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...This story has been amended to correct the name of the Singapore home affairs minister K Shanmugam...
...Lee Jae-myung, the leader of South Korea’s leftwing opposition Democratic party, has accused the conservative government of harming the country’s economic and security interests by siding too closely with...
...Later Gypsy Rose Lee, a phenomenally successful burlesque entertainer of the 1930s and ’40s, wore fishnets as costume, as did pin-up Bettie Page in the 1950s....
...“Cho was like the original K-pop idol, with looks, intelligence and morality on his side,” said Lee....
...Putting the filmmaker Spike Lee in front of the camera alongside basketball star Michael Jordan, for example, came to Riswold and his producer when they noticed Lee’s character in She’s Gotta Have It refused...
...Helen MacNamara, deputy cabinet secretary between 2020 and 2021, said Johnson believed the UK would “sail through” and told those around him to “be careful of overcorrecting in advance of something that...
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...“We expect 2024 to be a more challenging year than 2023,” said OCBC chief Helen Wong during Wednesday’s earnings briefing. “Would there be upside?...
...Here too are the decisive moments: Henri Cartier-Bresson’s exquisite street photography and shots by Marc Riboud, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Vivian Maier, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Lee Friedlander and...
..., just before Lee’s death) into To Kill a Mockingbird....
...Enigmatic figures loom out of the encroaching darkness, smirking officials confront Josef K — GPT-4’s chapters have the sagging earnestness I’ve come to associate with AI imitations of human authors....
...Hybe, the South Korean music agency behind global superstars BTS, has nominated its own staff as candidates for the board of SM Entertainment, as a battle to take over the K-pop juggernaut heats up....
...“I took references from TikTok trends, K-pop idols, role-playing, and ‘VTubers’ [who live-stream as digital avatars]. It provides a very rich palette to play with.”...
...But Vyas-Lee warns: “The fallout of not doing that will cost you.”...
...Since then, the sweet-voiced, intricately inked Yaweh has been taking flight on his own terms, releasing a flurry of tracks, remixes and collaborations with acts that span hip hop to K-pop....
...Helen MacNamara, deputy cabinet secretary between 2020 and 2021, last month said Number 10 under Johnson was “toxic”, “macho” and “contaminated by ego”....
...few crowd-drawing perennials — Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”, for instance — never budge, but periodically one Rauschenberg displaces another, or a whole flock of Helen...
...Last week, Lee Soo-man and Hybe chair Bang Si-hyuk issued a joint statement promising to grow both companies so as to “enhance K-pop’s global competitiveness” and to pursue Lee’s vision of establishing K-pop...
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...Market leader Hybe, the company behind megastar boy band BTS, last week bought 15 per cent of its main rival SM Entertainment from the country’s best-known K-pop impresario, SM founder Lee Soo-man....
...In a WhatsApp message to Lee Cain, then Downing Street’s head of communications, in October 2020, weeks before England’s second lockdown, Johnson wrote: “I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of...
...On Thursday, Hybe proposed seven new candidates for SM’s board of directors, amid longstanding shareholder concerns about Lee Soo-man’s influence over the K-pop agency....
...Helen MacNamara, deputy cabinet secretary between 2020 and 2021, last month said his Number 10 was “toxic”, “macho” and “contaminated by ego”....
...Coach K’s (and Sydney’s) wisdom is yours for £14.99/$18.99....
...The most surprising appearance, though, is that of male actor Kim Jun-soo as mythological beauty Helen....
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