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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Columbia Pictures and local developer Amazon Falls have confirmed that their Aquaverse theme park will open in Pattaya, Thailand on Oct 12, 2022. The development is the Sony Group’s first theme and water park and was delayed for roughly a year by the COVID-19 pandemic. With Thai authorities having already dismantled most of their pandemic-era measures and poised to soon drop COVID from its list of notifiable diseases (expected to happen on Oct. 1) multiple large entertainment projects are now rushing to open. Carnival Magic opened in Phuket earlier this week, while another, Bangkok World, is expected to open adjacent to the Siam Amazing Park on the outskirts of the Thai capital on Nov. 25, 2022.

Coronation Street star Pat Lally once appeared in a Hollywood blockbuster.The actor is currently playing thug Kieron Edgerton in the ITV soap.He will take centre stage this week as Kelly Neelan (Millie Gibson) offers him £10,000 to kill Gary Windass (Mikey North).READ MORE: Corrie's DeeDee Bailey star confirms character's secret link to Stu Carpenter Away from Weatherfield, Pat has appeared in rival soaps Emmerdale and Hollyoaks and appeared on stage in Beat Surrender in which he played iconic writer Jack Kerouac.In 2018, the soap star appeared in Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody alongside Rami Malek, Ben Hardy, Lucy Boynton and Gwilym Lee.The award-winning film tells the story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid in 1985.Pat played the role of Reporter 4 in the movie, which reportedly raked in over £900million in the box office.In upcoming Corrie scenes, Kelly tells fiancé Aadi Alahan (Adam Hussain) she’s booked their tickets to Bangkok, but fails to mention they’re one way. At the Bistro, Kelly’s overcome with emotion as their engagement party takes place.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief SK Global’s “Thai Cave Rescue” series faced almost as many obstacles as the specialist divers drafted to bring out 12 boys and their coach from a waterlogged grotto in summer 2018 in front of a blaze of media attention and an expectant Thai nation. The show debuts on Netflix on Thursday, a timing that means it follows three feature-length depictions and multiple news media specials retelling the watery events. It is also the retelling that is most closely associated with the Thai government, which auditioned prospective production companies and streamers and has carefully held the real-life rescued youngsters close to its chest.

SEVENTEEN’s Jun will be dropping a brand-new solo single titled ‘Limbo’ later this week.On September 19 at Noon KST, Jun (real name Wen Junhui) announced the upcoming release via SEVENTEEN’s official Twitter account with a mysterious teaser image. The ‘Limbo’ teaser features the singer showcasing his back, while a gloved hand rests atop his shoulder.‘Limbo’ is due out on September 23 at 1:00pm KST.

Coronation Street star Adam Hussain has shared a sweet message to his former co-star Millie Gibson after she recently filmed her last scenes. The actress, who plays Kelly Neelan, has bowed out of the ITV soap after three years with her dramatic exit set to aire during a special 'Super Soap Week' this month.

Coronation Street teen Kelly Neelan (Millie Gibson) finds herself in trouble yet again next week.As she stews over Gary Windass' (Mikey North) she approaches Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) and, making out that she’s acting on behalf of a friend, asks him if he’s got any dodgy contacts.Todd asserts she’d be best to go to the police.READ MORE: Corrie's Samia Longchambon parades toned figure in tiny bikini while 'cut in half'Called to the station to identify her kidnapper, Craig shows Kelly some photos, including one of Kieron, but Kelly makes out she’s never seen him before.Craig’s frustrated while outside the police station, Kelly approaches Kieron and offers him £10k to kill Gary.

Coronation Street favourite Kelly Neelan finds herself at the centre of more drama next week.As she stews over Gary Windass (Mikey North) after he recent discovery, she approaches Todd Grimshaw (Gareth Pierce) and, making out that she’s acting on behalf of a friend, asks him if he’s got any dodgy contacts. Todd asserts she’d be best to go to the police. Called to the station to identify her kidnapper, Craig Tinker (Colson Smith) shows Kelly some photos, including one of Kieron, but Kelly makes out she’s never seen him before.

Kaley Cuoco and her boyfriend Tom Pelphrey made their relationship red-carpet official when they made an appearance at the 2022 Emmy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles on Monday.The 36-year-old Big Bang Theory star was pretty in pink in an intriguing Dolce & Gabbana tulle dress, while her boyfriend opted for a classy black tuxedo.Kaley was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the second year in a row for her acclaimed HBO Max dark comedy thriller The Flight Attendant, though Jean Smart won the award for another HBO Max series, Hacks. Going public: Kaley Cuoco, 36, and her actor boyfriend Tom Pelphrey, 40, made their red-carpet debut on Monday at the 2022 Emmy Awards in Los AngelesKaley stars in The Flight Attendant as the title character, who is addicted to alcohol and has risky trysts with her passengers.When she wakes up in Bangkok next to a passenger she hooked up with on a flight, only to discover that he has been murdered, she is thrust into a dangerous world of international intrigue.

