“Give me your phone number so I can order meals from you for delivery.” Those are the first words that Lim, a Malaysian of Chinese descent, first spoke to Tien. Tien had just arrived in Malaysia from Vietnam and was working at a diner.She didn’t understand Lim, so she used Google Translate. Tien agreed to give him her number because she thought it would be good to make him a new steady customer.Lim, a mechanic, soon began texting Tien regularly. When he learned that she was having trouble adjusting to Malaysian food and was thus eating mostly instant noodles for…
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By Tan Cao  April 7, 2023 | 08:14pm GMT+7 Vietnam’s renowned fashionista Chau Bui took part in a pop-up event held by fashion billionaire Tory Burch in Singapore that was attended by many Asian celebrities. Tory Burch (L) and Chau Bui at the pop-up event in Singapore on April 5, 2023. Photo by Chau Bui Chau Bui was a guest at Burch’s event on April 4-5. At the evening party, Chau donned a classic outfit with a brown jacket, a white dress and a black box-shape handbag.The 25-year-old fashionista took photos with Burch and had a talk with her about…
The photo, taken by her German boyfriend Gerhard Heusch, an architect, was captured in the morning at the couple’s Paris apartment. Nguyen Gia Phong, representative of the exhibition organizer, said the photo emphasized the “intimate” beauty of the relationship between the model and the photographer.The monochrome effect also contributed to delivering meaning to the audience. Photo of Hong Nhung, taken by her boyfriend, is presented at the exhibition. Photo by Gerhard Heusch Heusch didn’t make use of studio lights, but instead used natural light to capture the authentic and unfiltered expressions.”The architect’s point of view, the monochrome effect, and the…
By Reuters  April 7, 2023 | 05:02pm GMT+7 A Chinese court has jailed six people for up to 11 years for the abuse of a woman whose appearance last year in an online video chained by the neck sparked a public outcry and calls for the better protection of women. The video, which surfaced in January last year, showed the woman in an apparently confused state in the eastern province of Jiangsu. It was seen by millions, stirring debate about the treatment of women and in particular the trafficking of brides in rural areas. A man called Dong Zhimin had…
By AFP  April 7, 2023 | 01:54pm GMT+7 Villagers look at a dead sperm whale (Physeter Macrocephalus) that was stranded at Yeh Malet beach, in Klungkung, on April 5, 2023. Photo by AFP Indonesian animal experts were preparing Thursday to conduct an autopsy on an 18-meter (59-foot) whale that died after washing up on a beach in Bali, conservation officials said. The sperm whale, believed to weigh many tons, beached itself in the east of the holiday island on Wednesday before locals and officials pushed it back out to sea.But after swimming away it became stranded again just hours later…
By AFP  April 7, 2023 | 11:16 am GMT+7 Air pollution shrouds Chiang Mai in northern Thailand on March 10, 2023. Photo by AFP Authorities on Friday urged people in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai to stay indoors and work from home as air pollution spiked to hazardous levels. Smoke from forest fires and farmers burning crop stubble has blanketed the popular tourist destination in recent weeks.On Friday morning, the air monitoring website IQAir ranked Chiang Mai as the most polluted major city in the world, ahead of regular hotspots such as Delhi and Lahore.Levels of the most…
By Ngoc Anh  April 7, 2023 | 10:08 am GMT+7 We’ve been divorced for 2 years and have a lovely three-year-old son for whom my ex-husband has never stopped caring a great deal. The main reason we got a divorce was because of my conflicts with my former mother-in-law, in addition to some petty fights here and there. We were still young and unable to work things out, so we decided to end our marriage quickly.I’m now 30 and have a stable income of VND40 million ($1,696) from my own business. I don’t work anywhere else so I have quite…
China’s three main carriers – China Telecommunications Corporation (China Telecom), China Mobile Limited and China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd(China Unicom) – are mapping out one of the world’s most advanced and far-reaching subsea cable networks, according to the four people, who have direct knowledge of the plan.Known as EMA (Europe-Middle East-Asia), the proposed cable would link Hong Kong to China’s island province of Hainan, before snaking its way to Singapore, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and France, the four people said. They asked not to be named because they were not allowed to discuss potential trade secrets.The cable, which…
By Hieu Nhan  April 7, 2023 | 09:10 am GMT+7 The painting “The Family in the Garden” by late artist Le Pho has sold for US$2.37 million at an auction at Sotheby’s Hong Kong auction house. It went under the hammer Wednesday as part of Sotheby’s 50th Anniversary Contemporary Evening Auction to celebrate the American auction house’s 50th year in the Asian market with 43 works by renowned artists from around the world.”La famile dans le jardin” (Family in the Garden), done on silk, depicts a woman in a white dress sitting and sewing on a cot in the middle…
Asia and China in particular are key targets for both Airbus and its American rival Boeing, which are looking to capitalize on surging demand for air travel by a rapidly expanding middle class.”It makes a lot of sense for us, as the Chinese market keeps growing, to be serving local for the Chinese airlines, and probably some other customers in the region,” Guillaume Faury said during a trip to China, where he is accompanying French President Emmanuel Macron.Faury later signed a framework agreement to build a second final assembly line (FAL) at its factory in Tianjin, northeast China, for Airbus’s…