By Reuters  April 30, 2023 | 08:44am GMT+7 Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping via phone line, in Kyiv, Ukraine April 26, 2023. Photo by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy carries a pistol and would have fought to the death with his inner circle had the Russians stormed his Kyiv headquarters at the start of the war, he said in an interview shown on Saturday. “I know how to shoot. Could you imagine (a headline like) ‘The President of Ukraine is taken captive by Russians?’ This is a disgrace. I believe…
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Marcos is due in the United States on Sunday for a four-day visit that Philippines official say is aimed at reaffirming the special relationship between the Philippines and the United States, which are long-time allies.The senior US administration official said it was impossible to underestimate its strategic importance of the Philippines, although the relationship was more than just about security.”We will roll out some deliverables during the next week that will highlight business engagement but also some military enhancements as well,” he said on Saturday.The official said that as part of moves to boost commercial ties, US Commerce Secretary Gina…
Co Ngan’s 75-year-old boyfriend drives her around on April 26, 2023. Photo from Ngan’s Instagram Co, 29, said that during the pandemic, due to social distancing rules, she and her now 75-year-old boyfriend Wynn Katz were having to maintain a long-distance relationship, which led to frequent arguments.After Katz’s 73rd birthday in the summer of 2021, the couple had a huge row and did not talk for weeks before deciding to end their relationship.”I was stressed about not having an American visa despite waiting for a year. Our work and plans had to be postponed as Vietnam and the US closed…
Co Ngan’s 75-year-old boyfriend drives her around on April 26, 2023. Photo from Ngan’s Instagram Co, 29, said that during the pandemic, due to social distancing rules, she and her now 75-year-old boyfriend Wynn Katz were having to maintain a long-distance relationship, which led to frequent arguments.After Katz’s 73rd birthday in the summer of 2021, the couple had a huge row and did not talk for weeks before deciding to end their relationship.”I was stressed about not having an American visa despite waiting for a year. Our work and plans had to be postponed as Vietnam and the US closed…
April 30, 2023 | 06:00 am GMT+7 My family has a habit of storing meat inside the freezer. Is this harmful? (Thao, 31, Vinh Phuc). I heard from many people that eating meat that has been left for too long in the freezer can increase the risk of food poisoning, and that it might cause cancer in the long run.Answer: The rumor about poisonous substances that formed in refrigerated food is false. However, it will be true if the food is left for too long inside the freezer.Any kind of food will last longer when stored inside a fridge, but…
Sudan has plunged into chaos and lawlessness since the fighting erupted on April 15 between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his number two Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).Burhan and Daglo have agreed to multiple truces since the start of the conflict, but none has effectively taken hold, with each side blaming the other for breaching them.The latest three-day ceasefire was agreed Thursday after mediation led by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and the United Nations aimed at securing a more lasting truce.”We woke up once again to…
By AFP  April 29, 2023 | 09:12pm GMT+7 Police were searching for a gunman believed to have shot dead five Hondurans including an eight-year-old child at a house in Texas, the local sheriff said Saturday, in the latest mass shooting to hit the United States. Investigators believe the gunman had been firing his AR-15 style gun in a neighboring yard when the victims asked him to stop, as they were trying to get a baby to sleep, US media reported.San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers described a horrifying scene when authorities went to the residence after receiving a call about…
Thu Hang, 32, from Nha Trang and Long Thanh, 39, from Ho Chi Minh City met by chance in Hanoi. She was on a business trip alone and he was traveling by himself in 2017.”She’s pretty, in good shape, has great skin and her voice is very attractive”, Thanh recalled.During their first Hanoi encounter, Hang felt like she was meeting a relative when the Southern gentleman approached and talked to her. The two exchanged phone numbers and went for a few drinks on Ta Hien Street in the Old Quarter.Thanh works at a university, does a variety of odd information…
The man, identified in Dutch media only as “Jonathan M.”, 41, was dragged to court by a foundation protecting the rights of donor children and the mother of one of the children allegedly fathered from his sperm.Dutch clinical guidelines say a donor should not father more than 25 children in 12 families, but judges said the man had helped produce between 550 and 600 children since he started as a sperm donor in 2007.The court therefore “prohibits the defendant from donating his semen to new prospective parents after the issuing of this judgment”, judge Thera Hesselink said.Jonathan M. may also…
The impact of US interest rate hikes on the region’s capital flows may also be discussed when finance ministers and central bank chiefs of ASEAN+3 – which groups the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, China and South Korea- meet on Tuesday . Japan, which co-chairs with Indonesia this year’s meeting of ASEAN+3 nations, hopes to discuss the idea of strengthening currency swap lines known as Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM), Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki told a news conference on Friday. “It’s not as if we’re heading into a major crisis now,” Suzuki said. “Even so, we must…