ENTERTAINMENT
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A video of a tearful six-year-old boy dancing goes viral and gets flak for the TV host who made him strut his stuff.
The asia! team
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The pop idol tweeted, "Can't stop crying watching this. This is why I make music. She is the future." But just who is she talking about?
The asia! team
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Communism no more: Beijingers are groovin' to swing music in an old bar at Sanlitun.
独臂老宋
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Movie synopses that Tinseltown may want to consider, as the city sprouts a host of new skyscrapers and landmarks
CLARISSA TAN
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The film portrayed silenced Muslim females shrouded in black, sentenced to shove one French fry at a time underneath their veil. Poor, hungry, Muzzy women.
KALSOOM LAKHANI
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Call it cheesy, but this latest TV hit does deserve praise for trying to reconcile Islamic ideals with modern culture.
ARWA ABURAWA
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A matchmaking show has become China’s top-rated TV programme, thanks in part to a now infamous participant who said she’d rather cry in a BMW than ride on a bike.
XUJUN EBERLEIN
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Our blogger, Indrajit Samarajiva, visits an adult film theatre in Colombo – and picks up some of the tricks of the trade. Yes, seriously.
INDRAJIT SAMARAJIVA
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This beautiful traditional Korean hairstyle may have been a pain in the neck.
KIM M
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The Takarazuka Revue has an all-female cast which gives kabuki’s all-male cast a run for its money.
GN
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How does art determine and shape a country’s national character?
GIBBS CADIZ
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Dae Jenggeum, the Korean TV serial about a 16th century royal physician that broke virtually all viewing records in Asia, has no sex, no violence and very little action.
LEE HAN SHIH
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Beijing may have pressured Chow Yun-Fat to return to the John Woo film "Red Cliff", raising questions of who he will replace.
LEE HAN SHIH
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