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Two dancers have been injured at a Cantopop concert in Hong Kong after a massive video screen suspended above the stage fell on to performers below.The concert on Thursday, by Cantopop boyband Mirror, was the fourth of a series of 12 scheduled concerts by the band held at the Hong Kong Coliseum.Video clips circulated on social media showed Mirror members Anson Lo and Edan Lui performing with a dozen dancers on stage when one of several suspended LED screens above the stage came crashing down.The falling screen appeared to…

Photo: Anthony Kwan (Getty Images)New research claims that Hong Kong’s covid-19 contact tracing app has a host of security problems that could expose sensitive user data. The city’s response: We don’t know what you guys are talking about. The Hong Kong government launched the LeaveHomeSafe app in November of 2020 to help track and combat the pandemic. Available for iOS and Android, the app collects information on a user’s location as they travel around the city, culling the data from barcode scans at local restaurants.…

HONG KONG—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will pursue a primary listing of its stock in Hong Kong, hedging its bets as regulatory pressure on Chinese companies grows on both sides of the Pacific. The move comes as Beijing and Washington remain at loggerheads over the audits of U.S.-listed Chinese companies. More than 250 Chinese companies including Alibaba face mass delistings from the U.S. if the two countries cannot reach a deal for U.S. regulators to inspect the audit papers…

| Dynamite Entertainment has announced they have partnered with DeVito ArtWorks to publish a new line of comics and board games based on King Kong of Skull Island. The licence was recently owned and operated by Boom Studios, who published Kong of Skull Island as a 12-issue comic book series from 2016 to 2017, as an official prequel to the rewrite of the novelization of the original 1933 King Kong film, part of DeVito's King Kong of Skull Island property. They followed that with Kong: Gods of Skull Island, Kong on the…

Chris Patten’s appointment as Hong Kong’s last governor in 1992 marked a cultural change for the colony. His predecessors had mostly been diplomats or administrators – Patten was a senior UK politician with reforming ambitions and a flair for public relations who aroused suspicion in both Beijing and Hong Kong. Many intrigued against him. But he had one supreme advantage – the loyal backing of John Major, the prime minister, and Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, back in London.Patten’s goal was to ensure the 1997…

The Duffer Brothers (with Millie Bobby Brown and Sadie Sink) are deeping their Netflix roots.Image: NetflixDon’t worry: next up for the Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things, is Stranger Things 5. After Stranger Things 4 crossed a billion hours watched for Netflix, the streamer is, obviously, going to want that as soon as possible. So writing starts soon. But Netflixwants to stay in business with the brothers beyond that and has just signed a major deal with their new company called, of course, Upside Down…

Photo: Tanmoythebong (Shutterstock)Are you one of the many, many people that gets a tingly kick from watching soft-spoken YouTubers tapping and whispering into their mics from hours on end? Have I got some bad vibes for you.If you’re not into ASMR or you’ve never heard of it, here’s a quick rundown: ASMR is short for autonomous sensory meridian response, and it’s the name of the sensation some people derive from hours-long videos of someone whispering into a camera at them. Some people describe the feeling as “tingles”…

The sequels to Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong have new release dates.Image: Warner Bros.If you already had plans to see Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated Dune: Part Two on October 20, 2023, you might want to put a pin in that. Warner Bros. has shifted the sci-fi epic a few weeks and it’ll now arrive in theaters on November 17, 2023.Surviving characters from the original film, played by the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, and Rebecca Ferguson, are all expected to return along with newcomers played by…

HONG KONG—One of China’s top lithium producers began marketing what is expected to be Hong Kong’s largest initial public offering so far this year, braving recent market volatility to test global investor appetite for shares of new-energy companies. Tianqi Lithium Corp. 002466 -1.01% is aiming to raise more than $1 billion in a listing on Hong Kong’s stock exchange, according to people familiar with the matter. The Chengdu, China-based…

“Fallout 1st Members will be able to rank up even more quickly and claim bonus rewards, as a result of new enhancements we are making to the Scoreboard” Fallout 76‘s new season is coming on June 14 with the Test Your Metal update, and it’ll add a few wrinkles into the mix too. Falling in with previous seasons, Season 9 will be centered around the theme of “Dread Island,” which is a clear nod to Skull Island and the King Kong franchise. To be clear this isn’t a place you can go directly in the game: it’s an elaborate…