By Ha Thu  March 31, 2023 | 06:11 am GMT+7 A collection of 15 short stories by late Vietnamese writer Nguyen Huy Thiep has been translated and published in South Korea this month. Nguyen Bach, a painter and Thiep’s son, said translator Kim Joo Young had already discussed translation process and copyrights with is late father. Since the writer passed away in 2021, Bach has worked with the Korean translator on behalf of his father.”My father had always wanted his works to be translated into different languages and introduced to foreign readers. Six copies of the book, gifted to our…
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By Ha Thu  March 31, 2023 | 06:11 am GMT+7 A collection of 15 short stories by late Vietnamese writer Nguyen Huy Thiep has been translated and published in South Korea this month. Nguyen Bach, a painter and Thiep’s son, said translator Kim Joo Young had already discussed translation process and copyrights with is late father. Since the writer passed away in 2021, Bach has worked with the Korean translator on behalf of his father.”My father had always wanted his works to be translated into different languages and introduced to foreign readers. Six copies of the book, gifted to our…
A staff holds up a piece of cannabis at a cafe in Bangkok, Thailand on June 9, 2022.Photo by Reuters The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned parents to stay alert after several children in southern Thailand were hospitalized for eating smuggled cannabis-infused edibles. FDA deputy secretary-general Withid Sariddeechaikool told Bangkok Post on Wednesday that there were reports of children falling ill and being admitted to hospitals after eating contraband chocolate cookies.The cookies were labeled “Twix Chocolate and THC 600 MG PER BAG PER 2 Cookies” and were believed to have been smuggled into the country as they had…
Quynh Nga, the CEO of Miss Universe Vietnam, said according to the new regulations of the holding company Miss Universe Organization (MUO), to participate in the global version of Miss Universe, a contestant must become the winner of the competition in their respective country and sign a contract with the copyright holder of the competition.Miss Universe Vietnam has asked MUO to make an exception for Thao Nhi, who finished as the first runner-up in the 2022 contest. However, they failed to reach an agreement with Unicorp, the previous copyright holder of the Miss Universe Vietnam pageant, on transferring the management…
By Reuters  March 30, 2023 | 02:53pm GMT+7 A sunset is seen through a wind farm near Puck, northern Poland, July 22, 2015. Photo By Reuters/Kacper Pempel The European Union reached a provisional deal on Thursday on higher renewable energy targets, an important pillar of the bloc’s plans to fight climate change and end dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Negotiators of the European Parliament and the Council, representing EU members, agreed that by 2030, the 27-country EU would commit to sourcing 42.5% of its energy from renewable sources like wind and solar, with a potential top-up to 45%.The EU’s current…
By AFP  March 30, 2023 | 02:51pm GMT+7 A Philippine Coast Guard ship comes to rescue as a passenger ferry catches fire off the southern Philippine province of Basilan, March 30, 2023. Photo by Philippine Coast Guard At least 31 people died and 230 were rescued after a fire engulfed a ferry in the southern Philippines, authorities said Thursday. The Lady Mary Joy 3 was traveling from Zamboanga City on Mindanao Island to Jolo Island in Sulu province when the fire broke out late Wednesday, prompting passengers to jump overboard, disaster officer Nixon Alonzo said.Rescuers, including the Philippine Coast Guard…
By Reuters  March 30, 2023 | 10:52am GMT+7 People wait at a bus stop in Beijing’s Central Business District (CBD), China January 16, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Tingshu Wang China’s economic performance has improved in March from the first two months and the country will expand domestic demand and consolidate its economic recovery, Premier Li Qiang said on Thursday at an economic forum in Boao. No matter how the world situation is evolving, China will remain committed to reforms and opening up, Li said at the Boao forum in the southern island province of Hainan.”Judging from the situation in March, it’s…
By Reuters  March 30, 2023 | 10:39 am GMT+7 Jewelries made from bullet casings by the workshop owned and run by Cambodian goldsmith Thoeun Chantha are on display in Cambodia. Photo courtesy of Thoeun Chantha’s Facebook page Every week, Cambodian goldsmith Thoeun Chantha turns about five kg of brass casings of AK-47 and M-16 bullets into jewelry. For more than two decades, the 42-year-old, whose father was killed during Cambodia’s years of war, has run a workshop to turn symbols of violence into what he calls wearable pieces of art.”I’m a victim of the war as a Cambodian who lost…
The staff try to reduce the psychological impact on children who can barely remember a time without sirens and fear.”They go calmly, none of them cries,” says one of the carers, Tetiana, 68.The children chatter and giggle as they do coloring, listen to stories, build Lego and get their faces painted.”We’re hiding from bombs,” one boy, Plato, tells AFP as he selects Lego pieces.”When we expect bombs, we go to the cellar,” a girl, Nadiya, adds matter-of-factly.Concerns over the war’s emotional toll on children have prompted diverse efforts to help — from a book of therapeutic stories to specially commissioned…
By Reuters  March 30, 2023 | 07:53am GMT+7 Office workers and shoppers walk through Sydney’s central business district in Australia, September 7, 2016. Photo by Reuters/Jason Reed Australia on Thursday passed legislation requiring firms with more than 100 employees to publish their gender pay gap from early next year, as part of the Labor government’s attempts to improve working conditions for women. In 2023, Australia’s national gender pay gap was 13.3%, according to official data. “On current projections it will take another 26 years to close the gender pay gap,” Minister for Women Katy Gallagher said in a statement. “Women…