By Reuters  April 15, 2023 | 09:25am GMT+7 Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, the prime ministerial candidate from the United Thai Nation Party (Ruam Thai Sang Chart Party), plays with water as he celebrates the Songkran holiday which marks the Thai New Year in Bangkok, Thailand, April 14, 2023 Photo by United Nation Thai Party/Handout via Reuters Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha got a soaking on Friday as a surprise participant in one of the world’s biggest water fights, showing no signs of any dampened spirits from a slump in popularity just weeks from an election. Dressed in the bright…
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By Reuters  April 15, 2023 | 09:20 am GMT+7 Crews are seen on the flight deck of the USS Nimitz, off the coast of Busan, South Korea, March 27, 2023. The ROK-US combined maritime exercise is a part of Warrior Shield. Photo by Jeon Heon-Kyun/Pool via Reuters The United States, Japan and South Korea said in a joint statement they discussed the regularization of missile defense and anti-submarine exercises to deter and respond to North Korea’s nuclear and missile threats. The announcement was made at the 13th Defense Trilateral Talks held on Friday in Washington DC to exchange assessments of…
By Que Chi  April 15, 2023 | 09:03 am GMT+7 A scene cut from “La Passion de Dodin Bouffant” by Tran Anh Hung Vietnamese-born French director Tran Anh Hung’s latest work, “La Passion de Dodin Bouffant,” has been nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. The nominees for the Palme d’Or – the grand award of Cannes — was announced by the organizers on Thursday.Set in the French culinary world in 1885, the film tells the love story between chef Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) and gourmet customer Dodin Bouffat (Benoit Magimel).According to Variety, the filming took place…
Answer:Mixing alcohol with fresh fruit with clear origins such as plums, apples and grapes does not only go well together, but also decreases the alcohol content. For example, oranges can be mixed with gin, vodka, etc. This is a popular mixing technique in Western countries.In Vietnam, alcohol can be soaked in different types of fruits such as apples, apricots, wild bananas, plums and more to make it taste better and have a moderate level of alcohol content.However, mixing alcohol with soft drinks, beer, caffeine, or industrial fruits with colorants is extremely harmful.If you mix alcohol with ingredients that have no…
It ended up being a life-changing experience for both of them. Anh and his father have now successfully climbed four of Vietnam’s 15 tallest peaks.”These trips create change, not just for my son, but also for me,” said Nam, a 36-year-old engineer at a South Korean cooperation.In late 2021, when a friend introduced Nam to a mountain-climbing group, he became enthralled with the natural beauty of the terraced rice fields in the highlands.He then began researching and planning a trekking journey for his wife and son to join him on.”But Quang Anh’s only six, how can he climb mountains?” Nam’s…
The West has imposed a slew of sanctions against Russia since Moscow attacked Ukraine in February 2022, including price caps on its oil exports and EU embargoes.But the IEA said in its monthly oil market report that total shipments from Russia rose by 600,000 barrels per day to 8.1 million bpd last month, the highest level since April 2020.While Russia’s oil revenues rebounded by $1 billion to reach $12.7 billion, they were still down 43 percent compared to a year ago.The Paris-based agency said much of the increase was due to a rise in exports of oil products, which returned…
Jack Teixeira, an employee of the US Air Force National Guard, was to make an initial appearance in a Massachusetts federal court, a district court official told AFP.His dramatic arrest was broadcast live on US TV networks Thursday following a week-long investigation into one of the most damaging leaks of classified information since the 2013 dump of National Security Agency documents by Edward Snowden.US Attorney General Merrick Garland told reporters Thursday that Teixeira had been arrested “in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.”News footage of the operation in the southern…
Earlier this month, Linh, who has 3.7 million followers on TikTok, was hired by a pharmaceutical company to sell two of their shampoo products on a livestream. The products were sold for price tags of VND11,000 and VND18,000 ($0.47 and $0.77), compared to retail prices of VND60,000-79,000 the company set for distributors.The company later told Tuoi Tre Newspaper that the offer they made with Linh was a short-time-only special promotion and that the number of products sold during the livestream was limited. They issued an apology to distributors on Facebook, while Linh also apologized in a video posted on April…
Ke Huy Quan wins the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for “Everything Everywhere All at Once” during the Oscars show at the 95th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles on March 12, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Carlos Barria Time magazine has named Vietnamese-born American actor Ke Huy Quan in its annual list of the “100 Most Influential People in the World.” British actor Tom Hiddleston wrote in the US publication about Quan: “His positivity, his fight to keep the dream alive, is the most profound kind of spiritual strength. These qualities are his unique gifts. At last, the world has recognized…
By Ngan Anh  April 14, 2023 | 11:08 am GMT+7 My husband and I have been married for six months. He likes to indulge himself, has no opinion of his own and is easily influenced by his friends. And so I’m the one that takes care of our finances. My husband is an honest man and his income is enough to take care of himself if he were single. He helps me with household chores and he’s not patriarchal. We combine our incomes and I pay for the electricity, water, and food and manage to put aside some money.I thought…