Visiting Thailand: A First Time Visitors’ Guide

Nicola Roberts has opened up on the heartbreaking loss of Sarah Harding, almost two years on from her death. The Girls Aloud star died in September 2021 from breast cancer and two years on from the star’s death, her bandmate Nicola has opened up on the grief she feels. Fighting back tears on Good Morning Britain, Nicola shared how she feels that Sarah’s death is “not really that real” to her, as she imagines she’s still out there enjoying life.

Liam Gallagher has adopted a rescue dog named ‘Buttons’ from a sanctuary in Thailand.The former Oasis member received praise after it was revealed that he contacted the Happy Doggo sanctuary in order to re-home the puppy who had been abandoned in the jungle for “not being cute enough” by its former family.In an interview with Sky News, dog rescuer Niall Harbison shared his shock when he found Gallagher’s name among the applications to adopt Buttons. At first, Harbison believed it may have been a friend pulling a prank or a wind-up of sorts but upon further inspection of the application, it turned out to actually be the ‘Stand By Me’ singer.A post shared by Liam Gallagher (@liamgallagher)“The name on the form was Liam Gallagher, but I thought that’s obviously not him,” he said. “Then the next line was occupation, and it was ‘singer’.

Gareth Edwards directed his first movie, the 2010 indie “Monsters,” it could scarcely have been a more DIY endeavor. He had less than $500,000 to tell an intimate story about two Americans contending with giant aliens rampaging through Mexico, so his crew consisted of just his actors (Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able), a sound tech, a line producer, a translator and a driver.

Troye Sivan is back with another new song from his forthcoming album Something to Give Each Other!

Coronation Street fans are in for some dramatic scenes in episodes set to air next week.

Corrie fans will be on the edge of their seats as Jenny Connor will turn her thoughts to Teddy Thompkins and she's given some shocking news.

The Rovers Return has been involved in a bit of a rollercoaster ride of late after Jenny Connor was forced to sell as the cost of living crisis bit the Weatherfield institution. But the beloved pub faces a sudden closure next week in Coronation Street, however, it's not what it seems.

A couple sold their home and quit their jobs to travel the world with their family after they became fed up with the “stressful” cost of living crisis. Chris and Tamira Hutchinson sold everything they owned, packed their bags and left for Thailand in May with their three daughters.

A couple who allegedly fled a Thai restaurant without paying their £76 bill have been branded 'scruffs' as the owners appealed for more information.

Disney’s Korean superhero thriller Moving heads the nominations for this year’s Asia Content Awards at Busan International Film Festival with nods in six categories, followed by Tencent Video’s The Long Season with five nods. 

VAV have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘Subcönscióus’ US tour.Today (September 12), organiser Studio PAV announced VAV’s upcoming 10-date tour of the US. The boybank will kick things off on the East Coast, with a show in New Jersey.Following that, VAV will head to Illinois and Florida, before playing a single show in the territory of Puerto Rico.

The story of the harrowing 1972 crash of the airplane carrying members of the Uruguay Rugby team in the remote snowy mountains of Argentina has been told cinematically a few times before. There was a rather crass version released in America as Survive! in 1976, and later a notable take on the story from director Frank Marshall called Alive through Disney studios and starring Ethan Hawke and others in 1993.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Identity, incomplete understanding and urban poverty are among the many themes touched upon in “Oasis of Now,” which is set to make its debut next month in the prestigious New Currents competition section of the Busan International Film Festival. The story revolves around a mother and a daughter who inhabit the invisible corners of an old apartment block in Kuala Lumpur. They meet in the stairwells, play furtive games and snatch moments of shared happiness, before slinking off to their separate homes.

Oscar-winning documentarian filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have made an entire career out of making nerve-wracking feats-of-athleticism documentaries like the incredible, Oscar-winning “Free Solo,” “Meru” and 2021’s “The Rescue,” about the death-defying race against time to rescue the boys trapped in the caves of Thailand that made international news. Naturally, given the intensity of their films, Hollywood has come knocking for them to try their hand at non-documentaries and dramas.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Kim Jee-woon’s black comedy “Cobweb,” which debuted this year at Cannes, is set for a U.S. theatrical release in early 2024.

Samuel Goldwyn Films has acquired U.S. rights to Korean filmmaker Kim Jee-woon’s Cobweb, starring Song Kang-ho, which had its world premiere Out Of Competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. 

EXCLUSIVE: Amid some uncertainty over the level of pre-sales business possible at Toronto and the AFM due to the strikes, a handful of packages are beginning to emerge.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The QCinema International Film Festival in the Philippines has beefed up its industry program by introducing a project market strand, QCinema Project Market (QPM). It acts as a networking and funding platform for Filipino and Southeast Asian projects in advanced development.

A heroic Scottish swimmer known as “The Merman” rescued a Spaniard drowning on a beach in Thailand.

EXCLUSIVE: It’s been less than 24 hours since One Piece debuted on Netflix, but the buzz surrounding the series already fairly strong.