by AFP | Feb 10, 2020 | Art, Entertainment, people
Seoul (AFP) – South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho has been on quite a wild ride this awards season. That trip reached its climax Sunday when he made history with “Parasite,” the first non-English-language film ever to win a best picture Oscar. The film, a vicious satire about the widening gap between rich and poor, took home four Academy Awards — for best picture, best director, best original screenplay and best international feature after winning the Palme d’Or at Cannes, a Golden Globe and two Baftas.”We never write to represent our countries,” said the 50-year-old Bong. “But this is (the) ve… (more…)
by Jenny Zhao | Feb 10, 2020 | Culture, people, society
Central has a lot of pigeons, or as I call them, flying rats. These filthy creatures not only drop their faeces everywhere on the street, but also walk around on Jubilee and Douglas looking like they own the place.I usually curse if one takes off next to me, but that day as I heard the sound of sudden flapping by my side, my heart jumped and I shouted: “Phew! Thank God it’s you!”I was trying to make my way to the Central MTR station at 12:30pm on a Tuesday last November. I needed to go home, eat, pump breastmilk for my baby and go back to the office. That was my lunchtime routine … (more…)
by VOIZ asia | Feb 10, 2020 | people, sports
MIAMI — Alfredo De Los Santos was at his lowest point when Achilles International suggested he attempt a marathon. He had just lost his right leg in Afghanistan about eight months earlier. He tried to commit suicide twice since being hospitalized at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland. De Los Santos thought the pitch was some sort of cruel joke.“I was like, ‘What’s wrong with these people?’ De Los Santos said. ‘Can’t they see I’m missing a leg?’”Representatives from Achilles showed him the handcycle, though, and De Los Santos decided to give it a shot. He raced for the fir… (more…)
by AFP | Feb 10, 2020 | News, people
Nakhon Ratchasima (Thailand) (AFP) – Holding candles and writing condolences as monks chanted prayers, hundreds of Thais held an evening vigil Sunday for the 29 victims of an “unprecedented” mass shooting carried out by a soldier.Sharpshooters killed the gunman on Sunday morning after a 17-hour ordeal, including a night of firefights and terrifying dashes for mall exits by shoppers trapped in the Terminal 21 mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, also known as Korat.The provincial governor told reporters that the total death toll — including the gunman — stood at 30.The dead include civilians, one of th… (more…)
by Malaysiakini | Feb 9, 2020 | News, people
CORONAVIRUS | Reluctant to go outside for fear of catching the new coronavirus sweeping the Chinese city of Wuhan, Edward Wang found a lifeline: grocery delivery services provided by local retailers.But with hundreds of thousands of other people in Wuhan also stuck inside their homes doing the same thing, and retailers struggling to get hold of their staff, the service became overloaded.So for Wang, now in Canada after flying out of Wuhan on an evacuation flight, a daily ritual developed during his days on virtual lockdown in the city.At the turn of midnight, grocery stores would open up their… (more…)
by VOIZ asia | Feb 8, 2020 | people
PHILADELPHIA — In the breath between before and after, Anita Lewinski saw this was the end, and searched for her small goodbye. Their train had stopped at the gate of death.It was October 1944. They were Jews.The rail car had a window, by chance. Outside, the vast camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau sprawled across more than 400 acres of Poland’s southern countryside. Vacant eyes stared through barbed wire and barking dogs fought the leash. On the train, shock spread from face to face, reality replacing the long-whispered rumor.Anneliese Winterberg was just 15. She had blue eyes, her hair blond as cor… (more…)
