Disney’s new live-action “Mulan” is coming at a time when the entertainment world is still feeling tremors from the success of “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Parasite.” It was a very different landscape when the animated “Mulan” debuted in 1998: U.S. audiences were far less used to the presence of Asians onscreen, and many Asian American moviegoers felt less comfortable with depictions of themselves.

NEW YORK >> Loud and happy screams erupt in unison from the seven-member pop stars BTS when they hear they have notched their first No. 1 hit on the all-genre Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Out of all of Disney’s animated films, ” Mulan ” was the one that made the most sense as a live-action remake. Not that there haven’t been good and charming live-action remakes over the past decade — Kenneth Branagh’s “Cinderella” being at the top of the pack — but with most of them no matter how expensive or carefully executed or reverent to the source material, I usually walk out wishing I’d just watched the animated version instead.

The Chinese adage, “Far better to be a dog in days of peace than to be a human in times of war” has been interpreted in the Western world as a curse, “May you live in interesting times.”

Food delivery services cost money. That wasn’t considered a problem by most Hawaii restaurant owners prior to COVID-19, when delivery was a small part of their businesses, and an expense customers could opt for when they didn’t feel like leaving home for a meal.

When Panda General Store opened just a few weeks ago, the online shopping site offered just five pre-packed grocery boxes.

In the Before Times, we would now be in the afterglow of our annual outpouring of devotion to gelatinous meat in a can, the Waikiki Spam Jam. That tribute, normally held in the spring, was nixed along with all such festivities because of the pandemic.

It was a standing joke back in the 1970s that if you wanted to become a master sommelier, you should move to Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii’s bench was where Maj Forsberg’s basketball dream seemed destined to meet its thwarted and logical end.

Bank of Hawaii announced Thursday that its new health screening app called Health Check is available for free at the App Store and Google Play.