By AFP  April 28, 2023 | 02:16pm GMT+7 Thai police officers stand guard in Bangkok. Photo by AFP Thai police have arrested the wife of a senior officer on suspicion of murdering nine people by poisoning them with cyanide, officials said Wednesday. The woman, aged in her 30s, was arrested in Bangkok on Tuesday over the killings, which took place over several years.Investigators believe money was the motive in the killings, Royal Thai Police spokesperson Archayon Kraithong told AFP.Surachate Hakparn, the deputy national police chief told reporters that a 10th victim had survived after vomiting.”The suspect went to have dinner…
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The 32nd SEA Games will take place from May 5 to 17 in Cambodia – though several kick off a week early — with most events being held in the capital Phnom Penh.Football and some other sports begin on April 29, Saturday. People queue up for tickets outside the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh on April 24, 2023. Photo by Cambodia 2023 Facebook The Cambodia SEA Games Organizing Committee has announced that all events will be free including 20,000 tickets for the first two matches in men’s football.But the tickets ran out almost instantly.Many spectators have complained about the messy…
By Linh Le  April 28, 2023 | 12:54 p.m. GMT+7 Actress and comedian Ali Wong paid homage to her Vietnamese roots by wearing a traditional ao dai at the Time 100 Gala in New York this week. Wong walks the Time 100 Gala 2023 red carpet in a Vietnamese ao dai that was both traditional and modern in design on April 25, 2023. Photo by AFP Wong, 41, walked the red carpet at Lincoln Center on Tuesday in an all-white ao dai (traditional Vietnamese tunic), reported Footwear News.Her classic outfit boasted some modern touches added by its contemporary designers.The design…
Intel on Thursday posted a massive fall in sales for the first quarter of 2023 because of a steep drop in the demand for semiconductors, especially those for PCs.Rising prices, a global chip glut and poor demand for hardware also punished Intel’s rival Samsung Electronics, which earlier on Thursday reported its worst quarterly profits in 14 years.Intel’s revenue fell 36% to $11.7 billion in the three-month period and the semiconductor giant posted a loss of $2.8 billion, its biggest ever for a quarter.The loss and sales collapse were slightly less catastrophic than expectations, and the stock rallied three percent in…
Their warning is the latest in a series of statements from campaigners and experts warning that Africa is facing an unprecedented food crisis.There is a death by starvation every 36 seconds on average in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia, the UN’s children’s organization UNICEF and NGOs Care and Oxfam told a joint news conference in Paris.Close to 20 million people in the Sahel region are living in food insecurity, they added.In Burkina Faso, a country destabilized by a jihadist rebellion, three times as many children were killed between January and September 2022 as in the same period a year earlier. The…
By AFP  April 28, 2023 | 07:44am GMT+7 Indonesian nationals are evacuated by bus from Khartoum to Port Sudan. Photo by AFP The first group of Indonesians evacuated from strife-torn Sudan returned home Friday on a charter flight from Saudi Arabia, officials said. Southeast Asia’s most populous country has joined nations around the world in rushing to move their citizens to safety by land, air and sea after clashes between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries killed hundreds and injured thousands.Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and military chief Yudo Margono greeted the 385 nationals – 248 women and 137 men –…
By Nhu Anh  April 27, 2023 | 08:13pm GMT+7 Hong Kong star actress Charmaine Sheh revealed that she could never leave Happy Valley without paying a visit to a Vietnamese pho restaurant. On Tuesday, Sheh, 48, posted on her Instagram account photos of her eating at a Vietnamese restaurant in Happy Valley, Hong Kong.She said in the accompanied caption that she could never miss the chance to drop by the place whenever she is in the neighborhood. Charmaine Sheh enjoys her bowl of pho. Photo by Charmaine Sheh Instagram As seen in the post, the actress ordered pho, spring rolls…
By AFP  April 27, 2023 | 02:00 p.m. GMT+7 A freshwater dolphin swimming in the Mekong River in Cambodia’s Kratie province, February 16, 2023. Photo by AFP Cambodian leader Hun Sen on Thursday canceled a law he created just two months ago to protect critically endangered Mekong dolphins as the mammals continue to die from illegal fishing activities. The population of Irrawaddy dolphins in the river Mekong has dwindled from 200, when the first census was taken in 1997, to just 89 in 2020 largely due to illegal fishing and habitat loss.Hun Sen issued a new decree in February creating…
Vietnamese photographer Pham Tuan Ngoc was studying in Paris when he took “The Odeon Kiss.” The 14 photographs were chosen from the “Regards Croisés” photo contest in which 60 Vietnamese and French photographers submitted images they created in each other’s countries. The contest was co-hosted by the Embassy of France in Hanoi, the Consulate General of France in Ho Chi Minh City, and the French Institute in Vietnam. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam-France diplomatic ties, the photos are on display outside the Consulate General of France in Ho Chi Minh City. . Source: Internet
It was just another day in the life of Myanmar’s first snake removal squad, taking pythons and cajoling cobras from dangerous entanglements with the human world before returning them to their natural habitat.Stuffed into the sacks were three months’ worth of work, rescued from homes and apartments around Yangon and cared for at the monastery until they were fit for release to the wild.”I love snakes because they are not deceitful,” Shwe Lei told AFP at the snake shelter run by the group, a python entered around her body.”If you acknowledge their nature, they are lovely.”Her mentor Ko Toe Aung,…