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CNA
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNA
Veteran actor Huang Shinan in the running for 1st Star Awards top 10 after 41 years, wife Pan Lingling has this to say
The nominees for Star Awards 2025 were announced recently and this year, there's a bumper crop of hopefuls for the Top 10 Most Popular Artistes awards. A total of 122 male and female artistes are in the running, up from 94 last year. Among the surprises was veteran actor Huang Shinan, husband of Mediacorp actress Pan Lingling, 54. Huang, 64, has been in showbiz for 41 years and this is his first Top 10 nod. Pan, who is also up for the Top 10 popularity award, took to Instagram to canvass votes for the both of them and cheer on Huang. She already has six Top 10 trophies. She posted a snippet of their conversation in which she asked: 'Hubby, it's your first time getting into the Top 10 – how do you feel?' Huang replied: 'Wifey, I still find it 'Nan' to believe!' making a pun on his name and the Chinese word for 'hard to believe'. Pan also shared a heartfelt message for Huang: 'Every year at the Star Awards, you've always been backstage supporting me. This year, you're finally nominated for the first time! Let's dress up for the big night and support each other at the Star Awards ceremony!' Huang entered showbiz in 1984 after graduating from SBC's (now Mediacorp) 6th Artiste Training Course. He left Mediacorp in 2007 after starting his own event management company so he could care for his two sons, Beckham Wee and Kynaston, now 26 and 23. He made his showbiz comeback in Mediacorp drama Never Too Late, his first drama in 10 years since 2014's You Can Be An Angel.
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Yahoo
Family haunted by Nazi lampshade made of human skin
Warning: Article contains distressing content and pictures A family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and brought home for evidence. The macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the Holocaust. Buchenwald, near Weimar, Germany, had been chosen by the SS division of the Nazis as the place that produced objects made from human skin - preferably skin that had been tattooed. Mr Edwards' daughter Baroness Liln Golding, 91, from Caerphilly, said it weighed heavily on her father for the rest of his life. Recalling the moment she opened the door to him on his return, she said: "It was so traumatic just to see his face. I wanted to give him a hug. But I couldn't. "He said to me 'don't touch me, I'm covered in lice'. That moment was engraved in my heart, from my whole being." Hitler's watch sells for $1.1m in controversial sale Book tells how city on Nazi hitlist coped in war Did Nazi Rudolf Hess have a family link to Wales? During the April 1945 visit, Mr Edwards and his fellow MPs were shown around the camp and spoke to those who had been inmates there. He was given a piece of a lampshade as evidence to take back to Britain - the original was broken up and, other than the frame, no other parts remained traceable. Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes". She added: "We need to remember this, so it can never happen again." Despite wanting to preserve this valuable evidence, Mr Edwards could not face having the piece of lampshade in his home, so gave it to his son to keep safe. His granddaughter Amanda Kynaston was told about the object when she was a teenager and how it was given to her grandfather by the head of the American army that liberated the camp. "I didn't appreciate its significance then, it was kept in our house in Caerphilly but my dad kept it under lock and key," she said. "So I was aware that this object was kept in the family home over the years." Like her grandfather and father, Ms Kynaston wanted to preserve this evidence and when her dad died, her mum came to live with her a brought the piece of lampshade with her. It was "locked away in our study... a case of out of sight, out of mind". After her mother died, Ms Kynaston and her siblings thought it would be a good time to find a new home for the lampshade piece. It was felt that Buchenwald would be the ideal place and Ms Kynaston was contacted by Prof Myfanwy Lloyd of Oxford University who had been trying to track down the lampshade section as part of her research. "As a family, we were so grateful to have been contacted by Myfanwy, who was able to facilitate the lampshade's return to Buchenwald," said Ms Kynaston. "I felt a real mixture of emotions about this - I was very relieved that the responsibility of keeping the lampshade had been taken off me. "To me, it just felt right for it to go back to where it came from. "I also felt deep pride in my grandfather Ness and his part in gathering evidence of the Holocaust." Prof Lloyd said the group that visited in 1945 was "profoundly affected by what they saw in the camp – the brutalised and sick survivors, as well as the unburied bodies and the crematorium. "It utterly convinced them of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and gave them compelling evidence to share with the British public through their parliamentary report, newspaper articles and even newsreel film," she added. "Many, including Ness Edwards, would feel the effects for years to come – he suffered nightmares, and others reported they would always be haunted by what they had seen." Holm Kirsten from the Buchenwald Memorial museum said the piece of lampshade was identified "on the basis of its shape and condition as part of a desk lamp that stood in the study of the Buchenwald camp commandants, by comparing it with a series of historical photographs". He added that tests done in a German forensic laboratory confirmed it was human skin based on the grain pattern of the surface, arrangement and distribution of hair pores and comparisons with other samples. For ethical reasons, there are no plans to display the piece, but a photo of the lamp on the commandant of Buchenwald's desk is on the Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Besancon's website. Charles commissions Holocaust survivor portraits Portraits of last Holocaust survivors unveiled Holocaust survivors 'could help' child refugees
