Cate Blanchett to head Cannes festival jury
PARIS: Cate Blanchett, the double Oscar-winning actress leading a Hollywood campaign to tackle sexual harassment in the workplace, will head…
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Indian pilots grounded after ‘mid-air row’
MUMBAI: An Indian airline said Thursday it had grounded two pilots over allegations they had a fight and both briefly…
China box-office back to strong growth in 2017
China’s box-office revenues surged in 2017 after slowing sharply the preceding year, official media reported, as the world’s second-largest movie…
Old Shanghai neighbourhood shivers in winter
Amidst the skyscrapers of a modern Chinese metropolis, the city’s oldest neighbourhood shivers through the winter thanks to an old…
S. Korea’s Park ‘took money from spy agency’: Reports
Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye is to be charged with accepting millions of dollars worth of bribes from the…
Migrant worker evictions tear at Beijing’s backbone
They fuelled their nation’s dramatic economic rise, toiling in jobs far from home, but China’s migrant workers are now finding…
48 killed after bus plunges 100 metres down cliff in Peru
LIMA: A bus plunged over a seaside cliff in Peru on Tuesday, killing at least 48 people after a collision…
North Korea reopens border hotline
Washington downplays high-level talks, urges Pyongyang to abandon nuclear weapons SEOUL: North Korea reopened a long-closed border hotline with South…