A screenshot of Hoang Thuy Linh in the music video for “See Tinh” Hoang Thuy Linh’s song “See Tinh” continued to trend in South Korea after it was played during the famous TV program “Running Man,” in which actress Shin Ye-eun danced to the music. In the latest episode of Running Man that aired on broadcaster SBS Sunday, Shin danced to “See Tinh” (See Love). This is not the first time that Shin danced to the song. During a program broadcast on MBC in mid-March, Shin also played “See Tinh” in the car and vibed to the rhythm.Thanks to Shin,…
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By Tan Cao  April 10, 2023 | 12:00 p.m. GMT+7 Nguyen Ha Diu Thao is crowned the winner of Miss International Queen Vietnam on April 8, 2023. Photo courtesy of Miss International Queen Vietnam The HCMC Department of Culture and Sports is set to investigate how a transgender beauty contest, Miss International Queen Vietnam, was organized recently without permission from authorities. The pageant concluded on Saturday night at a film studio in District 12 and was live-streamed.On Sunday morning a department official said: “This contest was not licensed by the authorities. The department will coordinate with other agencies to probe…
By Hoang Nam  April 10, 2023 | 10:14 am GMT+7 My wife and I have been married for nearly five years and we have two daughters aged two and four. During a fight, we said some harsh words to each other and my wife left in the middle of the night, leaving me with our 2 daughters. I don’t have much difficulty taking care of my children, but seeing my wife leave just like that was devastating.Should I get a divorce? I want to take custody of my daughters and leave the apartment that we’re living in to my wife.Hope…
The news was first reported by Chinese state media outlet Xinhua.Elon Musk’s automaker will break ground on the plant in the third quarter and start production in the second quarter of 2024, Xinhua reported from a signing ceremony in Shanghai.Complementing a huge existing Shanghai plant making electric vehicles, the new factory will initially produce 10,000 Megapack units a year, equal to around 40 gigawatt hours of energy storage, to be sold globally, Xinhua said.With the new Shanghai plant, Tesla will take advantage of China’s world leading battery supply chain to ramp up output and lower costs of its Megapack lithium-ion…
Officials say the breadth of topics addressed in the documents, which touch on the war in Ukraine, China, the Middle East and Africa, suggest they may have been leaked by an American rather than an ally.”The focus now is on this being a US leak, as many of the documents were only in US hands,” Michael Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official, told Reuters in an interview.US officials said the investigation is in its early stages and those running it have not ruled out the possibility that pro-Russian elements were behind the leak, which is seen as one of the…
Francis, 86, presided at a solemn Easter day Mass in a sunny St. Peter’s Square after unseasonal cold forced him to skip an outdoor service on Friday – a precaution following his hospitalization for bronchitis at the end of March.A carpet of 38,000 flowers donated by the Netherlands bedecked the square for the most important and joyous date in the Church’s liturgical calendar – commemorating the day Christians believe Jesus rose from the dead. Honor units of Vatican Swiss Guards and Italian Carabinieri police – both in ceremonial dress – stood at attention.But the traditional pomp and sacred singing then…
Marijuana has also become an election football with the opposition criticizing the ruling pro-military coalition in the run-up to May 14 polls for rushing through decriminalization last year to what they say is the detriment of society, youngsters in particular.Thousands of cannabis shops and businesses have sprung up, especially in Bangkok and tourist spots, since Thailand became the first Southeast Asian country to decriminalize the drug.But the legal framework has never been clearly set out and long-promised legislation failed in February to get through parliament, leaving the country without an umbrella law to regulate its use.Apart from the legislative limbo,…
By AFP  April 9, 2023 | 05:46pm GMT+7 Seven people including two children died in a fire on Saturday evening near the Philippines capital, police said. The fire destroyed 40 houses in the densely populated Taytay municipality southeast of Manila, police said Sunday.Several families, who lived in one house accessible only through a long, narrow alley, were caught in the flames, police said. The victims included a two-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy. “They weren’t able to escape. They were trapped,” Taytay’s acting police chief Joel Custodio told AFP. “They were found hugging each other.” At least one person was…
By AFP  April 9, 2023 | 01:27pm GMT+7 Members of an Indonesian environmental task force team examine the mouth of a dead sperm whale that washed up on a beach in Bali’s Jembrana District. Photo by AFP/Dicky Bisnglasi A 17-meter-long (56-foot-long) sperm whale died after washing up on a beach in Bali, a conservation official said Sunday, making it the third whale that beached itself on the Indonesian island in just a little over a week . The male sperm whale was found stranded on Yeh Leh beach in west Bali’s Jembrana district on Saturday afternoon.”We are currently trying to…
But last September he found a new creative outlet, one that led him to deceive thousands of people: the artificial intelligence program Midjourney, which generates wild and wonderful images from brief text instructions. “Soon after starting with Midjourney, I became obsessed with the creative possibilities,” Avery told AFP. Midjourney and rivals like DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion generate unique pictures by mashing up a vast back catalog of images they have been “trained” on. For Avery, a 48-year-old software engineer and lawyer by training from Virginia in the United States, Midjourney was liberating. He said it allowed him to create…