The South Korean government said Sunday it will hold special screening and showcasing events at this year’s Cannes International Series Festival to promote Korean-made content to global media and producers.Three Korean TV and web series are invited to…
South Korea and Japan have agreed to boost tourism between the two nations amid their efforts to normalize their frayed ties, Seoul’s culture ministry said Saturday.Park Bo-gyoon, South Korean minister of culture, sports and tourism, met with his count…
Siem Reap province recorded 436,679 tourists in the first day of Khmer New Year holiday, the Provincial Tourism Department’s report showed on Saturday.Angkor Sankranta event being organised in the complex of Angkor Archeological Park, attracted the mos…
The music video for K-pop girl group BLACKPINK’s “Shut Down” topped 400 million views on YouTube on Saturday, its agency said.”Shut Down” is the main track of the four-member group’s second full-length album, “Born Pink,” released Sept. 16 last year.Y…
A wonderful aura reigns in the National Gymnastics Arena, which hosts the 7th Azerbaijan and Baku Championships among Age Categories in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics, the competition’s winner in the age category of pre-juniors (2011-2012) Albina Aliyeva …
The movies have returned to Indian-administered Kashmir after an absence of more than three decades. A new multiplex cinema, INOX Srinagar, lit up its three screens for the first time on September 30, almost 33 years after all of the region’s theaters shut down in the face of a campaign by armed militants opposed to cinemas, beauty parlors and liquor shops. Even today, the threat of violence remains high for the several dozen theatergoers who visit the multiplex each day, seeking a novel experience in the case of the younger generation or, in the case of their elders, a nostalgic
A military court in Myanmar’s Yangon region has sentenced a former doctor-turned-model to six years in prison for posting provocative content online deemed “harmful to Burmese culture,” prompting condemnation from lawyers and rights groups who called the punishment “unjust.” The Military Court of Dagon Myothit (North) Township on Tuesday ordered Nang Mwe San to serve a six-year jail term for publishing “sexually explicit” photos and videos online in violation of Article 33 (a) of Myanmar’s Electronic Communications Act and tarnishing the country’s cultural image. The sentence marks the first time that someone has been prosecuted under the act, which was
Country star Mickey Gilley, whose namesake Texas honky-tonk inspired the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and a nationwide wave of Western-themed nightspots, has died. He was 86.Gilley died Saturday in Branson, Missouri, where he helped run the Mickey Gilley Gra…
