BEIJING: China’s top legislature on Tuesday started a regular session to review several bills, including a draft revision to the National Defense Education Law and a draft amendment to the Statistics Law. Zhao Leji, chairman of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) Standing Committee, presided over the first plenary meeting of the committee’s 11th session. … Read more
Daniel Craig delivers a career-best performance in Luca Guadagnino‘s romantic drama “Queer,” playing a gay American expat in 1950s Mexico City. The drama, with its explicit love scenes, swept up a packed theater at its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night, earning a 9-minute standing ovation. When the applause began, Craig … Read more
Brady Corbet‘s historical drama “The Brutalist,” starring Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones and Guy Pearce, wowed Venice Film Festival on Sunday with a 12-minute standing ovation. Brody, who stars in the film as a Hungarian Holocaust survivor struggling to revive his career as an architect in the U.S., was overcome with emotion as the clapping raged … Read more
Kinzang Lhamo of Bhutan in action as she looks at her watch before finishing the race. — Reuters/file The last athlete to finish Sunday’s marathon, an hour and a half after the winner, did so to a standing ovation on the final day of the Paris Games. Bhutan’s Kinzang Lhamo finished the hilly and hot … Read more