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Jisoo in a still from Newtopia.

K-drama

The 13 most anticipated K-dramas of 2025, from Two Women to Squid Game 3

K-pop stars IU and Jisoo, and actress Kim Min-ha, are among the stars of 2025’s most anticipated K-dramas, from Way Back Love to Newtopia.

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Britney Spears to be ‘very involved’ in biopic, director Jon M. Chu says

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Is Jeremiah Brent OK? Newest Queer Eye member on crying happy tears

11 Jan 2025 - 5:15PMvideocam

Can Hong Kong films top the successes of 2024 this year?

Academic Kenny Ng believes industry can continue to reinvent itself and build on momentum to produce wave of ‘human-centric’ films.

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Actors Louis Koo (left) and Raymond Lam Fung in Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In. Photo: Handout

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Pamela Anderson, star of The Last Showgirl, on being accepted as an artist

‘Who would have thought this would be the beginning of my career at 57 years old?’ Pamela Anderson, of Baywatch fame, is entering a new era.

11 Jan 2025 - 5:08AMvideocam

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Review | Remember What I Forgot: nostalgic tale of a Hong Kong cinema geek

Philip Keung and Fish Liew star in Keian Chui’s directorial debut that indulges the audience with memories of Hong Kong cinema.

10 Jan 2025 - 7:49PMvideocam

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K-drama

‘I feel much more loved,’ Lee Byung-hun says after Squid Game success

Lee, whose Front Man has a much bigger role in Squid Game season 2, says the Netflix series has brought him far more fame than Hollywood did.

10 Jan 2025 - 7:15PMvideocam

Lee Byung-hun as the Front Man in a still from the hit Korean drama Squid Game season 2. Photo: No Ju-han/Netflix

Entertainment

Who is the genius behind Philomena Cunk? Meet Diane Morgan

In her latest mockumentary series, Cunk on Life, Philomena Cunk is as deadpan as ever as she challenges experts with alternative facts.

10 Jan 2025 - 6:15PMvideocam

Entertainment

Exhuma, Twilight of the Warriors lead Asian Film Awards nominations

Both movies are up for best picture at the 18th Asian Film Awards, as are All We Imagine as Light, Black Dog and Teki Cometh.

10 Jan 2025 - 6:22PM

Entertainment

He wears it well: why Rod Stewart is still belting out the hits at 80

As rocker with the distinctive raspy voice turns 80, he can look ahead to upcoming tour dates and reflect on a near-60-year music career.

10 Jan 2025 - 3:15PMvideocam

British rock singer Rod Stewart celebrates his 80th birthday on January 10, 2025. Photo: AFP

Entertainment

Robbie Williams has always been a cheeky monkey. Better Man just proves it

‘My MO has been cheeky. What’s more cheeky than a cheeky monkey?’ asks Robbie Williams – who in biopic Better Man is a CG chimpanzee.

10 Jan 2025 - 11:15AMvideocam

Robbie Williams arrives for the 82nd Golden Globes in California. Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

Entertainment

Before Sunrise at 30: why Richard Linklater’s movie is so magical

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy star in this 1995 tale of strangers who meet on a train and spend a romantic evening in Vienna.

10 Jan 2025 - 4:55AMvideocam

K-drama

Love Scout: Han Ji-min, Lee Joon-hyuk in headhunting romcom K-drama

One of South Korea’s best headhunters hires an unflappable secretary in this romcom. It is frothy and fun, but will there be any substance?

9 Jan 2025 - 8:34PMvideocam

Chinese culture

Year of the Snake 2025 predictions for Monkeys, such as a big career boost

Monkeys can expect career advancements – especially if they work with women or are in a women-led industry – according to Chinese geomancy.

9 Jan 2025 - 5:27PMvideocam

Illustration: Victor Sanjinez

Entertainment

Lauded migrant actor in France who faced deportation gets work permit

Abou Sangare, an undocumented migrant who won a best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival, gains French work permit … as a mechanic.

9 Jan 2025 - 3:15PMvideocam

The star of Souleymane’s Story, Abou Sangare, at the Cannes Film Festival where he won a best actor award. Facin deportation, he has been granted a work permit in France. Photo: Instagram/@cineuropa.official

K-drama

Review | When the Phone Rings: formulaic K-drama follows all the tropes

This Netflix series slavishly sticks to Korean-drama stereotypes while including a clumsy, unnecessary allusion to the Israel-Gaza war.

8 Jan 2025 - 7:45PMvideocam

Entertainment

Review | Burning Blood: stars of Young and Dangerous back for awful police thriller

Jerry Lamb, Jason Chu, Jordan Chan and Michael Tse reunite in Wilson Chin’s posthumous final film that is just as bad as his others.

8 Jan 2025 - 6:45PMvideocam

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Reflections | The earliest Chinese lotteries, and a cheating operator’s gruesome death

Wee Kek Koon

11 Jan 2025 - 9:23AM

Reflections | Is God there? Yes, said China’s Confucius, but so what?

Wee Kek Koon

10 Jan 2025 - 12:02PM

Language Matters | Word of the Year 2024 choices around the world focus on the negative

Lisa Lim

29 Dec 2024 - 8:15AM

Reflections | Witch doctor arrests in Zambia and a witchcraft lie that ended a dynasty

Wee Kek Koon

10 Jan 2025 - 11:48AM

Opinion | To connect Hong Kong with the world, we must go beyond the superficial

Damien Green

26 Dec 2024 - 10:16AM

Opinion | How China’s reality TV shows reveal changing attitudes to marriage

Phoebe Zhang

19 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM

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Photo trove offers window on life in China’s wartime capital Chongqing

A man descends one of Chungking’s many stone staircases on a mule. Photo: A Danger Shared/Melville Jacoby

Behind the scenes of classic 1987 movie The Last Emperor in photos

Wu Tao, a Beijing born student who had never acted before, played Pu Yi at age 14. Peter O’Toole took the role as his tutor quite literally, and started teaching Wu some basic acting techniques beginning with their first scene together. Photo: Basil Pao

Wonders old and new in China’s Greater Bay Area, land of opportunity

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (HZMB) links Hong Kong to the western part of the Greater Bay Area. Photo: Huang Kunzhen

Instantly familiar, strangely foreign: photos of 1970s Hong Kong

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A herbalist at his shop, Hong Kong.

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