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There are hair products out there for every style, from tight ringlets to bouncy bobs to sleek buzz cuts, under the sun.Once you know which products are right for your hair and desired look, they will save you time spent in front of the mirror and help you avoid a bad hair day.We have taken a look at some of the most common hair styling products and have asked stylists which ones are best for what type of hair and style.Before you start styling, you should shampoo, condition and treat your hair. Be wary of overdoing this if your goal is a voluminous hairstyle, as conditioner can weigh your hair down.Before you start styling, you should shampoo, condition and treat your hair. Photo: ShutterstockIf you want your hairstyle to last all day, you may want to use hair lacquer – a type of very str...

Actor and producer Ma Dong-seok, best known for his bone-crunching action in the The Roundup series, is set to captivate audiences once again, this time venturing into the occult with his latest film, Holy Night: Demon Hunters.In the movie Ma plays Bau, a formidable troubleshooter using his fists to exorcise demons as a leader of the “Holy Night” team.The 54-year-old actor, also known as Don Lee, expressed his enthusiasm for the project in a recent interview, highlighting the action sequences made possible by the film’s fantasy elements.“I put a lot of effort into the action sequences, and the fantasy genre allowed for a more impactful and refreshing result,” he said. He also shared his satisfaction in supporting the debut of director Lim Dae-hee.While working on the highly anticipated nex...

From the effects of tariffs to the benefits of sex therapy, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend.

“The world is in a brilliant place right now,” Rattanamol Singh says sarcastically.“We live in deeply imperfect times,” he continues, more sombrely, “but what happens is that, underneath the surface, people from various disciplines are creating and talking to each other and finding ways to tell their stories through different mediums.”The search for such people took the Los Angeles-based filmmaker to Hong Kong recently, where he filmed a 40-minute “visual essay”.It will become the first episode of a documentary series called Patterns and Contrasts, which will be released on YouTube in early June.For Singh, who is of Punjabi-Sikh descent and grew up in the United States, the changes Hong Kong has seen since the 2019 anti-government protests and the introduction of the national security law ...

Amanda Knox has found comfort in “the sisterhood of ill repute”.Speaking at the LA Times Festival of Books at the weekend, Knox was candid about connecting with other women who she says have been publicly vilified.Monica Lewinsky was the first of that group that she met, and she said their relationship has been meaningful. “She showed me that there was a path forward for regaining a sense of authorship over your own life,” Knox said.In 2007, while studying abroad in Italy, Knox was wrongfully convicted of murdering her roommate, Meredith Kercher, and spent nearly four years in prison before she was eventually exonerated.Amanda Knox escorted by Italian prison police officers after a hearing in 2008. Photo: APKnox described meeting Lewinsky, an activist and former White House intern who had ...

This is the 61st instalment in a series on dementia, including the research into its causes and treatment, advice for carers, and stories of hope.You are never too old to start exercising: science says that even in your mid-sixties – and beyond – exercise will make a big difference to your brain.A study by a team at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, which analysed the exercise habits of almost 90,000 adults with a median age of 63, found that every extra half-hour of exercise over the average weekly 126 minutes was associated with a four per cent reduction in the risk of developing dementia.Amal Wanigatunga, assistant professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and lead author of the study, says the findings show that any amount of moderate to ...

Whenever Disney premieres a new stage musical, we see all over again how much of a draw they can be for families with children.Think of Disney musicals like Frozen and The Lion King, where rapt children in their Elsa dresses or those clutching their stuffed Simbas remain glued to their theatre seats.But from what age are the themes of such musicals really suitable for children, and how can they be best prepared for what they will be seeing on stage?Officially, children aged three and up are allowed to attend a Disney live-action musical. Stephan Jaekel, the director of communications at theatre operator Stage Entertainment in Hamburg, Germany, says that it is extremely rare that children have to be turned away, since parents and legal guardians usually respect the minimum-age rule.“But of ...

Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie, which hit cinemas on April 25, answers a lot of questions about the stoner comedy duo’s career.But it also raises a few big ones along the way, chief among them, given the title: is this truly the final silver-screen session for the pair, now 78 and 86 respectively? And how, after a contentious creative split four decades ago, did they find themselves reunited for, of all things, a documentary?“It’s [actually] the next-to-the-last movie, but that doesn’t sound right,” quips Richard “Cheech” Marin with a slight shrug and a wan chuckle. “You never know.”“God only knows,” Tommy Chong says. “It all depends on the script. Everything depends on the script.”What reunited them on the big screen for the first time since 1984’s The Corsican Brothers?...

When Imada Sake Brewing master brewer Miho Imada presented a sake inspired by local seafood to a sommelier from Hong Kong, she asked for pairing suggestions. The answer was surprising: braised pork trotters.Sake has been enjoying an international boom that is bringing in new fans and food combinations. Even as domestic consumption of Japan’s national drink continues its long decline, the volume exported in 2024 was up 90 per cent over 10 years ago.Aided by the addition of the traditional knowledge and skills used in sake brewing to Unesco’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list in December, this overseas bonanza is giving a shot in the arm to regional brewers like Imada Shuzo, as the brewery is commonly known.In the quiet port town of Akitsu, facing the Seto Inland Sea, Imada Shuzo produces it...

“Exploitation films”, which rely on copious amounts of soft-core sex, gore and violence to attract an audience, began in the United States in the 1960s with films like Blood Feast. By the 1970s, hundreds were being made.Hong Kong did not really explore the genre until the late 1980s – but once it started, it went for it, no holds barred.We recall three classics of the exploitation genre made in Hong Kong.1. Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)Prison films were a big part of the exploitation genre, and the gross-out Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, often regarded as Hong Kong’s most outrageous action movie, takes the idea to the max.There are sadistic wardens, brutal gang bosses, buckets of blood and gore, and plenty of hard-hitting futuristic kung fu courtesy of choreographer Philip Kwok Chun-fu...