c .....

In the mood for cheongsam

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 04:37:52 GMT

Most women only wear cheongsam on Chinese New Year and for weddings, but there are a few who wear it often because they love its beauty and elegance. About 10 years ago, a movie starring Maggie Cheun .....

Uncertainty clouds Salman Rushdie participating in Jaipur LitFest

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 07:08:54 GMT

India-born controversial author Salman Rushdie's visit to this country to attend the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLT) is clouded in uncertainty as Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said here today .....

New audiences for old tunes

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:30:15 GMT

The first theatre dedicated to traditional Vietnamese music will open its doors next month in HCM City. "I dreamed of this theatre for a long time," said theatre founder Huynh Anh Tuan. "I noticed t .....

Hallyu bets on beauty, fashion to go global

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:30:15 GMT

Fashionistas around the world may soon be adding a new city to their list of fashion capitals alongside Paris, New York, London and Milan. With its up-and-coming designers and beautiful celebrities S .....

Korea's 'Dream High' is back, but is it better?

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:19:42 GMT

Now that the South Korean drama market has started to jump on board the multi-season series bandwagon, it seems there is no end to the trend. When KBSâ Dream High â a music-and-dance teen drama .....

'Show Brunei in art galleries abroad'

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:03:23 GMT

Works of Bruneian artists deserve to be seen in the international market to help the world to know more about the Sultanate, the Russian ambassador to Brunei said yesterday. There is "no reason for B .....

Asian art takes centre stage in Singapore

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 04:13:52 GMT

It was billed as a fair for Asia and it was Asian art which stole the show at Art Stage Singapore. The four-day art fair opened with a VIP preview last Wednesday and ended on Sunday. It drew 31,000 v .....

Manmade wonders

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:51:42 GMT

Chinaâs Guangdong province, the birth place of the Cantonese, is where you will find delights, old and new. Here are some of the destination highlights. Shenzhen Luo Hu Mall: This five-storey mal .....