BBC News
04-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Holocaust: Caerphilly family haunted by Nazi's skin lamp
Warning: Article contains distressing content and picturesA family said they have felt haunted for 80 years by a piece of a lampshade made from human skin seized from a concentration camp and brought home for macabre object was given to then-Caerphilly MP Ness Edwards, who went with a parliamentary delegation to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945 to gather evidence of the horrors of the near Weimar, Germany, had been chosen by the SS division of the Nazis as the place that produced objects made from human skin - preferably skin that had been Edwards' daughter Baroness Liln Golding, 91, from Caerphilly, said it weighed heavily on her father for the rest of his life. Recalling the moment she opened the door to him on his return, she said: "It was so traumatic just to see his face. I wanted to give him a hug. But I couldn't. "He said to me 'don't touch me, I'm covered in lice'. That moment was engraved in my heart, from my whole being." During the April 1945 visit, Mr Edwards and his fellow MPs were shown around the camp and spoke to those who had been inmates was given a piece of a lampshade as evidence to take back to Britain - the original was broken up and, other than the frame, no other parts remained traceable. Baroness Golding said her dad told her of people at the camps who were "skin and bones with vacant eyes".She added: "We need to remember this, so it can never happen again."Despite wanting to preserve this valuable evidence, Mr Edwards could not face having the piece of lampshade in his home, so gave it to his son to keep safe. His granddaughter Amanda Kynaston was told about the object when she was a teenager and how it was given to her grandfather by the head of the American army that liberated the camp."I didn't appreciate its significance then, it was kept in our house in Caerphilly but my dad kept it under lock and key," she said."So I was aware that this object was kept in the family home over the years." Like her grandfather and father, Ms Kynaston wanted to preserve this evidence and when her dad died, her mum came to live with her a brought the piece of lampshade with was "locked away in our study... a case of out of sight, out of mind". After her mother died, Ms Kynaston and her siblings thought it would be a good time to find a new home for the lampshade was felt that Buchenwald would be the ideal place and Ms Kynaston was contacted by Prof Myfanwy Lloyd of Oxford University who had been trying to track down the lampshade section as part of her research. "As a family, we were so grateful to have been contacted by Myfanwy, who was able to facilitate the lampshade's return to Buchenwald," said Ms Kynaston."I felt a real mixture of emotions about this - I was very relieved that the responsibility of keeping the lampshade had been taken off me. "To me, it just felt right for it to go back to where it came from."I also felt deep pride in my grandfather Ness and his part in gathering evidence of the Holocaust." Prof Lloyd said the group that visited in 1945 was "profoundly affected by what they saw in the camp – the brutalised and sick survivors, as well as the unburied bodies and the crematorium."It utterly convinced them of the atrocities committed by the Nazis and gave them compelling evidence to share with the British public through their parliamentary report, newspaper articles and even newsreel film," she added."Many, including Ness Edwards, would feel the effects for years to come – he suffered nightmares, and others reported they would always be haunted by what they had seen." Holm Kirsten from the Buchenwald Memorial museum said the piece of lampshade was identified "on the basis of its shape and condition as part of a desk lamp that stood in the study of the Buchenwald camp commandants, by comparing it with a series of historical photographs".He added that tests done in a German forensic laboratory confirmed it was human skin based on the grain pattern of the surface, arrangement and distribution of hair pores and comparisons with other ethical reasons, there are no plans to display the piece, but a photo of the lamp on the commandant of Buchenwald's desk is on the Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Besancon's website.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Legal body worried by Cambridge protest injunction
