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ANTARA's Top 10 pick of adrenaline-pumping Asian horror movies

Horror, as a film genre, has existed for over a century, and such movies seek to elicit fear for entertainment ...

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ANTARA's top 10 Korean romantic comedy shows to binge-watch

Romantic comedies, or rom-coms, are a sub-genre of comedy and slice-of-life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous ...

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ANTARA's top 10 songs for standing up against haters and bullies

Bullying and hate speech have become the bane of the world today, causing much pain to scores of people. Be it ...

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Alluring dark poems of South American poets

Mama told us of a white forest in Russia: “... and we made little men out of snow and put hats we stole from ...

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From struggle, love, to humor: rich themes of Indonesian poems

Aku by Chairil Anwar is one of the Indonesian-language poems that are widely known across generations. Some ...

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Poems of Rumi, Gu Cheng are still touching hearts, lives

“Lover whispers to my ear, Better to be a prey than a hunter. Make yourself My fool. ... so you may ...

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Raw emotions, blunt words fill the world of modern poetry

It is fair to say that modern poetry can be rather polarizing and easily become a center of debate among poetry ...

Exploring beauty, romanticism through poems by Shakespeare, Allan Poe

Poetic language differs from ordinary one owing to its more artistic and intense form of expression. One must delve ...

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Looking thru beautifully brutal Asian action movies

“I’ve never really liked using these. They take away the rush. Squeezing a trigger, it’s like ...

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Exploring the taste of Asian drama movies

Amid the surge of Hollywood dramas, films coming from the Asian region can often tend to be overlooked but despite ...

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No more bad vibes with these Asian comedy movies

Thailand "What? The ATM is giving out free cash?" is where it all started. The scene is of two friends ...

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Beyond Hollywood: Asia's hidden gems on thriller movies

In the history of film thrillers, it is difficult to find an Asian name among filmmakers long dominated by the likes of ...

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When the ghost is in our mind

Watching scary movies arouses their own sensations and they can bring about mixed feelings such as surprise, stress, ...

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Valuable life lessons gleaned from animated movies

In the modern era, animation has metamorphosed owing to the emergence of computers that can create computer-generated ...

"Mariposa", a movie about the simplicity of teenage love

"Love is simple, but we sometimes make it so complicated". That is a quote from "Mariposa", a movie ...

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Struggle of classic authoresses writing under pseudonyms

"Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself or ended ...

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Capturing the gender inequality through Asian writers' eyes

Sugar-coated it may be, but even when a teacher tells girl students how amazing they are on doing detailed work being ...

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Impact of female fictional characters as role models

The presence of role models is deemed an important aspect to ensure young women and girls feel empowered to pursue the ...

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Deciphering Indonesia in its myriad shades through its female writers

International Women's Day is celebrated worldwide to honor women and their accomplishments and acknowledge what ...

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Give us a chance, say people with disabilities

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and ...