Vietnamese police will formally charge British glam rocker Gary Glitter with child molestation and drop an additional charge of child rape, his Vietnamese lawyer said on Monday. Police have said medical tests on girls who alleged they had had sex with the 1970s rock icon, who was arrested last month, led them to look into the more serious charge of raping children which can carry the death penalty.
A judge on Friday ordered hip-hop artist Foxy Brown handcuffed to her seat in court until she apologized for sticking out her tongue during a hearing stemming from the rapper's arrest last year on assault charges. The recording star, whose real name is Inga Marchand, was in court to plead guilty to disorderly conduct in a deal with prosecutors that would require her to perform 10 days of community service.
Actress Laura Dern, star of such films as Rambling Rose and Jurassic Park, has married her longtime boyfriend, singer-songwriter Ben Harper, Us Weekly magazine reported last week. The couple, who began dating in 2000 and have two children together, son Ellery, 4, and daughter Jaya, 1, were wed on Thursday in a sunset ceremony attended by more than 150 friends and family at a private home in Los Angeles, according to the magazine's Web site.
Pop star Cyndi Lauper will make her Broadway debut next year in The Threepenny Opera, playing the prostitute Jenny in the satirical musical about a highwayman and his sweetheart. The role of Jenny was originally slated to be played by Sopranos star Edie Falco, but she dropped out earlier this month and opened the way for Lauper -- best known for such 1980s hits as Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time after Time.
David Letterman once had a woman stalk him for five years and now he has a female fan accusing him of sending coded messages to her over the airwaves. And he also has a New Mexico judge who has issued a restraining order for him to stop. Lawyers for Letterman this week asked for the restraining order to be thrown out, saying, "The claims made are obviously absurd and frivolous."
The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New York newspapers last week. Citing sources close to an investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney's office, the Daily News said Cooke's bones were snatched before his cremation and sold for more than US$7,000 to two tissue processing companies.
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona was detained at Rio de Janeiro airport on Thursday after he tried to force his way onto a flight that he was late for, police and a Brazilian airline said. Police held Maradona, 45, for several hours in the morning before releasing him. He boarded a flight to Buenos Aires on Thursday afternoon.
Nine months after she was arrested on charges of methamphetamine possession in Los Angeles, Filipino superstar Nora Aunor was enrolled on Friday in a court-supervised drug treatment program. A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge formally sanctioned her participation in the diversion program, which requires Aunor, 52, to undergo at least 12 months of outpatient substance abuse treatment in order to clear her record.
Actor Brad Renfro, former child star of such films as The Client and Tom and Huck, was arrested in a skid-row drug sweep by Los Angeles undercover detectives rounding up suspected heroin buyers, police said on Friday. Renfro, 23, was one of 14 people detained on suspicion of attempting to buy heroin during Thursday's sting operation by the Los Angeles police department, said spokesman Lieutenant Paul Vernon.
Lawyers for Michael Jackson and a key creditor are in talks to keep the pop star from defaulting on US$200 million in loans secured by his prized stake in the Beatles' song catalog, an attorney for the singer said on Monday. A default on the loans, was due yesterday which would allow the Fortress Investment Group to seize Jackson's 50-percent interest in the Beatles publishing rights valued at some US$500 million.
March 24 to March 30 When Yang Bing-yi (楊秉彝) needed a name for his new cooking oil shop in 1958, he first thought of honoring his previous employer, Heng Tai Fung (恆泰豐). The owner, Wang Yi-fu (王伊夫), had taken care of him over the previous 10 years, shortly after the native of Shanxi Province arrived in Taiwan in 1948 as a penniless 21 year old. His oil supplier was called Din Mei (鼎美), so he simply combined the names. Over the next decade, Yang and his wife Lai Pen-mei (賴盆妹) built up a booming business delivering oil to shops and
Indigenous Truku doctor Yuci (Bokeh Kosang), who resents his father for forcing him to learn their traditional way of life, clashes head to head in this film with his younger brother Siring (Umin Boya), who just wants to live off the land like his ancestors did. Hunter Brothers (獵人兄弟) opens with Yuci as the man of the hour as the village celebrates him getting into medical school, but then his father (Nolay Piho) wakes the brothers up in the middle of the night to go hunting. Siring is eager, but Yuci isn’t. Their mother (Ibix Buyang) begs her husband to let
The Taipei Times last week reported that the Control Yuan said it had been “left with no choice” but to ask the Constitutional Court to rule on the constitutionality of the central government budget, which left it without a budget. Lost in the outrage over the cuts to defense and to the Constitutional Court were the cuts to the Control Yuan, whose operating budget was slashed by 96 percent. It is unable even to pay its utility bills, and in the press conference it convened on the issue, said that its department directors were paying out of pocket for gasoline
On March 13 President William Lai (賴清德) gave a national security speech noting the 20th year since the passing of China’s Anti-Secession Law (反分裂國家法) in March 2005 that laid the legal groundwork for an invasion of Taiwan. That law, and other subsequent ones, are merely political theater created by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to have something to point to so they can claim “we have to do it, it is the law.” The president’s speech was somber and said: “By its actions, China already satisfies the definition of a ‘foreign hostile force’ as provided in the Anti-Infiltration Act, which unlike
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