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Urgent police appeal to find missing woman who vanished several weeks ago

Jessica has a birth mark on one shoulder and a tattoo of Ying and Yang on the other arm

Manchester Evening News

3 South Koreans who swindled B1.6bn to be sent home

Police have arrested three South Korean nationals suspected of fraud causing losses of 1.6 billion baht in their homeland and will extradite them.

Bangkok Post

Rural residents worry for elderly as COVID rips across China

In a busy village clinic in Lezhi county in southwest China's Sichuan province on Thursday, 59-year-old Yang waited anxiously as her husband received an intravenous drip in the adjacent room.

Reuters

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China's healthcare system put to the test as COVID-19 curbs fade

Beijing's abrupt COVID policy shift, while cheered by some, has also sparked apprehension in the country where there is a relatively low vaccination rate and people have been taught to fear the disease.

ABC News

It’s a wrap: Favourite films of 2022

From action-packed blockbusters to exciting indie releases, film reviewer Penelope Debelle shares her top films from the past 12 months.

The New Daily

China's healthcare system put to the test as COVID curbs fade

When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding in northern China, he braced for a five-day quarantine at a makeshift local hospital as part of the country's strict pandemic controls.

Reuters

Excitement, defiance for young Chinese in COVID 'tipping point' protests

When Yang, a Shanghai office worker, saw video clips of a burning building in western China, a disaster in which 10 people were killed, she said she could not contain her anger over tough COVID-19 measures three years into the pandemic.

Reuters

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Top influencers on China's version of TikTok are twin brothers with over 100m followers

Twin brothers who star in their own video skits about daily life have become the most popular influencers on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, amassing more than 100 million followers in four years.

Bangkok Post

‘Next, I’m playing a human being’: Justin H Min on ghosts, androids and the power of silence

After his role as a lovable ghost in the Netflix superhit The Umbrella Academy, Justin H Min now stars as an android in After Yang. But informing these nuanced performances are some very real human life experiences, as Aaron Hicklin finds out

The Guardian - UK

'He makes people's lives better' - Cherished Hexham Hospital Cat wins PDSA commendation

Yang Bell is Hexham General Hospital's unofficial mascot, lending his calming presence to patients at the doors of the hospital

Chronicle Live

Bhowneesh Mendiratta earns India's first 2024 Paris Olympics quota place in shooting

NEW DELHI: Bhowneesh Mendiratta earned India's first 2024 Paris Olympics quota place in shooting, after he finished a commendable fourth in the men's trap competition at the ongoing ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Osijek, Croatia.

The Times of India

From Don’t Worry Darling to Peaky Blinders: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Enthralled by Harry Styles? Thrilled by dancing flat-capped gangsters? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

After Yang review – what to do when your AI robot child goes wrong?

Kogonada’s enigmatic sci-fi drama channels Charlie Kaufman and Philip K Dick as Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner Smith try to fix the faulty AI bot they bought for their adopted daughter

The Guardian - UK

Defiant Laoximen residents cling to homes as Shanghai's former cultural centre is redeveloped

One of Shanghai's oldest neighbourhoods is barely clinging to life as the city presses ahead with demolition and redevelopment plans.

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The Guardian - UK

Taiwan kidnapping charges over botched marriage proposal dropped

Prosecutors decide woman bundled into suitcase and driven off in car boot was surprise gone wrong

Benzinga

Yang Guofu Tempts Investors with Spicy Hotpot IPO in Hong Kong

Key takeaways: • Leading Sichuan-style hotpot chain Yang Guofu has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, extending a recent series of restaurant listing applications • Company has expanded rapidly using a franchise model, but poses investor risk due to its nature as a family-run business

Chicago Tribune

‘After Yang’ review: Showtime’s exquisite bit of futurism with Colin Farrell asks what androids really dream of

They’re known as “techno-sapiens.” In order to raise their adopted Chinese daughter, a struggling Anglo tea shop owner and a Black businesswoman — married but growing ever-more-faintly distant from each other — go to a discount retail outlet known as Second Siblings and buy a used techno, a companion wired…

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'After Yang' a uniquely contemplative exploration of grief, loss

In Kogonada’s directorial debut, “Columbus,” he explored the “modernism of the soul,” through the architecture of Columbus, Indiana, and the unique connection between two strangers seeing each other, and themselves, against the backdrop of the environments they share. In his second feature film, “After Yang,” Kogonada once again takes up…

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Chicago Sun-Times

‘After Yang’: A child’s robot crashes, and revelations result

Thoughtful and nicely unsettling, sci-fi film finds meaning in the memories of an automated companion.

Tribune News Service

China tries to quell ‘chained mother’ scandal marring Olympics

China is stepping up efforts to ease broad public anger over a mother of eight children who was found chained by the neck in a shack after local authorities were accused of downplaying the matter.

France 24

Video of Chinese mother chained by her neck sparks outrage

Chinese social media has blown up over a horrific video showing a mother of eight chained by her neck to the wall in a dirty home, apparently because of “mental issues”. Since the video first emerged on January 26, Chinese authorities have released few details on the woman’s fate.

Caixin Global

Xuzhou authorities were quizzed on why more hadn’t been done to help the woman, who was previously hospitalized with mental illness

Inverse

'After Yang' review: A24 just made the first great sci-fi film of 2022

Elevated by Colin Farrell's aching performance and its meditative look at life, loss, and memory, Kogonada’s second film is another transcendent marvel of insight.

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