S.H.E.’s Ella Chen and her Malaysian husband, Alvin Lai held their lavish wedding reception at the Equatorial Hotel Malacca last night amidst tight security with a dozen RELA members and 10 bodyguards just to keep pressmen and fans at bay. Their ivory white-themed wedding banquet at the extravagantly decorated Dewan Melaka was attended by around 800 close family members and ...

There is an Irish proverb that goes like this : “Ni ceart go cur le cheile” which translates into “There is no strength without unity.” The proverb tells us that “united we stand, divided we fall”. Unity refers to the condition or state of being one. Unity is powerful.  A strand of string is easily broken. A rope is strong ...

It is a fact that most passengers do not pay any heed to flight security announcements and I personally am guilty of that. But that may soon change if flight attendants follow the example of AirAsia’s Quinton Dinesh Thomas. Tired of passengers not heeding the security announcements, Quinton decided to inject some humour into his routine security announcements. And he ...

31-year-old Taiwanese pop singer Ella Chen Chia-Hwa (陳嘉樺), a member of the girl group S.H.E., tied the knot yesterday at Le Méridien Taipei with her 36-year-old sweetheart Alvin Lai (賴斯翔 a.k.a 尔文赖) from Malaysia in a star-studded ceremony. The two have been dating for one and a half years.

When actress-host Vivian Lai, 36, kissed actress Kate Pang, 29, on the lips for one second when she was announced as one of the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes during Sunday’s live telecast of the Star Awards Show 2, she never expected that it would spark such a furore among Singaporeans. Apparently, many viewers find the kiss offensive. Many ...

I just got back to Miri this afternoon after spending the last two days in Kuching, savouring Kuching’s good food and meeting up with a few old friends whom I have not seen for decades. My eldest brother Tian and I flew to Kuching on Friday afternoon by Air Asia and we put up at the house of my second ...

An YouTube video of two-year-old William Stokkebroe dancing to the jive to Elvis Presley’s Jailhouse Rock has gone viral, garnering almost 4 million views, almost 16,000 likes and over 1,700 comments since it was uploaded about a week ago on March 15. Dressed in a checked shirt and jeans, William wows over the crowd by gyrating his hips, clapping, tapping ...

We often jump to conclusions based on our observations. What we see may not be the truth so it is really wrong to jump to conclusions based on just what we see. As bystanders look on in horror, an artist appears to leap off a building. He was actually just leaping on to one of his amazing 3D artwork. The ...

A phenomenon is sweeping through the US, China, Taiwan and many other parts of the world. It is called Linsanity. It all started with  Jeremy Lin. He now boasts more than 1.5 million followers on on Weibo and hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter and other social media sites.

An honorary doctorate is a high level academic honorary degree that an university confers to a recipient and exempts them from the normal requirements for that academic degree. The degree is given to honor the recipient and also benefits the university or degree-giving institution by association. Recipients’ qualifications may range greatly. They can have no relationship to the school, no ...