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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief

Katie Price jokes she might have to get her pink moped back after being banned from driving following her horror crash last September.

Katie Price has made light about her driving ban by joking she would use a pink moped on the roads.The former glamour model was banned from driving following her car crash in mid-September. At her sentencing in December, the 44 year old was handed a two-year driving ban, having pleaded guilty to drink-driving without insurance and whilst disqualified.The sentencing marked the sixth time Katie has been banned from driving over the last 10 years. Now, nine months later, Katie has expressed her desire to get back on a motor vehicle – specifically, a pink moped.

CLC singer Sorn has unveiled the first teaser for her upcoming fourth digital single.The Thai K-pop idol took to her personal Instagram page yesterday (September 6) to post a cryptic teaser image for her upcoming digital single. The image takes the form of a word search puzzle, presented alongside its release date of September 15 at midnight KST.Within the word search puzzle, the words “Seungyeon”, “Yeeun“, “Reunion” and “Nirvana Girl” can be spotted, potentially signalling the featuring artists and title of the new single.

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.

David Simonsen is joining Amazon and taking over the new position of Director Prime Video, Southeast Asia. He will be based in Singapore and is starting on Monday, September 5.

One franchise woman! Kandi Burruss got real about why she doesn’t want to join The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Two Korean and two Indian movies make the cut in the Busan International Film Festival’s New Currents main competition section. Thet are joined by one each from Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Germany. The section has a track record of making significant discoveries among new Asian films and directors.The selected titles are eligible for multiple awards, including the New Currents Award, the FIPRESCI Award, the NETPAC Award, and the KB New Currents Audience Award. The selection comprises: “Ajooma,” directed by Hu Shuming (Singapore-Korea); “Blue Again” from Thailand’s Thapanee Loosuwan; “Hail to Hell,” by Korea’s Lim Oh-jeong; “Memento Mori: Earth,” by Vietnam’s Marcus Vu Manh Cuong; “No End,” directed by Nader Saeivar and flying the flags of Germany, Iran and Turkey; “A Place Called Silence,” by Malaysia’s Sam Quah; “Shivamma,” fromIndia’s Jaishankar Aryar; Japanese director Kubota Nao’s “One Thousand and One Nights”; “A Wild Roomer,” from Korea’s Lee Jeong-hong; and The Winter Within,” directed by Aamir Bashir, and structured as a co-production between India, France and Qatar.

Big Mouth has come under fire for dialogue that allegedly perpetuates racial insensitivity.In the second episode of Big Mouth, which first aired on July 30, the series’ main character Park Chang-ho (played by Lee Jong-suk) provokes a fellow inmate on death row, asking if his mother had seaweed soup after giving birth to him.In South Korea, it is custom for Korean mothers to have seaweed soup after giving birth. However, Chang-ho continued to rile the inmate up by asking what his mother had eaten after his birth for him to grow into a psychopath.“Did your mother eat seaweed soup after giving birth to you? I am really curious as to what she ate to have given birth to a psycho like you.

Manchester United centre-back Will Fish is set to join Scottish club Hibernian on loan.

The Mighty Ducks are back, again.

James Garner is set to move to Everton after Manchester United accepted a bid for the midfielder.

Take a look inside the suburban family home which was dramatically converted into a stunning Thai Buddhist temple. The house, on Slateford Road, Edinburgh, was opened in 2005 after undergoing a £120,000 renovation in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami on Boxing Day 2004.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Smart phone usage is key to music listeners in parts of East Asia, but only a minority of users are committed subscribers to streaming services. That apparent contradiction may explain the rise of mini-subscriptions in the region. “Some 81% of music listeners in Malaysia use smartphones as their go-to music listening devices in a typical month, yet only 31% of music streamers in Malaysia pay for a streaming subscription,” says new report from consultancy firm Luminate. The firm’s latest Music 360 Study examines music consumption habits and preferences in a selection of Asia-Pacific markets, including South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia, but excluding China, India, Singapore and Australia. 

Netflix just dropped the new trailer for “Thai Cave Rescue”.

Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly has only two exit routes out of Manchester United if he wishes to leave the club.

Rio Ferdinand has claimed that Cristiano Ronaldo will be fuming with his current role at Manchester United.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Lee Jung-jae, the star of hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” is to reprise his role as a manic killer in “Ray,” a TV series spun off from 2020 Korean action-horror film “Deliver Us From Evil.” Korean media sources report that Lee will star in and co-produce the series through his own Artist Studio company and Hive Media, producer of “Deliver Us From Evil.” Variety has reached out for further details. In the original movie, Hwang Jung-min played In-Nam, a former black ops agent who travels to Thailand to investigate an abduction. There he is pursued by Lee’s character Ray, a Korean-Japanese ruffian whose brother had been killed by In-Nam. Both heavily tattooed and charming, Ray embarks on a bloody rampage of revenge.

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.

Renfrewshire Muay Thai talent Lee MacKay revealed that it “hasn’t sunk in yet” that he is champion of Europe.

As the cost of living crisis continues to bite at our bank balances, many shoppers have been looking for ways that they can keep costs low when they are at the supermarket.