BERLIN - TWENTY years after the fall of the Berlin Wall some of its enduring murals, like one depicting East Germany's Erich Honecker engaged in a fraternal kiss with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, are inspiring a different sort of art.

Images from the East Side Gallery - a surviving stretch of the wall that artists decorated with colorful paintings after the 1989 opening of the border - are the inspiration for a fashion collection unveiled Tuesday called Mauerkleider, or 'Wall Clothes.'

PARIS - A SKETCHBOOK of drawings by Spanish master Pablo Picasso valued at eight million euros (S$16 million) has been stolen from a Paris museum, police said on Tuesday.

IF producer Bill Kong had his way, he probably would not be doing this interview.

Speaking to Life! over the line from Hong Kong, the modest 56-year-old says in English: 'I don't believe in standing up in front to do publicity. A producer is not the most important person. We only help to realise what is in the mind of the director.