https://www.scmp.com/rss/329654/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Posting videos on social media of yourself dancing or lip-synching to music is a young person’s game. So the fact that Instagram dancing sensation Mimi Ison is 61 – and pulls off complicated, high-energy dance moves impressive in someone half her age – instantly sets her apart. Just as unusual is the Korean-American’s attitude to ageing, which she shares on @heymiddleage, an Instagram page that has amassed 467,000 followers since she started posting what she calls “midlife pro-age motivation”... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3276423/61-year-old-influencer-shows-how-age-well-viral-instagram-dance-videos?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3276423/61-year-old-influencer-shows-how-age-well-viral-instagram-dance-videos?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Aug 2024 23:45:08 +0000 In an age when “social media influencer” is one of the top career aspirations for young people, Owen Han is living a Gen Z dream. Dubbed “The Sandwich King” on TikTok and Instagram – where his @owen.han accounts have 4.3 million and 2.2 million followers, respectively – the 25-year-old American influencer is known for quick-cut, ASMR-style videos in which he assembles and then devours the most extraordinary-looking sandwiches. Many of his recipes are riffs on classics but informed by his Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/3266610/how-tiktoks-sandwich-king-lives-breathes-and-dreams-about-his-extraordinary-creations?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/food-drink/article/3266610/how-tiktoks-sandwich-king-lives-breathes-and-dreams-about-his-extraordinary-creations?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:15:11 +0000 At 63, Gym Tan is not your average social media influencer. The Singapore-born and once Hong Kong-based former fashion executive has become a poster girl for ageless chic on social media platforms Instagram and TikTok, where she has a combined following of more than 417,000. As @californiaistoocasual, Tan posts photos of herself in effortlessly stylish “outfits of the day” – often with daughter Mya Miller, 24, in a matching outfit by her side. Commenters marvel not just at her clothes – which... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3238586/63-influencer-and-shes-had-no-botox-no-fillers-meet-asian-tiktok-star-who-looks-effortlessly-ageless?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/health-wellness/article/3238586/63-influencer-and-shes-had-no-botox-no-fillers-meet-asian-tiktok-star-who-looks-effortlessly-ageless?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Oct 2023 00:39:51 +0000 There is no denying that the 2018 Hollywood romcom Crazy Rich Asians was a pop culture moment. The first Asian-led film backed by a major Hollywood studio since 1993’s The Joy Luck Club, it defied expectations to become a critical hit in the United States and elsewhere. This spawned countless breathless commentaries about how “Crazy Rich Asians is going to change Hollywood”, as one Time magazine headline declared. It also birthed several copycat reality series starring wealthy Asian Americans,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3208157/after-crazy-rich-asians-representation-hollywood-going-right-direction?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3208157/after-crazy-rich-asians-representation-hollywood-going-right-direction?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Jan 2023 03:00:25 +0000 The days of Hollywood executives cosying up to Beijing may be over. So thinks Erich Schwartzel, author of the book Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy, which looks at how Chinese investments in America’s soft-power behemoth have altered the power balance between the two nations. Realising the gold mine that China’s massive market represents for American films approved for release there, major US studios and filmmakers have bent over backwards to flatter –... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3190279/hollywood-used-bend-over-backwards-china-top-gun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3190279/hollywood-used-bend-over-backwards-china-top-gun?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Aug 2022 03:00:15 +0000 Singaporean cuisine has long been the darling of cosmopolitan, well-travelled foodies – including more celebrity chefs than you can shake a fork at, the late Anthony Bourdain its loudest champion. But despite this cachet – as well as Singapore’s Unesco heritage list status and the occasional Michelin star for its street food – the island’s polyphonic, melting-pot cuisine remains fairly niche abroad. Even in places with sizeable Singaporean expatriate populations – San Francisco, New York and... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3161635/can-singapore-cuisine-take-west-chinese-japanese-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3161635/can-singapore-cuisine-take-west-chinese-japanese-and?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Jan 2022 04:00:23 +0000 What’s in a name? For Kamala Harris, one of the few US politicians who has chosen a Chinese name for herself, it could mean an edge with Chinese-speaking voters. And this is on top of her appeal among Indian-American voters, for whom her Indian heritage could be a plus, according to polling research. The California senator and Democratic nominee for vice-president – the first Black woman and the first Asian-American on a major presidential ticket – is the daughter of immigrants, her father from... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3098517/whats-name-kamala-harris-maybe-edge-some-asian-american-voters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3098517/whats-name-kamala-harris-maybe-edge-some-asian-american-voters?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Aug 2020 21:00:18 +0000 As a coronavirus-fuelled recession looms, Asian economies are sitting on a powerful and underutilised engine of growth that could help them pull out of the downturn: female workers. Management consultants McKinsey & Company found that if Asia-Pacific economies advance women’s equality in the workplace it could mean an extra US$4.3 trillion or 12 per cent of their collective annual GDP over the next 10 years. This figure does not even assume full equality with men, merely that all countries meet... