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LOS ANGELES – Steve Jobs’ life will be brought to the big screen by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin in a movie based on Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the enigmatic co-founder of Apple, maker of iPods and iPads. Sony Pictures Entertainment on Tuesday unveiled plans to put Sorkin, who wrote Facebook film “The Social Network,” [...]

US pop singer Lady Gaga has received the dubious honor of becoming the first foreign artist to be denied a concert permit by Indonesian authorities. Despite the long string of concert cancellations over safety concerns, Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday that his force’s decision not to recommend that [...]

We all know how make-up can transform a person – which is why the Oscars has a category for best make-up each year. Then, there are shows like Jerseylicious, which show how out-there a smokey eye can get. But, now, the art of make-up is all the more accessible, thanks to YouTube beauty gurus, who [...]

Andy Lau has finally broken his silence on his newborn baby. The Hong Kong Heavenly King made an official announcement on his fan club site on Monday evening, confirming the birth of his daughter. He also revealed that his Malaysian wife Carol Choo has been discharged from the hospital and arrived home with the baby. [...]

The newspaper also reported Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau finally confirming the birth of his baby girl through his official fan page on Tuesday. “(They are) discharged today. (We) have reached home. Thanks for all the blessings. Mother and daughter are healthy. Happy!” Lau posted online. Lau also said he was trying to be a [...]

SINGAPORE – Guerilla Collective is one breakdance group you are likely to meet if you walk through the underpass to get to Esplanade from Raffles City. There are many groups of b-boys and b-girls (as they are popularly known) practising flashy dance moves and gravity-defying flares and flips here in Singapore. But only one of [...]

TOKYO – Donald “Duck” Dunn, the bass player with Booker T and the MGs who helped shape the sound of the Memphis soul scene in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Tokyo at the age of 70. Dunn died in his sleep in a hotel room in the Japanese capital on Sunday after performing [...]

Handsome. Hot. Hunky. There’s no doubt that these words describe MediaCorp actor Elvin Ng, but “a mummy’s boy”? Definitely, says the man himself. Ng, 31, declares: “I’m a mummy’s boy and I’m proud of it. “She takes care of all my needs, from settling the bills to running errands. I just leave everything to her.” [...]