By Tan Cao  March 21, 2023 | 01:46pm GMT+7 Fourteen-year-old Bao Ha is the only Vietnamese model to walk the runway of Seoul Fashion Week this year. Ha wore two outfits from the “Wednesday is Monday” collection by designer Kwak Hyun-joo. In her first appearance, Ha wore a jacket combined with a split skirt and white high-top boots. Her second appearance featured an all-black outfit with a jacket and a flared skirt.Designer Kwak Hyun-joo was inspired by the Netflix series “Wednesday,” which caught the Internet by storm in 2022. The collection targets teenagers with dynamic and rebellious designs. Bao Ha…
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A tailor measures fabric at workshop. Photo by Paul Bespoke Tailor Ta Van Khanh, founder of Paul Bespoke Tailor, said there are several criteria for a suitable and qualified tailoring suits.Without being constrained by predefined rules or shapes of ready-to-wear or made-to-measure clothing, the art of tailoring brings to life the striking lines of a gentleman’s figure to help elevate style and exclusivity. Customer gets his tailored suits. Photo by Paul Bespoke Tailor “We all know that the most important element for bespoke tailoring is the perfect fit, thanks to the talent of a tailor with years of experience creating…
Uncle Samsen travels with 11 cats from Bangkok to Isaan. Photo by Kingdom of Tigers Facebook page The story of a Thai man, known as Uncle Samsen, went viral on social media after he traveled with his 11 cats in his sidecar motorcycle from Bangkok to the Isaan province of Korat. The route was nearly 300 km and took almost five hours of traveling, The Thaiger reported.Many Thai TikTokers posted videos of Uncle Samsen, real name Choowong Thepkoh, and his cats and praised him for his love and kindness toward the cats.A popular cat Facebook page, Kingdom of Tigers, also…
By Reuters  March 21, 2023 | 11:07 am GMT+7 President Joe Biden signs a bill at the White House in May 2022. Photo by Reuters US President Joe Biden on Monday signed a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origins of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, the White House said. Biden said he shared Congress’ goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of COVID-19.”In implementing this legislation, my administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that…
By Reuters  March 21, 2023 | 09:07 am GMT+7 Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 20, 2023. Photo by Sputnik via Reuters Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping planned more talks on Tuesday after a Kremlin dinner. It was Xi’s first trip abroad since he obtained an unprecedented third term last month. The Chinese leader has been trying to portray Beijing as a potential peacemaker in Ukraine, even as he deepens economic ties with his closest ally. Putin and Xi greeted one another as…
The Amazon.com logo and stock price information is seen on screens at the Nasdaq Market Site in New York City, New York, US, September 4, 2018. REUTERS/ In a remarkable turn for a company that has long touted its job creation, Amazon will have eliminated 27,000 positions in recent months, or 9% of its roughly 300,000-strong corporate workforce. The latest cuts focus on Amazon’s highly-profitable cloud and advertising divisions, once seen as untouchable until economic concerns led business customers to scrutinize their spending. The layoffs will affect Amazon’s streaming unit Twitch as well. Dan Clancy, who was named as CEO…
By Lam Tra  March 21, 2023 | 08:26am GMT+7 Phillip Nguyen (L) and Linh Rin. Photo courtesy of the couple Phillip Nguyen, the third son of Johnathan Hanh Nguyen, chairman of the Imex Pan Pacific Group (IPPG), will get married in a wedding party with 500 guests in the Philippines. The wedding between Phillip and his fiancée, actress and model Linh Rin, is expected to take place in late March at a church in Manila. The two thing this location because Manila is a part of Phillip’s childhood.There will be about 500 guests from different parts of the world. The…
By Lam Tra  March 21, 2023 | 08:26am GMT+7 Phillip Nguyen (L) and Linh Rin. Photo courtesy of the couple Phillip Nguyen, the third son of billionaire entrepreneur Johnathan Hanh Nguyen, has prepared a set of 500 wedding gifts worth a total of VND2 billion ($85,000) for his wedding in the Philippines. Linh Rin, Phillip’s fiancée, said about 200 kg of gifts were transported by air and sea to Manila, Philippines, where the wedding will take place.Phillip has prepared and wrapped every single gift himself to show appreciation to his wedding guests.Linh reported that she hasn’t seen the gifts because…
Xi will be the first national leader to shake Putin’s hand since the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him on Friday over the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia since its invasion.Russia is presenting Xi’s trip, his first since securing an unprecedented third term this month, as evidence that he has a powerful friend prepared to stand with it against a hostile West that he accuses of trying to isolate and defeat Moscow.”We can feel the geopolitical landscape in the outside world undergoing drastic changes,” Putin said in an article in China’s People’s Daily published on…
The pushing and shoving continued even as the family transported Linh’s coffin to his resting place at Hoa Vien Cemetery in Ho Chi Minh City-adjacent Binh Duong province on March 9.”Besides people waiting in line, there were many who jostled to take photos and videos at the funeral,” said Hong Phuong, Vu Linh’s granddaughter.Artist Thanh Dien said that the grave of his Linh’s wife, Thanh Kim Hue, another reformed theater legend, which is located nearby his burial spot, was trampled by the, breaking its flower pots. The crowd at the funeral of reformed theater artist Vu Linh on March 9,…