OnlyFans and a topless Instagram account. Australian fighter Tai Emery brutally knocked out Rung-Arun Khunchai in her promotion debut at BKFC Thailand 3: Moment of Truth in Bangkok on Saturday night.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag cut Phil Jones and Brandon Williams from his Europa League squad due to their prolonged recovery timescales from injury.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent It took a pandemic and a lockdown for “Drive” director Nicolas Winding Refn to make a directorial comeback in Denmark, where he had delivered the “Pusher” trilogy early in his career. “Sometimes the strangest things come in mysterious ways, and this is one of those,” Refn says of “Copenhagen Cowboy,” his Netflix original series, slated to world premiere Sept. 9 at the Venice Film Festival. Since “Drive,” Winding Refn has directed the Bangkok-set thriller “Only God Forgives,” with “Drive” star Ryan Gosling; “The Neon Demon,” with Elle Fanning playing an aspiring model in Los Angeles.; and the Amazon Prime Video series “Too Old to Die Young,” starring Miles Teller as a grieving cop in crime-ridden Southern California. He was preparing another project set abroad when the pandemic hit.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Film studios in Asia-Pacific are expanding the scale of their operations and want location incentives to keep pace. “Incentives are fundamental, they are an expectation [of production managers] and having one is no longer a USP,” said Rashid Karim, CEO of Iskandar Malaysia Studios. He was speaking at the Content Asia summit conference in Bangkok on Thursday. The IMS facility opened ten years ago around the same time as Malaysia introduced a location production incentive scheme. These days, the scheme offers a generous 35% uncapped rebate. But since the scheme launched, rival locations in the Asian region including Thailand, India and Mongolia have launched or are in the process of launching rebate schemes.

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Apple AirPods after taking a very expensive round-trip to retrieve them.Lewis Ellis, 31, decided to go on a globetrotting trek to retrieve his beloved headphones after leaving them on a Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok to Doha.He said staff wouldn't let him back on the plane to retrieve them, and after waiting four hours in the airport for them, he gave up and went home. READ NEXT: Facebook now 'officially' for old people as teens desert it for cooler social networks Lewis later checked the location of the AirPods using the 'Find My' app on iPhone and discovered that the earphones were on 'the holiday of a lifetime'.Lewis watched his earphones travel the world for five months. He said: "I watched as they flew from Qatar to Kathmandu, before heading to a small village in the Himalayan mountains overlooking Nepal."They then took a short jaunt to Thailand before finally coming to rest back in Doha."After his friends dared him to go and retrieve them in person, Lewis and his friend Tom flew to Doha and used the Find My app to try and find the AirPods with the help of a local man, Karim.Once they arrived in Doha, the lads tracked the AirPods to an apartment building and went door-to-door trying to connect to them using Bluetooth.

animals that had been smuggled in a man's checked luggage.The reported smuggler snuck 15 kingsnakes, five ball pythons, two aldabra tortoises and one De Brazza monkey in boxes in his checked luggage on a flight from Bangkok, which officials discovered after a tip-off alerted them to the possible smuggling plan.The animals were given a once-over to make sure they were healthy before they were deported back to Thailand on a Thai Airlines flight.READ MORE: Man who feels bad that snakes don't have legs designs robot suit so they can walkK R Uday Bhaskar, principal commissioner at Chennai Customs, said: “[The animals] were sent back because they will find it difficult to survive here."Meanwhile the man who had attempted to bring in the contrabanded animals was identified in local media as Mohammed Shahiel, an Indian national who claimed a stranger had given him the bag and told him to hand it to a man when he reached Chennai.While he wasn't carrying a license from India's AQCS (Animal Quarantine and Certification Services) which would have permitted the import, Shahiel was not arrested.Customs officials are still on the lookout for the man Shahiel was supposed to give the animals to when he arrived in India, but haven't made any arrests yet.This is the second time this year that illegally-imported animals from Thailand have been seized in India - the previous incident took place in May.No arrests were made in that case either.Officials and local media have speculated that this might mean the illegal pet trade is gathering steam again, after it took a hit during the pandemic due to travel restrictions.But even in spite of the pandemic, the industry has always been a major money-maker, with the illegal exotic pet trade

Naman Ramachandran During his eclectic career so far British actor Shubham Saraf has played a variety of roles.Saraf, who studied at the U.K.’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama and France’s École Philippe Gaulier, played an aristocrat in newly independent India in Mira Nair’s BBC/Netflix series “A Suitable Boy”; a policeman in Netflix procedural “Criminal: U.K.” and a PR advisor in Jed Mercurio’s BBC series “Bodyguard.”The actor stars opposite Charlie Hunnam and Alexander Siddig in the upcoming Apple TV+ adaptation of Gregory David Roberts’ bestseller “Shantaram,” which tells the story of a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who, in the 1980s, flees Australia to India, where he reinvents himself as a doctor and a gangster in the slums of Bombay. Saraf’s role is under wraps at the moment but he describes the process as an “intense life-altering experience.” Once cast, in the middle of COVID-19, Saraf’s life was “upended at short notice” and he shot in Thailand and Australia for six months after spending two weeks in quarantine in each country.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag has confirmed that winger Facundo Pellistri will be sidelined until at least September because of an ankle injury.