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Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda is back in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with his first South Korean film which explores the country’s controversial practice of “drop boxes” for unwanted babies. The movie is one of two South Korean pictures competing for the Palme...

John Lee was elected as the sixth-term chief executive designate of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region yesterday. The 64-year-old former chief secretary for administration of Hong Kong won 1,416 votes by Election Committee members in the first chief executive election in the city since the...