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Borneo Post
26-05-2025
- Sport
- Borneo Post
Bruneian anglers dominate 13th Miri City International Deep Sea Fishing tourney
Ariffin inspects the impressive catches on display. MIRI (May 26): The 13th Miri City International Deep Sea Fishing Tournament at the Marina Bay Jetty concluded Saturday, with Bruneian anglers dominating both individual and team categories. The anglers spent five days and four nights battling the challenging waters of the South China Sea, and were dubbed 'warriors of the sea' by Miri deputy mayor Ariffin Mohammad. 'You faced burning sun, rolling waves and sleepless nights, yet your passion never wavered,' he said, acknowledging the tough conditions they had to endure. Mohd Taib Alikhan won the individual category with a 40.08 kilogramme (kg) amberjack, followed by Mohd Sufian Maidin with a 17.56 kg Dogtooth and Choi Yong with a 15.24 kg Dogtooth. In the team competition, Mohd Taib Alikhan, Mohd Sufian Maidin and Hardiman Jahar claimed first place with a combined catch of 47.36 kg. Felix Huong Chee Fung, Dennis Wong, and Tie Jou Wei secured second prize with a total of 37.04 kg, while Mohammad Yusrisham Awg Yusof, Sahrol Ali, and Musmah Boby Hardi Mustapa took third with 37 kg. Bong Teck Yew received a special award for the largest Giant Trevally, weighing 25.20kg. Ariffin (back row, third left) takes a group photo with the participants and organisers of the tournament. On sustainability, Ariffin stressed the shared responsibility to protect marine life. 'Your commitment to ethical fishing and marine conservation ensures these waters remain abundant. Let us keep leading by example for the fish, for the sport, and for future generations.' He also announced plans for the 2026 tournament, emphasising bigger surprises and a warm welcome for anglers from around the world. With a prize pool of RM70,000, including RM50,000 in cash and fishing equipment, the tournament drew anglers from across the region, further establishing Miri as one of Asia's leading big-game fishing destinations.
Metro
19-05-2025
- Business
- Metro
Supersize strawberries 'as big as kiwi fruit' set to hit shop shelves
The UK's exceptionally sunny spring is about to make an exciting change to your supermarket shop: strawberries so big, you may struggle to eat them. An unusually bright start to 2025 means they're naturally supersized this year, so you won't even have to pay extra for these chunky strawbs. Growers have said the fruits are ending up 10 to 20% larger than average, and with British strawberry season about to begin, your supermarket shop may soon look a little different. Bartosz Pinkosz, operations director at the Summer Berry Company, said: . 'Last week marked my nineteenth year of working in the berry industry – and during this time I have genuinely never seen a harvest produce such large berries consistently. Some are supersized – up to 30% larger than previous years, growing to the size of plums or even kiwi fruits.' The average is still 30g, he said, so not all the strawberries you see will be monsters – but it's promising if you love a traditional bowl of strawberries and cream while watching Wimbledon. Duncan Robertson, the founder of Dogtooth, a company making robot fruit pickers which are already in action on UK farms picking berries 24/7, told Metro they had seen some very large berries 'on occasion' this year. He said his robots are prepared for any size of strawberry, and could even work more efficiently if berries are bigger. 'The robot has been optimised to work with berries of all sizes – and because the time taken to pick a berry is nearly independent of its size, larger berries mean that the robot can harvest more kilograms per hour,' he said. But he warned that the largest berries might mean the robot has to slow its arms down or risk 'flinging fruit at passers by'. 2025 has seen an exceptionally sunny spring, the Met Office said, and this has been good for growing. Most regions have seen far less rainfall than usual, with bright days and cool nights: April was the sunniest on record for the UK since records began in 1910. Strawberries grow best in mild and sunny conditions, between 15 to 25°C, so the UK's weather so far has fit the bill. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Nick Marston, chairman of British Berry Growers which represents UK strawberry farmers, said: 'This year's early season strawberries are looking exceptional in both flavour and form. The warm weather, high light levels, and active pollination have come together beautifully. We're expecting a strong yield and outstanding taste quality this season.' Peter Judge, group managing director at S&A Produce, added: 'The warmer, sunnier bursts interspersed with cooler snaps earlier in the year allowed the crop to develop slowly. This has supported the creation of strong root systems, which create a really strong engine for the plants to grow fantastic fruit with excellent levels of natural sugars.' While big and sweet strawberries will probably be welcome, it also means that millions of households have already been put on notice for a potential drought, due to the sparse rainfall, however. Chris Weston, the leader of Thames Water, said the company is doing 'all we need to' to prepare for potential water shortages. More Trending Three years ago the firm came 'dangerously close' to running out of water for its 16million customers during record summer heatwaves. Explaining the weather, forecasters said 'large areas of high pressure, often extending from the Azores or mainland Europe, have lingered over or near the UK for extended periods since late February. 'High pressure typically brings settled, dry weather, and while it's not unusual to see such pressure systems in spring, their persistence this year has been more pronounced than usual. 'This spring, the jet stream has taken a more meandering path, often looping north of the UK. This has allowed high pressure to remain in place for longer stretches, effectively blocking the usual progression of weather fronts.' Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@ For more stories like this, check our news page.
