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The click of a computer, or the press of a TV remote, is all it takes for a global audience to watch Chinese dramas – and for China to tap into a gushing revenue stream.

During the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), the country has seen television and radio programmes and related services surge by 40%, said Dong Xin, deputy director of the National Radio and Television Administration, at a press conference held by the State Council Information Office on Sept 25.

With the Internet versions of Chinese audiovisual platforms reaching more than 200 countries and regions, the country has generated over US$63bil (RM266bil) in revenue overseas.

Besides, more than 300 apps for micro-dramas have been available for download on overseas platforms, added Dong.

Some of the most popular programmes include Welcome To Milele, inspired by the true stories of Chinese medical aid teams in Africa; Minning Town, a heartfelt story of a Ningxia village’s fight against poverty since the 1990s; and To The Wonder, a poetic portrayal of a young woman’s life and romance in Xinjiang’s Altay region.

Further exemplifying Chinese content’s popularity, when Welcome To Milele was broadcast in Kenya, the audience for Citizen TV – one of Kenya’s most-watched channels – surged by over 135%, or 2.35 times its previous viewership.

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THE Kuala Lumpur Design Festival (KLDF) is hosting its fourth edition this weekend, framing Kuala Lumpur as a city of infinite hues and pigments with its theme CMYK*L – a nod to the CMYK colour model for printing that combines cyan, magenta, yellow and black.

Opening today at Damansara City (DC) Mall, the Kuala Lumpur Design Festival (KLDF) asks a vivid question: “What colours define Kuala Lumpur?”

Design students from across Malaysia were invited to answer through the CMYK*L Design Exhibition, featuring selected works on Level 2 of DC Mall – from illustrations and motifs to fashion, projection mapping and furniture.

“As a thriving metropolis, Kuala Lumpur is a blend of not just people and culture, but also colour. Like sound, taste and smell, colour transmutes from one location to the next, like food and fruits to signages and buildings. But it becomes part of the background. That’s why we’re using design this year to highlight the role of colour and explore what is Kuala Lumpur through this lens,” says Nizar Musa, creative director of KLDF.

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I flew into Singapore from Kuala Lumpur for a string of business meetings – the kind of trip where you pack a suit but hope to return with something more: A story, a taste, a reminder of why this city still matters.

Everywhere I turned in the weeks leading up to it, the chatter was the same: Restaurants are closing, the dining scene is struggling, the fire’s going out. Maybe. But step into the right rooms, pull up a chair at the right tables, and you’ll see what I saw. The embers haven’t died, they’ve been forged into something sharper.

Singapore isn’t fading, it’s still leading the region when it comes to fine dining. And it’s doing so with unapologetic, world-class confidence.

My base for the trip was the Raffles Hotel Singapore, a place so steeped in history it feels like you’ve stumbled into a sepia-toned photograph. Walk through its white colonnades and it’s 1900 again.

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Fifty-five heat waves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published recently.

Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature and examined a set of 213 heat waves from 2000 to 2023.The polluters examined in the study include publicly traded and state-owned companies, as well several countries where fossil fuel production data was available at the national level.

Collectively, these producers are responsible for 57% of all the carbon dioxide that was emitted from 1850 to 2023, the study found.

“It just shows that it’s not that many actors… who are responsible for a very strong fraction of all emissions,” said Sonia Seneviratne, a climate professor at the Swiss university ETH Zurich who was one of the study’s contributors.

The set of heat waves in the study came from the EM-DAT International Disaster Database, which the researchers described as the most widely used global disaster repository.The Nature study examined all of the heat waves in the database from 2000 to 2023 except for a few that weren’t suitable for their analysis.

Global warming made all 213 of the heat waves examined more likely, the study found.Out of those, 55 were 10,000 times more likely to have happened than they would have been before industrialisation began accelerating in the 1800s.The calculation is equivalent to saying those 55 heat waves “would have been virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change, the authors wrote.

“Many of these heat waves had very strong consequences,” said Seneviratne.She said the series of heat waves that struck Europe in 2022 that was linked to tens of thousands of deaths

sticks out in her mind as one of the events with particularly grave consequences.

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Drink-spiking is when someone puts alcohol or drugs into someone else’s drink without their knowledge or consent.