A legal organisation that offers help to rights campaigners has criticised the University of Cambridge's attempts to prevent protesters causing disruptions. Last week, a High Court judge granted an injunction, applied for by the university, aimed at preventing pro-Palestinian demonstrators from disrupting a graduation ceremony. The European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) has said the injunction the university sought was "broader" than comparable orders and would prohibit a "wide array of conduct". The university has said any claim that it was trying to "restrict protest" was "ridiculous". Mr Justice Fordham is expected to consider arguments about further injunctions at a future hearing. Lawyers representing the university made the application in the wake of protests in Cambridge following the outbreak of the current conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas following the latter's killing of 1,200 people across the border in Israel and the taking of 250 Israeli hostages on 7 October 2023. Pro-Palestinian campaigners alleged the university had not acted on previous agreements to review investments concerning the arms industry. The university said in response that it was committed to reviewing its "approach to responsible investment". ELSC appointed representation and wrote to Mr Justice Fordham to share its concerns about wider injunctions and he agreed it could "intervene" in the litigation. Grant Kynaston, barrister for ELSC, said it had only become aware of the university's injunction two days before Thursday's High Court hearing in London. In the ELSC's written argument, Mr Kynaston said the "scope" of the order the world-renowned university wanted was "broader than any comparable newcomer injunction in the university protest context". "It would potentially affect all those who manifest any speech action or belief 'connected with the Palestine-Israel conflict', whether or not in the context of protest," he argued. "It would cover highly symbolic properties in the heart of the University of Cambridge. It would prohibit a wide array of conduct, all of which is said to somehow ground a claim in trespass or nuisance." He added that "severe human rights and equality implications" were involved in the issues raised in the litigation and the issue "required determination" after consideration of "full legal submissions and evidence". Mr Kynaston said ELSC had "the legal and other resources" available to "assist the court". Yasser Vanderman, the barrister who led the university's legal team, said some "defendants" formed part of a "well organised" group with "strong and committed" views on the conflict. The university wanted "injunctive relief" to "restrain threatened acts of trespass and nuisance", he said. Mr Vanderman asked for an injunction to last five years - with annual reviews - arguing that given the "long-standing nature" of the Gaza conflict, such a time-frame was reasonable. A university spokesman said it was trying to protect students and staff. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. Protesters barred from disrupting degree ceremony Students occupy building in Gaza war protest Why are Israel and Hamas fighting in Gaza? Cambridge University European Legal Support Centre
BBC News
04-03-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
University of Cambridge Gaza injunction bid worries legal centre
A legal organisation that offers help to rights campaigners has criticised the University of Cambridge's attempts to prevent protesters causing week, a High Court judge granted an injunction, applied for by the university, aimed at preventing pro-Palestinian demonstrators from disrupting a graduation European Legal Support Centre (ELSC) has said the injunction the university sought was "broader" than comparable orders and would prohibit a "wide array of conduct".The university has said any claim that it was trying to "restrict protest" was "ridiculous". Mr Justice Fordham is expected to consider arguments about further injunctions at a future hearing. Lawyers representing the university made the application in the wake of protests in Cambridge following the outbreak of the current conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas following the latter's killing of 1,200 people across the border in Israel and the taking of 250 Israeli hostages on 7 October campaigners alleged the university had not acted on previous agreements to review investments concerning the arms university said in response that it was committed to reviewing its "approach to responsible investment".ELSC appointed representation and wrote to Mr Justice Fordham to share its concerns about wider injunctions and he agreed it could "intervene" in the Kynaston, barrister for ELSC, said it had only become aware of the university's injunction two days before Thursday's High Court hearing in London. 'Implications' In the ELSC's written argument, Mr Kynaston said the "scope" of the order the world-renowned university wanted was "broader than any comparable newcomer injunction in the university protest context"."It would potentially affect all those who manifest any speech action or belief 'connected with the Palestine-Israel conflict', whether or not in the context of protest," he argued."It would cover highly symbolic properties in the heart of the University of Cambridge. It would prohibit a wide array of conduct, all of which is said to somehow ground a claim in trespass or nuisance."He added that "severe human rights and equality implications" were involved in the issues raised in the litigation and the issue "required determination" after consideration of "full legal submissions and evidence".Mr Kynaston said ELSC had "the legal and other resources" available to "assist the court". Yasser Vanderman, the barrister who led the university's legal team, said some "defendants" formed part of a "well organised" group with "strong and committed" views on the university wanted "injunctive relief" to "restrain threatened acts of trespass and nuisance", he Vanderman asked for an injunction to last five years - with annual reviews - arguing that given the "long-standing nature" of the Gaza conflict, such a time-frame was reasonable.A university spokesman said it was trying to protect students and staff. Follow Cambridgeshire news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
