TAIPEI — After more than a decade in the business, Hu, a representative of a distributor selling foreign-made silicon wafers in China, says he has been shaken by a recent trend: the rapid rise over the past two years of Chinese manufacturers offering the products at just half the price of leading Japanese rivals. Source link
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil — The Rio International Film Fest will feature China as its country focus in next year’s edition, as part of the 2026 China-Brazil Cultural Year, said Walkiria Barbosa, Rio Fest’s executive director and int’l marketing. The governments of the two countries announced in Nov. 2024, during a visit of China’s president…
Julia Roberts set the internet on fire this week when her first fall fashion magazine cover was unveiled. The star of “Pretty Woman” and “Notting Hill” was photographed wearing a blazer by Phoebe Philo, embodying the glossy movie star allure we’ve come to expect of the season. But it wasn’t one of the usual suspects…
Knowa De Baraso was hard to miss this time last year during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. He was the preternaturally precocious, pre-teen pundit in a polo shirt and khaki shorts who made the rounds of the global media outlets that were camped out in the the United Center sports arena as Vice President…
Happy Gilmore and its rowdy titular character have been embedded in the zeitgeist since the movie debuted in 1996. Now, nearly 30 years later, a much-anticipated sequel returns some of these fan-favorite characters to the screen, while also introducing fresh faces to the cult-following franchise. Happy Gilmore 2wouldn’t exist without Adam Sandler, who reclaims the…
Comcast is doubling down on its bid to become the entertainment one-stop shop for customers in its cable footprint. The company is launching Xfinity StreamStore, a hub for purchasing and managing streaming apps, channels and networks, available to Xfinity TV and Internet customers. Comcast touts StreamStore as having “one of the world’s largest catalogs of…
Mark Geragos, the Los Angeles-based lawyer to the stars who made a name for himself representing deeply beloved and maligned celebrities and public figures like Michael Jackson, Sean Combs and Erik and Lyle Menendez, must pay $100,000 to a youth basketball coach for his role in the 2018 Nike extortion scheme, a jury has decided….
The prosecutor made a bold prediction during her closing argument. “For 20 years, the defendant got away with his crimes — that ends in this courtroom,” declared Assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey last week in the government’s case versus Sean “Diddy” Combs. “It is time to hold him accountable … the defendant is not a…