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Twin brothers who star in their own video skits about daily life have become the most popular influencers on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, amassing more than 100 million followers in four years.

After his role as a lovable ghost in the Netflix superhit The Umbrella Academy, Justin H Min now stars as an android in After Yang. But informing these nuanced performances are some very real human life experiences, as Aaron Hicklin finds out

Yang Bell is Hexham General Hospital's unofficial mascot, lending his calming presence to patients at the doors of the hospital

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Kogonada’s enigmatic sci-fi drama channels Charlie Kaufman and Philip K Dick as Colin Farrell and Jodie Turner Smith try to fix the faulty AI bot they bought for their adopted daughter

One of Shanghai's oldest neighbourhoods is barely clinging to life as the city presses ahead with demolition and redevelopment plans.

Prosecutors decide woman bundled into suitcase and driven off in car boot was surprise gone wrong

Key takeaways: •      Leading Sichuan-style hotpot chain Yang Guofu has filed for a Hong Kong IPO, extending a recent series of restaurant listing applications •      Company has expanded rapidly using a franchise model, but poses investor risk due to its nature as a family-run business

They’re known as “techno-sapiens.” In order to raise their adopted Chinese daughter, a struggling Anglo tea shop owner and a Black businesswoman — married but growing ever-more-faintly distant from each other — go to a discount retail outlet known as Second Siblings and buy a used techno, a companion wired…

In Kogonada’s directorial debut, “Columbus,” he explored the “modernism of the soul,” through the architecture of Columbus, Indiana, and the unique connection between two strangers seeing each other, and themselves, against the backdrop of the environments they share. In his second feature film, “After Yang,” Kogonada once again takes up…

Thoughtful and nicely unsettling, sci-fi film finds meaning in the memories of an automated companion.