It’s been seven years since Britney Spears released her last album, but she’s still making news in the music space. Over the weekend Spears became a member of Spotify’s “Billions Club,” when her 2003 hit single “Toxic” hit a billion streams according to the streaming platform. She joins other artists – including ABBA with their 1976 single “Dancing Queen,” Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” from 1987 and DJ Khaled’s “Wild Thoughts” from 2017– to reach the achievement. The news comes on the heels of the recently released Spears collaboration with Will.i.am for a song titled “Mind Your Business.” The song…
Author: Katrina ANGELI
In a radical rebranding, Twitter owner Elon Musk has replaced Twitter’s iconic bird logo with X. Musk made the shock announcement of his plans early Sunday. By Monday morning US time, he tweeted that X.com now points to Twitter.com. “Interim X logo goes live later today,” he wrote, shortly before sharing a photo of Twitter’s headquarters lit up by a giant new X. The Twitter website now features the same logo, while the familiar blue bird is gone. Previously, Musk said he was bidding “adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.” Twitter (TWTR), founded in 2006, has used its vivid, globally recognized blue bird…
Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” raked in a stunning $155 million domestically over the weekend, giving the film the largest opening weekend of 2023 and the biggest-ever debut for a female director. The combined release of “Barbie” and Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” dubbed “Barbenheimer,” has become a pop culture sensation – and one that might revive a struggling movie industry. Barbenheimer was the fourth highest-grossing industry weekend of all time in North America, totaling $302 million Sunday. Analysts believe it will grow even more when final numbers are reported Monday. Coming in behind “Barbie,” “Oppenheimer” opened at $80.5 million domestically over the weekend, according…
The actor took to Instagram on Thursday to post a picture of himself atop a gold race car outside of a Las Vegas hotel. The car is labeled “BETMGM,” an online sports betting company. Foxx captioned it, “Thankful for my @betmgm family and a great few nights in Vegas. We got BIG things coming soon.” A photographer named Erik Umphery commented on the post, writing, “As always it was a great experience working with you the last 2 days.” Foxx was hospitalized for an undisclosed medical complication in April and has remained largely out of the spotlight since. He has been spotted in…
A liberal helping of Zac Lomax brilliance and the steady hand of Ben Hunt led the Dragons to a hard-fought 18-14 win over Wests Tigers at WIN Stadium on Thursday night. The victory was just the fifth of the season for the Dragons and gave them some breathing space over Wests Tigers in the fight to avoid the wooden spoon. The Dragons fired an early shot when Hunt took the line on from close range but he was denied by strong defence from Isaiah Papali’i. On the back of a high tackle penalty against Jack de Belin, Wests Tigers marched…
Transparency International PNG’s (TIPNG) Coalitions Engagement Lead, Ms. Barbra Ruin, is now engaged on a chapter-to-chapter exchange program with one of Transparency International’s leading chapter in the Asia Pacific region, TI Indonesia. Ruin leads the co-ordination of TIPNG’s engagements with the PNG Government through the Open Government Partnership (OGP) and the PNG Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), as well as various industries through the Community Coalition against Corruption. The learnings from the chapter exchange would help TIPNG develop a robust stakeholder engagement mechanism. During her exchange with TI Indonesia, Ruin will be involved in the chapter’s work on democratic governance…
St John Ambulance PNG continues its work in providing ambulance services to the people and with the tireless efforts, continue to save and help as many lives as they can. The partnership with the Government and the Provincial Health Authorities that St John Ambulance Council is focused on expanding ambulance service stations across the key provinces. The focus at the moment is in partnership with the Gulf Provincial Health Authority (PHA), the East Sepik PHA, and Madang PHA to re-establish the emergency ambulance stations in those provinces so that the people can have access to the triple one emergency service.…
The Teak project comprised of the planting of big timber trees that can be grown in commercial plantations was launched by the Provincial Government in Kokopo, East New Britain Province. The launching conceded with the inauguration of ENB Governor, Michael Marum’s patroonship to Organization for Industrial Spiritual and Culture (OISCA). OISCA Board of Chairman, Sinai Brown said that the partnership between OISCA and the Provincial Government is to give the governor the ownership and honour not to the institution but to the students because the school has graduated a lot of successful people. He said OSCA have big innovative programs…
In recent times, Papua New Guinea’s own international artist, Anslom, has received notable recognition from a growing listenership around the world, with the support of his management, Bassline. This recognition is immense and comes with its perks – something Anslom is grateful for and still coming into terms with after journeying more than 20 years in the music industry without government support. Anslom made it as finalist in the Los Angeles based InterContinental Music Award in the reggae category for his two hit songs, Love Me Again and Keep Hurting. In August, Anslom and his management will also travel to…
Manam Islanders in Madang Province will now save a K100 round trip to Madang Town to access banking services following the commissioning of its first BSP Cash Agent on the island. Last week, BSP Commissioned its first Agent in Baliau Village on Manam Island located off the coast of Madang. BSP Madang Branch Manager Mary Koi said accessing banking services involved traveling up to four hours to BSP Madang. “That will now be a thing of the past, with the commissioning of a BSP Agent on the island. BSP is proud to expand its network of Agents, bringing banking services…