Month: April 2022

HONG Kong filmmaker Daniel Lee’s martial arts epic “Song of the Assassins” is being screened on the streaming platform iQiyi’s Cloud Cinema, with a few other releases drawing a substantial online crowd. Starring Feng Shaofeng and Hu Jun, the film is adapted from Yuan Taiji’s online...

WHILE the coronavirus continues to hamper movement in Shanghai for the sixth week, Chinese artists have stepped forward in support of the pandemic fight. Producer and actor Yang Zi and his actress wife Huang Shengyi have teamed up with the China Siyuan Foundation for Poverty Alleviation...

In baseball-mad South Korea teams of professional cheerleaders pumping up players and fans with elaborate K-pop routines are as integral to the games as beer and fried chicken. Imported by American missionaries more than 100 years ago, baseball is South Korea’s most cherished spectator sport, beating...

Frenchman Benoit Paire’s preparations for next month’s Australian Open have been dealt a body blow after he revealed he has again tested positive for COVID-19. The 32-year-old, a former top-20 player, was forced to pull out of the 2020 US Open after testing positive. The following...

Novak Djokovic has pulled out of this week’s ATP Cup in Sydney, organizers said yesterday, heightening doubts over whether he will defend his Australian Open title. There has been intense speculation as to whether he will travel to Australia, having refused to confirm if he has...

LeBron James said he had no response to National Basketball Association great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who criticized the Los Angeles Lakers forward for a social media post in which he appeared to question the difference between COVID-19 and the flu and common cold. James had posted an...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta will sit out Saturday’s English Premier League game at home to Manchester City after testing positive for COVID-19, the London club said yesterday. Arsenal is fourth in the table on 35 points after 19 games, 12 points behind leader City. “Mikel is...

Several international flights to Shanghai have been suspended for two weeks by China’s civil aviation regulator following an increasing number of imported COVID-19 cases. China Eastern Airlines’ Flight MU588 from New York to Shanghai, Spanish carrier Iberia’s Flight IB2821 from Madrid to Shanghai, and Ethiopian Airlines’...