This may have happened to you if suddenly, everything goes black and you barely remember what happened.

The nightmare of memory loss, loss of control and shame can be caused by what are variously known as date rape drugs, knockout drops and roofies.

Whatever they are called, their effects are insidious, barely detectable and act quickly.

But there are ways you can try and establish whether you have fallen victim to drink-spiking, what the typical symptoms are and what to do in the case of an emergency, says Germany’s central and state Police Crime Prevention Unit head Tina Elsner.

She shares what to do if you suspect a drink has been spiked in the below Q&A.

After all, the better informed you are about the potential dangers, the better you can protect yourself and others.

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Imagine music soaring under a canopy of stars, with the rustle of a two-million-year-old rainforest and the gentle lap of waves as your orchestra.

That’s the essence of Opera In Paradise, a signature event at Pangkor Laut Resort that merges world-class opera talent with tropical serenity.

First launched in October 2023, Opera In Paradise was conceived as a tribute to the late Luciano Pavarotti, who famously called the island “paradise”.

What elevates the event isn’t just its line-up, but the setting.

Only a fraction of the land on this private island resort is developed, so guests are surrounded by lush rainforest and sea, with architecture that blends seamlessly into the natural landscape.

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What happens when Mozart’s infamous seducer, Don Giovanni, is torn from 17th-century Seville (Spain) and thrust into the glittering towers and shadowy backstreets of modern-day Kuala Lumpur?

That’s the bold vision Kuala Lumpur City Opera (KLCO) brings to life in its upcoming retelling of the timeless masterpiece Don Giovanni, taking the stage at Pentas 1, Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPac) from Oct 23-26.

It’s likely KLCO’s most mischievous production of the year – one that follows a season of celebration with The Golden Age Of Broadway and Young Mozart Voyager lighting up its 10th anniversary. And the festivities continue next month, as KLCO readies Ravel 150, a double-bill performance marking the 150th anniversary of composer Maurice Ravel.

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Hermes chief menswear designer Veronique Nichanian is to step down after 37 years in charge and will present her final show for the luxury house in January, the company announced on Friday (Oct 17).

Hermes announced the change “with heartfelt emotion”, paying tribute to Nichanian’s “eye, her vision, her generosity, her energy and her curiosity” in a press release.

“It is time to pass the torch,” the 71-year-old designer told Le Figaro newspaper, adding that she still has “ideas” but wants to dedicate more time to herself, particularly to fulfil “a long-standing dream” of spending several months in Japan.

She said she was leaving the house “with joy and pride”, after enjoying “37 years of creative freedom”.

“The success of the men’s universe owes much to her,” the hugely profitable French luxury giant added in its statement about Nichanian, who was poached from Cerruti in 1988 by Jean-Louis Dumas, president of Hermes from 1978 to 2006.

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Should you meet a turtle basking on a log in the sun, you might reasonably conclude that the turtle is in a good mood.

Granted, there has been little scientific evidence that reptiles experience such emotional richness – until now, at least.

Researchers in England identified what they describe as “mood states” – emotional experiences that are more than momentary – in red-footed tortoises by administering cleverly designed tests that use responses to ambiguity as windows into the psyche.

The results of the study, published in the journal Animal Cognition, could apply to many more reptiles and have profound implications for how people treat them.

“There was an acceptance that reptiles could do these short-term emotions,” said Oliver Burman, who studies animal behaviour at the University of Lincoln in England and is an author of the paper.

“They could respond to positive things and unpleasant things. But the long-term mood states are really important.” As for why it took so long to show this in reptiles, Burman said, “maybe we just haven’t asked them correctly.”

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Eight friends once shared an annual holiday ritual, marked by enthusiastic planning and deep camaraderie, a spirit exemplified by their first annual trip to Sabah.

However, as time passed and life’s demands grew over the last 15 years, the commitment from some waned, creating a wistful atmosphere.

Now, as they plan an ambitious driving adventure to Tibet from Chengdu, there’s a collective yearning for the group’s original fire to be rekindled, a hopeful anticipation for the return of their shared spirit for the journey ahead.

This is my story. Those are all my friends. We named ourselves G8. The eight of us once had a pact.

It was less of a promise and more a desperate declaration against the inevitable drift of adult life: a week-long trip, every year, no matter what.

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