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China’s ‘Road Trip Auntie’ Is Ready for a New Milestone: Divorce
In the four years since she began driving solo across China, leaving behind an abusive marriage and longstanding expectations about women’s duties at home, Su Min, 60, has become an internet sensation known as the “road-trip auntie.”
Monday Briefing: The Democratic National Convention
The presidential election is less than 80 days away. This is what we’re watching.
Lights, camera, disruption: India’s storied cinema halls struggle under digital onslaught
“Running a cinema hall in India is no longer profitable,” Subramaniam told This Week in Asia, surveying the once-bustling lobby of his Sri Sakthi chain. His words cut to the heart of a seismic shift sweeping through the world’s largest film industry, which produces nearly 2,000 feature-length movies annually in 20 different languages. Across the country, cinema halls are closing at an alarming rate, repurposed as everything from apartment buildings to wedding venues.
French actor and heartthrob Alain Delon dies at 88
Alain Delon, the internationally acclaimed French actor who embodied both the bad guy and the policeman and made hearts throb around the world, died at age 88, French media reported.
On Anniversary of Taliban Takeover, Glee, Mourning and an Embrace of Jihad
The parade of cars rolled through Kabul from morning until night, clogging the streets in end-to-end traffic. Crowds of Taliban and their supporters lined the routes, chanting “God is great!” and “Long live the mujahedeen!” One truck dragged an American flag, a red X drawn across its stars and stripes.
‘Super Rich in Korea’ star David Yong granted US$759,000 bail in Singapore, faces fresh fraud charge
The star of the popular Netflix reality show Super Rich In Korea, David Yong, was granted bail set at S$1 million (US$759,000) on Thursday after being handed a fresh fraud charge.