How Youn Yuh-jung’s Oscars acceptance speech stole the show: the first Korean to win an Academy Award, for Minari, won over the world with her grace and honesty Youn Yuh-jung, winner of best actress in a supporting role for Minari, poses in the press room at the 93rd annual Academy Awards ceremony at Union Station in Los Angeles – where her unguarded interview touched hearts around the world. Photo: EPA-EFE
Youn Yuh-jung just made history. The Oscars 2021 were a crowning moment in the talented septuagenarian s life, where she became the first Korean actor to win an Academy Award. And as well as striking a pleasant contrast with the event s typical glitz and glamour, there s the matter of her headline-making Oscar acceptance speech.
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Forget Phuket, here’s Phu Quoc, Vietnam’s big tourism hope Snorkelling in Phu Quoc island, Vietnam.
On a late afternoon in Phu Quoc, Vietnam s largest island, couples and families relax on beanbag chairs at a Middle Eastern-themed beach bar, clinking their glasses while watching the sun set on the horizon. A few metres away, children build sandcastles, jump into the waves and indulge in water fights.
A scene like this in April seems far-fetched amid a raging Covid-19 pandemic that has seen spikes in new cases and fresh lockdowns in Asia and Europe.
But this is a reality in Vietnam, where life is almost back to normal thanks to many containment strategies including border closures that have kept out almost everyone since March last year, except for repatriated citizens, foreign investors and businesspeople. The country has recorded some 2,800 infections and 35 coronavirus-related deaths so far, despite sharing a border with China, where Covid-19 was first reported.
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Malaysian artist Fahmi Reza’s arrest for ‘insulting’ queen sparks backlash Malaysia’s King Sultan Abdullah and Queen Tunku Azizah Aminah pictured at Parliament House in Kuala Lumpur in 2019, as then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad looks on. Photo: AFP
The arrest of well-known Malaysian graphic artist and activist Fahmi Reza for allegedly insulting the country s queen - who is under fire for a social media faux pas - has triggered an outcry among free speech advocates who say authorities are being trigger-happy in using the law to clamp down on satire.
The police action follows rare public condemnation of the country s revered royal families, with former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad warning earlier in the week that the constitutional monarchs may be inadvertently bearing the brunt of frustration over the government s handling of the Covid-19 crisis.