Michelle Yeoh is a Malaysian actress. She was credited for Michelle Khan in her early films in Hong Kong. She rose to fame in 1990 after her James Bond movie “Tomorrow Never Dies” and Ang Lee’s Oscar-winning “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in 2000. You may know her in Crazy Rich Asians and Avatar Way of Water. The Oscars rolled around March 12 of this year. In a stunning victory, Michelle Yeoh took home one of her very first Oscars awards for best actress. She made history and was the first Asian American to win in the category and the first woman of color to receive the award in two decades. Yeoh had won her award for her role in “Everything Everywhere All at once.” Her victory speech was screened live at an event in the capital Kuala Lumpur with her 84-year-old mother present. Yeoh has been a force in filmmaking since the eighties, rising to fame for her starring film roles. Not long after the Oscars, false rumors sparked that a national holiday had been declared something that the country’s government dispelled. In a statement published on its Facebook page, the office of prime minister Anwar Ibrahim debunked a doctored image that had been making the rounds on chat apps. The image had been dated March 14, and seen by CNN, showed a doctored news article from a Malaysian newspaper.

 The star bearing headline: “PM Anwar declared a public holiday on Wednesday: “This is the pride of a nation.” It had appeared to reference that Anwar congratulated Yeoh on her win.  There wasn’t any truth to claims of an Oscar public holiday, the statement from Anwar’s Office read. “The news is false,” it said. “The public is requested not to spread or share any uncertain or false information. Media Group also said the image was a “misrepresentation of (its) actual news coverage.”