Truth may be stranger than fiction but it’s seldom more entertaining, especially when projected onto a big screen at 24 frames per second.

Officials in Burma said the military-backed government has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming film.

A bleak tale of twisted love in the frozen hinterland with ‘evil’ – according to the tribal Shamans – Saiva (Yeoh) wandering the wasteland with young companion Anja (Krusiec) and rescuing a badly-injured Loki (Bean).

A dark drama set in the frozen wastes of the Arctic where two sisters (Yeoh and Krusiec) are forced to flee from rampaging soldiers to an isolated island.

Actress Michelle Yeoh is ecstatic after she was awarded the French Legion of Honour in her native Malaysia.

TAIWANESE health officials have confirmed the island’s first SARS death in 16 days, as German scientists reported that an ingredient in liquorice has proven remarkably successful at combating the virus.

QUARANTINE measures appear to be paying off in Hong Kong’s fight against SARS and its leader voiced growing confidence about beating the disease. But experts said yesterday it’s unclear when the crisis will end.

A SARS patient with diarrhoea infected other people in a Hong Kong apartment complex as the disease apparently spread into homes through a sewage pipe linked to poorly sealed water drains, an official report said yesterday.

Health officials said today that 88 more people from one Hong Kong flats complex had fallen ill with the “Asian flu” mystery SARS disease, bringing the total number of cases there to 213 and sparking fears that it will keep spreading.