Los Angeles Times
07-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Free association with Yorgos Lanthimos: The filmmaker on his first photography show
Yorgos Lanthimos needed to relieve stress while filming 'Poor Things' on soundstages in Budapest and 'Kinds of Kindness' on location around New Orleans. So the Oscar-nominated auteur of such unnerving, challenging movies as 'Dogtooth,' 'The Lobster' and 'The Favourite' took up art photography. 'Something clicked in me while making 'Poor Things': I went 'OK, why don't I just enjoy this?' ' the filmmaker told The Times at the opening of his first gallery exhibition, 'Yorgos Lanthimos: Photographs,' at Webber 939 gallery in L.A.'s Arts District. The show will be there through May 18. That impulse translated into nights developing stock in a makeshift darkroom Lanthimos rigged in his Budapest apartment's bathroom. Emma Stone, who would go on to win an Oscar for her performance in 'Poor Things,' often joined him after extended workdays at Origo Studios. 'We learned how to process both black-and-white and color,' Lanthimos explains. 'It became like our meditation, our relaxation.' A capacity crowd of art fans and industry folks gathered last weekend to check out the entirely photochemical-made prints — not a single digitized step was involved — lining the gallery's white and red brick walls. Predominantly monochrome photos taken during the 'Kindness' production feature Stone, co-star Jesse Plemons and sometimes random Louisianans posing, often, with their faces obscured or turned away from the lens. These works are featured in the book 'I Shall Sing These Songs Beautifully.' A three-sided black box in the back of the gallery showcases rich color tableaux and classic black-and-white portraits from 'Poor Things,' the latter taken the old-fashioned way with insertable plates of Ilford HP5 film in a wood-and-carbon-fiber Chamonix 4x5 camera. Collected in another art book, 'Dear God, the Parthenon Is Still Broken,' the photos depict co-star Margaret Qualley with paint smears on her face, Stone as Bella Baxter in Victorian period garb on the hood of a production vehicle beside a coffee cup and foam food container, and the radiantly hued seascape on a volume stage with a dormant fog machine in front of it. The rubble of the struck set for the Baxter home in that movie, a fully laid-out, purpose-built filming environment, is particularly heartrending: through Lanthimos' still lens, it looks like it was hit by a tornado. Such images may infer that the director is deconstructing his work in one medium with another, but there was nothing so intentional on his mind. 'It was, 'Why don't I see if, with my photography, I can find something here which is a different perspective from what is happening in the film?' ' says Lanthimos, who learned basic photography skills at film school in his native Athens, and snapped publicity shots for his early Greek features when there was no money for set photographers. 'I also had this privilege of being able to go wherever I want, in corners that nobody would ever be while they're watching the film,' he adds. 'Everything was a built set on 'Poor Things.' I was able to go behind and on top of it, see the construction and demolition, which were quite interesting for me to photograph both visually and emotionally. Having built whole houses to film in and then seeing them demolished, it's quite brutal.' The photographer took a different tack during the 'Kindness' shoot, turning his Mamiya 7 or Pentax 6x7 away from the production's real locations to capture life — or a dejected semblance of it — beyond the movie's mise-en-scene. In one large, redolent print, a woman in a white coat stands beside a deserted stretch of road, gazing beyond a patch of grass while the shadow of a utility pole bisects her body from head to heels. 'That image does what all great still photography does, which is suggest a narrative way beyond the frame and the subject,' observes Michael Mack, whose eponymous London publishing company made the 'Song' book. ('Parthenon' is from Greek publisher Void.) 'It has this drive that makes you question precisely what it is, what's happened, why is she there? You elaborate, manifest all these possibilities — it's close to his filmmaking in that sense. You have these ideas welling up, whether you like them or not.' As do such films as 'The Lobster,' Lanthimos' New Orleans images defy what you'd expect to see from the project. He's not about to articulate what we're supposed to make of them, either. 'I can't really, because it's mostly an exploration,' he says. 'How can you see this world in a different way? What else is there to reveal? 'I just enjoyed experimenting,' he elaborates. 'Filming a scene at night and then looking up and seeing a tree, imagining what it would look like if I flashed the tree and revealed all the details which I couldn't see with my eye.' Lanthimos also took out his camera while filming the upcoming 'Bugonia,' also starring Stone and Plemons. He doesn't know if if they will be part of another book or exhibition, but is certain that his new creative outlet is here to stay. 'You have a freer association,' Lanthimos says of this camera work. 'For some reason, we're more lenient with photography being less narrative, which is something that I love.'
