The musician dubbed the "Hong Kong Clapton" dies after taking ill while bringing in New Year in the former colony

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong cinema operators and filmmakers are crying for help following a government announcement on Monday that COVID-19 social distancing measures will remain in place until Feb. 17.

Machine Gun Kelly wowed a lot of fans with his first-ever appearance as a musical guest on e over the weekend — including his girlfriend, Megan Fox.Fox took to Instagram on Sunday to share a trio of snapshots showing herself and her rocker boyfriend outside 30 Rockefeller Center in New York, during the past " week" — meaning the last few days as Kelly rehearsed for his set.Fox had some high praise for Kelly's appearance on the episode, calling it the «best performance that show has ever seen

Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox are staying warm!

Vivienne Chow Hong Kong auteur Stanley Kwan will be featured as the filmmaker-in-focus at the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong-based boutique distributor Lightning International has acquired the U.K.’s documentary streaming service Docsville.Docsville was set up and launched in 2018 by award- winning documentary maker Lawrence Elman and Nick Fraser who had previously been a high-profile executive with the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Vivienne Chow Documentary feature “Inside the Red Brick Wall,” which chronicles one of the most dramatic chapters of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, bagged the best film at the 27th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.The best director prize went to Peter Chan Ho-sun for “Leap,” a sports drama based on the trajectory of China’s national women volleyball team.

Vivienne Chow Twenty-nine projects from across Asia have been selected to take part in March’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), which will go virtual for the second time.Scheduled to take place March 15-17, 2021, HAF will run concurrently with the Hong Kong FilMart. Both events were postponed last year to August due to the pandemic and eventually migrated online.They will return to their usual March slot this year in tweaked virtual format.

Vivienne Chow The Hong Kong government will provide another $361 million (HK$2.8 billion) to rescue city’s troubled Ocean Park, which has seen losses increased by the effect of COVID-19. The venture is to be transformed from a traditional theme park into a travel destination and marine conservation hub that can be financially self-sufficient.The park will receive a one-off injection of $251 million (HK$1.67 billion) as working capital.

A Hong Kong Internet service provider on Thursday said it had blocked access to a pro-democracy website to comply with the city’s national security law. In a statement emailed on Thursday, Hong Kong Broadband Network said that it had disabled access to HKChronicles, a website that compiled information on "yellow" shops that supported the city’s pro-democracy movement and released personal information and pictures of police and pro-Beijing supporters during anti-government protests in 2019.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong International Film Festival, delayed last year by the coronavirus outbreak, has announced plans to return to its normal Springtime slot.

A CNN reporter was accused Thursday of pushing China propaganda over a tweet linking the pro-Trump mob that stormed Capitol Hill to Hong Kong protesters acting in defiance of the Chinese Communist Party regime.  Following the violence that disrupted the certification of President-elect Joe Biden's election victory, CNN International correspondent Will Ripley juxtaposed an image of rioters climbing the exterior walls of the Capitol building with an image of protesters who crashed the Hong Kong

Lindsey Vonn has a new outlook in 2021. The former Olympic skier, 36, says she’s focused on herself this go-around.

donate to Kevin’s funeral fund page.A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “Around 2.30am on Friday, 1 January, 2021, police received report of a man having fallen on Shields Drive in Motherwell.“The man was conveyed by ambulance to Wishaw General Hospital, where he later died.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefU.S. President Donald Trump stepped up his actions against Chinese tech firms on Tuesday with the publication of an executive order targeting Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChatPay.The move pointed to a widening gulf between the western world still reeling from coronavirus and the chaos of the U.S.

murder of a man who died following a broad daylight New Year's Day attack.Stephanie Bowie, 26, is alleged to have knifed Darren Russell, 21, to death in Erskine, Renfrewshire.Prosecutors claim she "did stab him on the body with a knife or similar bladed article and did murder him" in the town's Park Drive, near to Park Moor.She also faces a second charge that she attacked Russell "on an occasion prior to and distinct from" the murder.It's alleged that, in the town's Park Moor, near to Barsail

after getting caught base-jumping from its rooftop bar on New Year’s Day. “The hotel immediately engaged local authorities, and the guests were subsequently evicted and banned from the hotel,” the Grand Hyatt said in a statement to Fox 17.Police are still searching for the perpetrators, both of whom safely parachuted down and swiftly took off in a strategically parked vehicle after the prank, which reportedly prompted “mass panic” among unwilling onlookers.

Jennifer Lopez took over New York’s Times Square station ahead of her New Year’s Eve performance.The Jenny From The Block hitmaker, who is due to appear on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest to ring in 2021 on Thursday night (December 31, 2020), posed inside a subway train and on the platform in a voluminous baby blue Balmain gown that featured an overflowing tulle skirt, a pair of knee-high glossy black stiletto boots, and a bedazzled cropped black blazer to film a segment

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe coronavirus outbreak caused a 72% slump in theatrical box office in Hong Kong last year. It also caused audiences in the city to embrace a more diverse selection of films, especially those from Asia.Hong Kong traditionally has one of the world’s highest per capita cinema attendance rates.

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