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3086013/women-workforce-can-fuel-asias-growth-post-covid-economy-says?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3086013/women-workforce-can-fuel-asias-growth-post-covid-economy-says?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 May 2020 23:45:14 +0000 Your average, not-so-hip adult would have probably drawn a blank at the mention of TikTok not long ago – unless they have a child addicted to the wildly popular app, on which users make and share short, amusing videos. It has grown explosively since its 2016 launch, with 800 million monthly active users now – 300 million of them outside China in places such as India (120 million) and the United States (37 million). And many have no idea it is owned by a Chinese company, ByteDance. The first... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3077323/tiktok-chinese-soft-power-time-bomb-us-living-rooms?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3077323/tiktok-chinese-soft-power-time-bomb-us-living-rooms?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:00:10 +0000 As Americans react to the spread of the coronavirus, it’s not just toilet paper and groceries being snapped up by panicked customers. It’s guns too. Stores across the US have in the past month recorded a surge in firearm and ammunition sales. Ammunition retailer ammo.com reported a 2.8 times sales rise on March 10.   Some gun shoppers in California and Washington, the states with the largest initial outbreaks, are Asian-Americans buying guns for the first time, as they observe a rise of... https://www.scmp.com/society/asian-americans-are-buying-guns-protect-themselves-during-coronavirus-pandemic/article/3076686?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/asian-americans-are-buying-guns-protect-themselves-during-coronavirus-pandemic/article/3076686?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2020 11:08:42 +0000 As Americans react to the spread of coronavirus, it’s not just toilet paper and groceries being snapped up by panicked customers. It’s guns too. Stores across the US have in the past month recorded a surge in firearm and ammunition sales. Ammunition retailer ammo.com reported a 276 per cent sales surge on March 10, as numbers of confirmed cases climbed in the US, while local media have reported long lines of people queueing outside gun stores. In California and Washington, the states with the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3076395/asian-americans-are-stocking-guns-protect-themselves?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3076395/asian-americans-are-stocking-guns-protect-themselves?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:00:16 +0000 For decades, it was a half-whispered rumor, another puzzle in the already considerable mythology surrounding Bruce Lee. In 1971, just two years before his death at the age of 32, Lee wrote a pitch for a TV show about a martial arts master in America’s Old West. But Hollywood studios turned it down, unsure of whether American audiences were ready for a Chinese lead. Later, Warner Bros. made a series called Kung Fu (1972-75), starring white actor David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/culture/bruce-lee-series-was-whitewashed-its-finally-going-tv-he-intended/article/3003204?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/bruce-lee-series-was-whitewashed-its-finally-going-tv-he-intended/article/3003204?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 25 Mar 2019 12:28:30 +0000 For decades, it was a half-whispered rumor – another puzzle piece in the already considerable urban mythology surrounding Bruce Lee. This murky tale involved a television show – one that Lee had longed to make but never got the chance to. Instead a studio made a similar sounding series – but with a white actor as the lead. It would have remained an unsubstantiated footnote in the life of the martial arts master and cultural trailblazer. But decades after his death in 1973, Lee’s daughter went... https://www.scmp.com/arts/bruce-lees-concept-tv-show-warrior-brought-life-his-daughter-and-justin-lin/article/3001832?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/arts/bruce-lees-concept-tv-show-warrior-brought-life-his-daughter-and-justin-lin/article/3001832?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Mar 2019 09:16:53 +0000 For decades, it was a half-whispered rumour – another puzzle piece in the already considerable urban mythology surrounding Bruce Lee. This murky tale involved a television show – one that Lee had longed to make but never got the chance to. Another strand is a studio allegedly making a very similar sounding series with a white actor as the lead. It would have remained an unsubstantiated footnote in Hollywood history meriting perhaps a few short paragraphs in a biography of the martial arts master... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3001657/how-bruce-lees-warrior-tv-series-was-brought-life-his-daughter-and-fast?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/3001657/how-bruce-lees-warrior-tv-series-was-brought-life-his-daughter-and-fast?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Mar 2019 22:00:07 +0000 It takes a certain kind of madness to try to climb a 900-metre (3,000ft) rock wall without a rope, then agree to the potentially fatal distraction of a camera crew shadowing your every move. If you saw the June 2017 headlines about the first “free solo” ascent of El Capitan – the granite giant that looms over California’s Yosemite National Park – you may remember this particular lunatic’s name: Alex Honnold. Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell smash Nose of El Capitan speed climbing record Free... https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2177655/free-solo-climber-alex-honnold-first-yosemite-national-park-ascent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2177655/free-solo-climber-alex-honnold-first-yosemite-national-park-ascent?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 12 Dec 2018 23:15:15 +0000