Burger King launches deals to replace Eat Out To Help Out

Martin Lewis and his team at MoneySavingExpert.com have announced the launch of a brand new energy auto- compare-and-switch tool. The ‘MSE Autoswitch’ service has taken 18-months to develop and is the latest addition to the consumer website's Cheap Energy Club.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Hong Kong Disneyland theme park is to reopen this week after being closed two times for coronavirus control reasons. It will reopen on Friday (Sept.

Brandon Choe Photo EditorThe 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards were filled with a slew of surprises including a sweep of all comedy categories by Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek. The now-ended series won seven trophies including Outstanding Comedy Series.

In a devastating blow for local LGBTQI communities, a Hong Kong court this week has refused to recognise same sex marriages conducted abroad. “The applicant’s attempt in the present case to achieve complete parity of legal recognition of foreign same-sex marriages and foreign opposite-sex marriages is too ambitious,” Judge Anderson Chow wrote in his judgment.The case bought forward by Jimmy Sham, a local district councillor who in 2013 had married his partner in New York, argued that Hong

Lindsay Blake Ryan Murphy’s new “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prequel, “Ratched,” finally dropped today on Netflix. The highly-anticipated origin story takes a look at the early career of infamous villain Nurse Mildred Ratched (played by a deliciously vicious Sarah Paulson) as she perfects her special brand of patient care and lobotomy skills at the fictional Lucia State Hospital.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe 25th edition of the Busan International Film Festival will shrink by a third and be presented in a hybrid in-person and offline format, due to the challenges posed by the coronavirus.Running with newly announced dates of Oct.

50 Cent is showing some love — and a whole bunch of cash — to some lucky fast-food employees in his hometown of Queens, New York.

Janet W. Lee Mark Ruffalo virtually joined Tuesday morning’s Justice for Jacob Community Celebration in his hometown, Kenosha, Wis.

attacking passengers at the station during their arrest of suspected protesters.

The Notorious B.I.G.‘s “King of New York” crown and some love letters written by 2Pac are going under the hammer next month.The iconic pieces of music history are just two of 120 items that will be auctioned off by Sotheby’s celebrating the impact of hip-hop.The crown up for auction was worn by Biggie during his last recorded photoshoot just three days before he was shot dead on March 9, 1997.Spawning the “King of New York” picture, as it came to be known, it’s featured on magazine covers,

Wetherspoons has said it will continue offering discounted meals after the government's Eat Out to Help Out scheme comes to an end.Thousands of restaurants signed up to the government initiative, which gave customers 50 per cent off their food bill up to £10 per person every Monday to Wednesday in August.With the scheme set to end today, some restaurants have decided to continue the scheme at their own expense.Pub giant Wetherspoons has announced it will be slashing its food prices on Mondays,

Hong Kong actress/producer Josie Ho is set to collaborate with French director Luc Besson and American History X helmer Tony Kaye through the Hong Kong-based 852 Films, the production company she had founded with husband Conroy Chan in 2009. Ho will star in the entire slate, she and Chan will also take up producer duties for the films.

Hirokazu Kore-eda is one of the best filmmakers working today. Full stop.

Hong Kong's Filmart, Asia's largest film and television content market, on Wednesday kicked off its first-ever virtual edition amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In an auspicious sign for the local industry, the event's online panel discussions and virtual dealmaking sessions got underway in earnest just after news broke that Hong Kong's movie theaters would be allowed to reopen as the third wave of novel coronavirus infection was brought back under control.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefCinemas in Hong Kong are to be allowed to reopen from Friday, as the coronavirus threat recedes once again.Early indications from ticketing app HK Movies shows booking for Korean zombie thriller “Peninsula” which had its release postponed, and for Hong Kong romance “Beyond the Dream,” which started its cinema run on July 2.

Vivienne Chow Solidly-established Hong Kong film director Soi Cheang (“Accident,” “SPL II,” “The Monkey King” series) returns to action with the new crime thriller “Limbo.” He says his ambition is to revive the former glory of the city’s action cinema by targeting international audiences outside China.Announced just ahead of the opening of Wednesday’s FilMart, which has been postponed from its usual March slot and changed to an online format due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, “Limbo” is