By Reuters August 9, 2023 | 09:38 GMT+7 Staff sort fruit at a Walmart in Beijing, China. Photo by Reuters/Tingshu Wang Chinese consumer prices posted their first annual decline in more than two years in July, while ex-factory prices extended their slide, data showed on Wednesday, as sluggish demand weighed on the economy. The consumer price index (CPI) for the month fell 0.3% year-on-year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said, a drop slightly slower than the median estimate for a decline 0.4% in a Reuters poll. This is the first year-on-year decline since February 2021. The CPI was unchanged…
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In an hour or two, the water – salty and muddy – will fill the newly dug hole. Sunardi and dozens of other residents of Karanganyar village in Central Java province then bring the water home to drink, wash and irrigate their slowly dying crops.”The drought in this village has been felt since April, and there has been no rain so far. Wells in this area have dried up, so residents can only draw water from the bed of the river,” said Sunardi, who only goes by one name. , told Reuters.”The plants here, like the corn, are all wilted.…
August 9, 2023 | 06:11 GMT+7 I have heard that reheating certain dishes, placed in plastic containers, in the microwave can cause cancer due to exposure to microwave radiation. Is it true? (Thuy, 32, Hanoi) Respond:Microwaves are low frequency, non-ionizing radiation. Other forms of non-ionizing radiation are radio and infrared. Non-ionizing radiation has no connection with cancer. Microwaves are low frequency, non-ionizing radiation, and non-ionizing radiation has no connection to cancer. Illustration by Pexels Unlike non-ionizing radiation, ionizing radiation, which is higher frequency waves like ultraviolet (UV) rays, X-rays, and gamma rays, can cause cancer. This type of wave breaks…
Model Ngoc Thuy. Photo by Milor Tran He sent a letter to the court demanding the removal of 13 of 39 assets from a list he had submitted, including five villas in the coastal town of Phan Thiet, seven automobiles and a motorcycle, citing that Thuy had sold those assets and “it may take longer for the court to verify” as his reason.He has now added other assets at his request.He wants Thuy to return an additional VND67.8 billion she has earned over the years from “renting out nine of her luxury apartments in District 1 from HCMC”.He also added…
South Korean actor Lee Do-huyn. Photo courtesy of Lee Do-hyun Actor Lee Do-hyun, known for his role in the acclaimed series “The Glory”, danced to Vietnamese hit “See Tinh” at a press conference and went viral on social media. He was attending a press conference before starting his military service. Her dance video has gone viral since August 5.Despite a less than smooth performance, fans still greatly appreciated his efforts and applauded their idol.”God gave this man everything except a talent for dancing,” one social media commenter joked.The previous week, K-pop sensation Blackpink also performed a dance cover of “See…
More than 1,000 buses have been deployed to move scouts out of the southwest, an area Typhoon Khanun is expected to hit as early as Wednesday.There were about 36,000 participants at the campsite near the town of Buan, and more than two-thirds have already left, Interior Minister Lee Sang-min told reporters.Seoul and its surrounding province of Gyeonggi would host nearly half of the scouts, with the rest spread across six other regions, Lee said. Police cars and helicopters will escort convoys to safety, he added.South Korean organizers are keen to minimize any further issues at the jamboree, the first global…
Samuel, who has worked on many Hollywood blockbusters, came to Vietnam at the invitation of director Dan Tran to handle the action sequences for “Ke An Danh”. Kieu Minh Tuan, who plays the main character, and most of the other actors on set have no martial arts experience, and Samuel is in charge of describing the steps in each scene and guiding them through practice. The 41-year-old stuntman and his team strive to bring iconic Vietnamese action scenes to a series of chases through the streets of Saigon. “It took me a long time, especially with the role of Tuan.…
By AFP August 8, 2023 | 15:04 GMT+7 People are seen outside gates controlled by facial recognition camera at Peking University in Beijing, China August 31, 2020. Photo by Reuters/Thomas Peter Companies using facial recognition in China will need to obtain consent or legal permission before collecting personal information, a draft regulation published on Tuesday said, while stipulating that the rules would not apply to certain bodies. A draft regulation released by China’s Cyberspace Administration warned that the use of technology should “abide by laws and regulations, conform to public order, uphold social morality, assume social responsibility and fulfill of…
Marked by heat waves and fires all over the world, the previous month was 0.33 degrees Celsius higher than the record set in July 2019 when the average temperature was 16.63 ° C (32 degrees Fahrenheit), a- he declared.”The month was 0.72°C warmer than the July 1991-2020 average,” he said.About 1.2 degrees Celsius of global warming since the late 1800s, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, has made heat waves hotter, longer and more frequent, while intensifying other extreme weather events like storms and floods.“Heat waves were recorded in several regions of the northern hemisphere, including southern Europe. Well…
By Linh On August 8, 2023 | 10:56 GMT+7 Singer Chi Pu is enjoying her newfound Chinese fame and popularity by appearing on the Chinese cooking and travel show “A Delicious Guess.” Singer Chi Pu is filming the Chinese cooking and travel show “A Delicious Guess”. Photo from Chi Pu’s Facebook Chi Pu first became a foreign frontier sensation with her spellbinding performances on the hugely popular Chinese reality TV music competition show “Women Who Make Waves.”The first episode of the new show, which aired earlier this month, features the Vietnamese singer exploring the culture and culinary specialties of the…