It was the middle of a sweltering summer day in Vietnam’s notoriously hot capital city. The package was a jar of supplements worth almost VND1 million ($42.24). Hoa asked the delivery person to give it to the security guard, but was declined.The management board announced that all packages delivered to the lobby must have the name and apartment number of the recipient, but in the end the security guard still refused to hold onto them for the residents. A number of people had already complained to management about losing their packages.The guard said that he was not paid to look…
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By Linh Le  July 26, 2023 | 07:34 pm GMT+7 Popular Hong Kong-born singer Jackson Wang had a moment of shock when a fan in Bangkok found her way to approach him closely, grab his back and pull him out of his car. Singer Jackson Wang. Photo from Wang’s Instagram The video features Wang making his way through the crowd of fans, who had waited for him outside of a building, to get into his car. As he got halfway into the vehicle, a woman, whose face was covered with a mask, suddenly approached, grabbed his back, and pulled him…
By Reuters  July 26, 2023 | 04:16 pm GMT+7 Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra looks on as he speaks to Reuters during an interview in Singapore February 23, 2016. Photo by Reuters/Edgar Su Thailand’s self-exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra plans to return to the country on Aug. 10, his daughter said on Wednesday, facing a potential jail term and amid a prolonged political crisis following a May general election. “Dad is returning on 10 August at Don Muang Airport,” Paetongtarn Shinawatra said in a social media post, referring to an airport in the capital Bangkok. “This decision to…
Bamboo and Oanh’s favorite flowers, lotuses, were chosen as the main décor theme of the party, which was held in the northern province of Ha Nam. Actress Phuong Oanh and tech entrepreneur Nguyen Hoa Binh during their engagement ceremony. Photo from Ngoc Han’s Facebook Around 600 tulips, roses, and orchids were also used.Decor preparation started two days ago. Oanh’s close friend Huong Xiem, who is in charge of the decoration, told VnExpress: “The hardest part [in the decoration process] was preserving the freshness of the bamboo and lotuses in this scorching weather.”She said that people took turns watering the plants…
The rain bands of Doksuri pounded coastal communities, including isolated villages tucked away in tropical forests. Many people had already been pulled to safety ahead of the storm, which brought winds of up to 175 kilometres per hour (108 miles per hour).”We’re being battered here,” Manuel Mamba, governor of the northern corn-growing Cagayan province, told Reuters.The storm, labelled as a super typhoon by China’s Meteorological Administration, is nearly 900 km (560 miles) across and is expected to sustain strength as it continues its course towards Taiwan and the Chinese mainland.The agency has already raised its storm alert to the second-highest…
By AFP  July 26, 2023 | 02:23 pm GMT+7 Shoppers crowd at the Ameyoko shopping district, which is Tokyo’s biggest street food market, as they do their last-minute New Year’s shopping in Tokyo, Japan December 29, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Issei Kato The population of Japanese citizens decreased at the fastest pace ever while the number of foreign residents rose to a record at nearly 3 million people, government data showed on Wednesday. The data underscores that foreign nationals are playing an even bigger role in Japanese society to make up for a shrinking population.The population of Japanese nationals fell for…
Miss World Vietnam 2022 Huynh Nguyen Mai Phuong. Photo from Phuong’s Instagram “You might be surprised to see a beauty pageant winner with a strong personality like me, but I want to show you how a ‘Generation Z’ beauty contest winner could behave,” the 24-year-old told VnExpress.Despite that, Phuong said she was thankful for the public’s responses, both positive and not, which helped her to improve herself.”I will show everyone how I have improved in the coming time,” she said.According to Phuong, one of the traits that a mature person possesses is to not hesitate to apologize when they know…
By Linh Le  July 26, 2023 | 10:09 am GMT+7 TikToker Soudi of Arabia’s videos complaining about the problems of being married to her Emirati millionaire husband have gone viral. Soudi and her Emirati millionaire husband Jamal. Photo from Soudi’s Instagram Cultural differences between her and her husband was the first thing she mentioned. She’s from a Western background while her husband, Jamal, is from Middle-Eastern heritage, according to News.com.au.”Most women [here] don’t show their face on social media,” the British-born TikToker said in her TikTok. “Obviously, as an influencer I’ve always done that, so that had to be something…
The 82-year-old entrepreneur founded his company nearly 40 years ago, but well past retirement age he has neither a successor nor a buyer for a business that retains loyal clients.It is a problem that Japan’s government warns could affect up to a third of all small businesses in the country by 2025, as the country’s population shrinks and ages.”All of this would go to waste if I were to close now,” said Hashimoto, whose factory in Yachimata, east of Tokyo, is filled with workbenches, drill tables and parts cabinets.He once employed dozens of people, but now gets by with just…
The two delegations will take part in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of “Victory Day” on Thursday in Pyongyang, state media agency KCNA reported, with Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Li Hongzhong leading the Beijing group.Russia’s Defense Ministry said it had been invited by its North Korean counterpart and would attend the Victory Day events.”This visit will help strengthen Russian-North Korean military ties and will be an important stage in the development of cooperation between the two countries,” the ministry said in a statement.The ministry posted a short video on its Telegram messaging app showing Shoigu being greeted by…