12 Aug 2012

The 42-year-old stand-up comic talks to Peter Simpson about the language of humour and being funny in the head.

7 Oct 2012

The photographic work of Ho Fan is a stark reminder of old Hong Kong.

21 Oct 2012

The country had no filmmaking culture under Gaddafi; just a propaganda machine. Days after a film sparked violence across Libya, Steve Rose witnesses the budding of a national cinema.

30 Sep 2012

Fifteen years after she stepped out of the spotlight to focus on her family, Indian film star Sridevi returns with a new movie. P. Ramakrishnan meets the Bollywood legend.

27 Sep 2012

Shiny, matte or stained — autumn’s perfect pout is bold, bright and bursting with colour.

For many young Vietnamese, the long, arduous trek to a 'dream job' in a European or North American beauty salon is a taste of the life that awaits them, writes Simon Parry.

The Year of the Snake hit the city with a bang last night with 4.5 tonnes of explosives fired off in the fireworks display above Victoria Harbour. About 340,000 people watched the fireworks at the...

The Grammy Awards gave their top honour to British roots music band Mumford & Sons for their album Babel on a night that distributed honours to an array of younger acts including New York...

Iran hostage crisis drama Argo won the best film prize at Britain's Bafta awards in a further boost for US actor-director Ben Affleck's movie ahead of the Oscars later this month.

“Looking for Leehom” has become the latest trending term among China’s netizens, thanks to a joke made on the nation’s most viewed television programme.

When The Avengers hit theatres in China last May, the same weekend it opened in the US, moviegoers there were bombarded with advertisements featuring Iron Man and the Incredible Hulk. Chinese...

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