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In an effort to boost tourism, Hong Kong’s government will give away half a million free airline tickets this year to attract travelers back to the city. The Hong Kong Tourism Board launched the new global promotional campaign on Thursday, announcing plans to offer 500,000 free air tickets to tourists and local residents. The airfare, which […]
A boyband concert came to an abrupt halt after a giant monitor fell on to the stage, resulting in multiple injuries. According to the Associated Press, the incident took place Thursday night in Hong Kong during a performance by the popular Cantopop group Mirror. The horrifying moment was captured on a now-viral video, which showed a suspended […]
A California man is facing decades behind bars for his alleged involvement in illegal wildlife trade. According to the Justice Department, 30-year-old Jose Manuel Perez—aka “Julio Rodriguez”—was arrested last month after he tried to smuggle dozens of reptiles from Mexico into the U.S. Federal agents say the Oxford resident was stopped at the border, and was found with […]
China’s national health authorities have reported the first two COVID-19 deaths in the country since January 2021, NBC News shares. The deaths were reported Saturday, in the northeastern Jilin province, amid an omicron-related surge in COVID cases. Now, China’s COVID death toll sits at 4,638. Jilin has issued a travel ban as China reported 2,157 total new COVID cases […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets A Change.org petition was started last month seeking to rename a Florida county honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee to Bruce Lee, […]
Futura, a.k.a. Futura2000, is back in Hong Kong in celebration of his new creation: a rocket ship by the name of X-6000. The piece made its debut this month at FUTURALAND, a public installation and dynamic temporal retail execution crafted in collaboration with the creative studio AllRightsReserved. FUTURALAND—organized and curated by AllRightsReserved in partnership with […]
A 90-year-old woman was defrauded out of $32.8 million dollars in what was believed to be Hong Kong’s biggest phone scams. CNN reports the scheme began in August 2020, when the unidentified nonagenarian received a phone call from people posing as Chinese officials. The scammers reportedly told the woman her identity was being used in a money laundering […]
The pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand are looking to leverage their fight against China by boycotting Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan. The controversy was sparked when the film’s lead actress Liu Yifei showed support for the Hong Kong police and condemned the region’s protesters via the Chinese social media site Weibo in August 2019. “I also support Hong Kong […]
Another person in the U.S. has contracted coronavirus—this time in Rhode Island. This marks the first possible case of the virus in that state, the New York Post reports. The Department of Health has said that the infected person is someone in their 40s who will have to be confirmed positive by the Centers for […]
Lupita Nyong’o was announced last year as a star in the remake of 1989 Hong Kong action-thriller The Killer. John Woo has now said that’s no longer the case. Woo, who directed the original film and will helm the Americanized remake, explained at the Hawaii International Film Festival that “scheduling” issues are to blame for Nyong’o’s departure. […]
