https://www.scmp.com/rss/501126/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com K-pop fans are trending on Twitter again, this time calling for boy band GOT7’s upcoming concerts in Hong Kong to be cancelled over fears for the safety of their pop idols, particularly Hong Kong-born Jackson Wang. Ahgases, the band’s fan base, went online on Wednesday to urge GOT7’s management company JYP Entertainment to cancel the concerts on August 31 and September 1. The Twitter hashtag started trending worldwide, with an estimated 300,000 tweets. Why Singaporeans don’t get the Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3022811/k-pop-fans-call-got7-concerts-hong-kong-be-cancelled-over-fears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3022811/k-pop-fans-call-got7-concerts-hong-kong-be-cancelled-over-fears?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Aug 2019 11:19:36 +0000 The loyal BTS fan base BTS Army has found a creative way to defend and support one of its beloved K-pop idols after an online backlash over his apparent weight gain. #YoongiWeLoveYou is trending worldwide on Twitter after BTS member Suga was accused of “not looking like an idol”. K-pop band BTS praised for cholinergic urticaria admission On August 12, netizens started commenting on photos posted on Nate, a Korean website, which appeared to show that the 26-year-old band member had put on some... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3022652/bts-army-rallies-behind-suga-after-south-korean-netizens-mock-k?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3022652/bts-army-rallies-behind-suga-after-south-korean-netizens-mock-k?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:54:40 +0000 Since protests against Hong Kong’s extradition bill began in June, student Rustam Juraev’s parents have been calling him from Tajikistan three times a day to make sure he is safe. “Each time my parents see the news, they call me to make sure I’m fine. They call me three times a day to check on me and warn me to avoid crowds and stay away from protests, ” said the 18-year-old who is studying applied economics at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). The weekly protests, which on some occasions had... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3020232/hong-kongs-central-asian-students-feel-heat-extradition-bill?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3020232/hong-kongs-central-asian-students-feel-heat-extradition-bill?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:45:07 +0000 In the early hours of June 9, a Chinese-registered ship struck the Philippine vessel F/B Gimver 1, sending all 22 Filipino fishermen aboard tumbling into the sea. The boat, from China’s southeastern Guangdong province, fled the scene – leaving a passing Vietnamese ship to rescue the men. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said he was open to China’s suggestion to conduct a joint probe into the affair, even as he dismissed it as a “little maritime incident” where “there was damage but... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/3016060/duterte-wants-joint-manila-beijing-probe-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/3016060/duterte-wants-joint-manila-beijing-probe-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Jun 2019 14:29:40 +0000 Prime Minister Narendra Modi practised various yoga poses alongside an estimated 40,000 people at an event on Friday to mark the fifth International Yoga Day in India’s eastern city of Ranchi. “We have to take the yoga movement to the next level … Diseases make the poor person poorer. We have to take yoga from the cities to the villages, to the jungles, to the poor and the adivasis (tribal people),” Modi told the gathering, adding, “Yoga belongs to everyone and everyone belongs to yoga.” The... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3015600/narendra-modi-and-indians-stretch-bend-mark-international-yoga?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3015600/narendra-modi-and-indians-stretch-bend-mark-international-yoga?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:15:01 +0000 Abdul Patient was only 12 when his mother’s tribe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was murdered by his father’s over a long-running feud between Congolese and Rwandans. He fled with his younger brother and slept in a cinema for four years before arriving at the Kakuma refugee camp, one of the largest in Kenya with some 190,000 residents. “Being a refugee, our life is like a movie – it has a lot of challenges,” he said. Patient, now 27 years old, knows a thing or two about making films.... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3015420/its-miracle-be-hong-kong-refugees-tale-1-70m?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3015420/its-miracle-be-hong-kong-refugees-tale-1-70m?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Jun 2019 23:00:07 +0000 Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has defended the palm oil industry, accusing Western countries of double standards on the environment. European competitors had “invented” the idea that the palm oil industry adversely affected the ecosystem, Mahathir, 93, told the Cambridge Union in Britain on Sunday. He said biofuel competitors from Europe and elsewhere had made up the claims out of jealousy because palm oil was the cheapest and most versatile edible vegetable oil. ‘Chinese by nature... https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3014902/malaysias-mahathir-mohamad-blasts-britain-over-palm-oil?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3014902/malaysias-mahathir-mohamad-blasts-britain-over-palm-oil?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 17 Jun 2019 12:24:47 +0000