Keir Starmer claims SNP council failing Glasgow over 'waste crisis'

Rebecca Souw Producer and broadcaster JTBC has such a strong track record of making attractive and successful Korean TV drama series from tales of everyday lives that almost everything it does is likely to attract attention.

Rebecca Souw Global streaming giant Netflix has teamed with South Korea’s largest cinema chain CJ CGV to give theatrical releases to seven Netflix Original movies. The Korean-language titles will be given a limited 13-day run (Sept.

BTS have officially cancelled their Map of the Soul world tour, which has been in postponement limbo since April 2020.The announcement was made on Thursday (August 19) by their label Big Hit Music via a post on Korean web platform, Weverse.“Our company has worked hard to resume preparations for the BTS MAP OF THE SOUL TOUR, knowing that all fans have been waiting eagerly and long for the tour,” the statement read.“However, due to changing circumstances beyond our control, it has become difficult

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefAmerican cartoon giant DC Comics and South Korean talent agency HYBE have agreed to work with online animation firm Webtoon on content creation.Korea-based Webtoon is part of Asian internet giant Naver, best known for its Naver search engine functions and for the Line messaging app.

EXCLUSIVE: Once Upon a Time alum Lana Parrilla has been set to star alongside Anthony Rapp and writer-director Vivian Kerr in Scrap, an indie drama from producer Rachel Stander and her A Season of Rain banner. Beth Dover, Khleo Thomas, Brad Schmidt and Julianna Layne have also joined the cast of the pic, which is now shooting.

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have said they've been left "speechless" by the "layers of pain" over the situation in Afghanistan.The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have spoken out in a joint statement in reaction to the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan and the deadly earthquake in Haiti. Meghan, 40, and her 36 year old husband Prince Harry's statement was shared on their Archewell Foundation website.

Marta Balaga Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger, who won a Sundance best director award for “Cold Case Hammarskjöld,” expected a bigger fallout following the release of his latest film, “The Mole: Undercover in North Korea,” he admitted during his CineLink Talk at Sarajevo Film Festival.His documentary, focusing on two men embarking on a mission to expose the secrets of the Korean Friendship Association (KFA) and its Spanish president, is shown at the festival in the Dealing with the Past section,

ruled out working with the Nationalists at Westminster except on environmental issues and has previously insisted there is "no case" for Britain to rejoin the European Union in the future. But Kirsten Oswald said polling proved there remained widespread support among Scots for EU membership, with a survey carried out by Opinium in March finding 53% backed rejoining, once don't knows were excluded.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefComedy -action movie “Sinkhole” lifted the South Korea box office over the weekend with a $5.58 million start in theaters.The debut was the highest weekend score this year by a local Korean movie and trailed only “Black Widow” and “F9.” It was achieved from a launch on 1,604 screens according to data from the Korean Film Council’s Kobis tracking service.The disaster film was the second directed by Kim Ji-hoon, who previously made another in a similar vein “The

The Walt Disney Company announced today at the company’s Q3 earnings call that Disney+, its streaming service, will launch in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November 2021.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefStreaming platform Disney Plus will be expanded to begin operations in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan in November this year.The announcement was made on the sidelines of Thursday’s Walt Disney Co. third quarter earnings filings.The current Disney Plus service in Japan will be expanded to feature additional general entertainment content in October 2021.

Scottish Parliament in May, insists The Stand Comedy Club - which has branches in Edinburgh and Glasgow - won't hire him because he's "anti-woke". The famous club was co-founded by current SNP MP Tommy Sheppard in 1995 and is a major venue at the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival, hosting dozens of famous names over the years.In response, The Stand said Kearse simply wasn't funny enough to get bookings.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefProducer Lynda Obst (“Interstellar,” “Hope Floats”) and Miky Lee (executive producer of “Parasite”) have joined forces to tap into the Korean music wave. They will produce “K-Pop: Lost in America,” a feature-length road movie to be released in 2023.The CJ ENM production has tapped JK Youn, director of two of the biggest Korean movies of all time, to helm the project.

SNP-led city council has been blasted for its record on waste, but John Mason said it was “not sustainable” for local authorities to solve the issue on their own.Labour MSP Pauline McNeill hit out: “The city is in the midst of a waste crisis because of failures by the SNP Council and years of cuts from the SNP government – it is shameful to try and pin the blame on residents."Glasgow council, led by the SNP’s Susan Aitken, has been on the receiving end of criticism over pictures showing piles of

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Escape From Mogadishu” held on to its place at the top of the South Korean box office for the second weekend. It comfortably overcame the challenge from newly released “The Suicide Squad.”“Mogadishu” earned $4.26 million in its second weekend of release, down only 14% compared with its first session, in which it took $4.96 million.

Jamie Spears is claiming that Jodi Montgomery, personal conservator to his daughter, Britney Spears, has expressed concern over the pop star's behavior and mental health. In new court docs obtained by ET, Jamie alleges that he received a call from Jodi on July 9, in which she sounded very distraught, and voiced her concerns about Britney's recent behavior and her refusal to listen to or even see her doctors. In a sworn statement to the court, Jamie said, «Ms.

Labour Party leader made separate visits to Scotland yesterday and will continue their tours today. Both leaders will tour renewable energy projects three months ahead of the international climate gathering.Global leaders will attend the summit, to be held from October 31 to November 12, in what is seen as a critical moment for the future of the planet.

Cambo oil field near Shetland on environmental grounds. Starmer was in Glasgow yesterday ahead of the city staging the crunch COP26 international summit on the climate crisis.