Girard, who will give opening remarks at the May 11 show, first visited Hong Kong in 1974 as a 19-year-old. He was instantly “hooked” on the “mesmerising city”, he told the Post in a 2017 interview and, after roaming the region, and making regular visits to the city, he settled in Hong Kong in 1982.He documented many film sets in the 1980s, a glamorous era of Hong Kong cinema. Outside of film production, he is known as the creator of one of the rarer photographic collections depicting Hong Kong’s transformation over the decades. Read More...
Not surprisingly, the show has also featured a host of transgender stars, who were either in the process of transitioning while filming, or came out after the show.
The transgender drag debate
Drag Race fans know very well that the idea of transsexual queens on the show has been a heated talking point, which led to a massive backlash for RuPaul in the past.
During a 2018 interview, Ru admitted during an interview that he “probably” wouldn’t have admitted a transgender woman like Peppermint on the reality show if she had already started gender-affirming surgery. Read More...
“These new devices have superior performance, including high power, high frequency and ultra-low energy consumption,” said the team led by Wang Yingmin, chief expert of the 46th research institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), in a peer-reviewed paper published in the Chinese academic journal Semiconductor Technology on January 31.
While other nations are still grappling with this technology in the lab, China has already smoothed out the kinks in the production line. Read More...