Gaining success in her businesses, Miss World Peace 2017 Phuong Le now owns a collection of six luxury cars, including two Rolls-Royces and a McLaren. Dàn siêu xe của hoa hậu Phương Lê Miss World Peace 2017 Phuong Le’s multi-million-dollar collection of luxury cars. Video courtesy of Phuong Phuong, 44, and her white Rolls-Royce Phantom, which she bought in 2022 for around $2 million. Photo courtesy of Phuong”Everyone has their own way to enjoy their lives,” she says. “I don’t like traveling so I spend my money on luxury cars.”Phuong cites her various businesses’ successes as the resources for her…
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By AFP  July 11, 2023 | 05:14pm GMT+7 Mount Everest, the world highest peak, and other peaks of the Himalayan range are seen through an aircraft window during a mountain flight from Kathmandu, Nepal January 15, 2020. Photo by Reuters/Monika Deupala All six people aboard a tourist helicopter in Nepal were killed when it crashed soon after take-off near Mount Everest on Tuesday, aviation authorities said. The Manang Air chopper was heading for the capital Kathmandu from near Lukla, the gateway for climbing expeditions to the world’s highest peak, but lost contact about 10 minutes after taking off at 10:04…
By Reuters  July 11, 2023 | 04:27pm GMT+7 A participant holds a sign as they march during the Tokyo Rainbow Pride parade, celebrating advances in LGBTQ rights and calling for marriage equality, in Tokyo, Japan April 23, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Issei Kato Japan’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that restricting a transgender woman’s use of toilets at her workplace was “unacceptable”, a decision that may help promote LGBT rights in the only G7 nation without legal protection for same-sex unions. The ruling, the first by Japan’s highest court on the work environment for LGBT individuals, comes in the wake of…
Jon Standen, the new principal of the Australian International School (AIS) in Saigon. Photo courtesy of AIS What motivated you to accept the position of executive principal at AIS?AIS is an established school with an excellent reputation. It is part of Inspired, a global network of premium schools, and you get a strong sense of the benefits being part of a group like this brings. The Inspired educational philosophy, which places importance on holistic education, fits my own beliefs about what makes for a great school and a great education for each child.Holistic education not only supports the development of…
By Reuters  July 11, 2023 | 02:03pm GMT+7 Photo taken from a helicopter shows the site of a mudslide following heavy rain in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan July 10, 2023, in this photo taken by Kyodo. Mandatory credit Kyodo via Reuters Torrential rain over Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu triggered floods and landslides that left up to six dead people and rescuers searching for three missing, officials said on Tuesday. The Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded the special warnings for heavy rains, issued on Monday for northern parts of the island, to lower-level warnings and advisories, but urged residents to stay…
The world’s fastest warming continent experienced its hottest summer on record in 2022, as countries were hit by blistering heatwaves, crop-withering droughts and devastating wildfires. The European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat had reported an unusually high number of excess deaths over the summer, but the amount directly linked to the heat had not been previously quantified. A team of researchers looked at data on temperature and mortality from 2015 to 2022 for 823 regions across 35 European countries, covering a total of 543 million people. The researchers from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health and France’s health research institute INSERM…
Now in their late teens, the boys and their coach, Mr Ekkapol Chantawong, descended into the spotlit chambers of the Tham Luang cave complex to pay tribute to the thousands of people who worked for 18 days and nights to get them out.The “Wild Boars” team had entered the caves in June 2018 and were trapped when rains flooded the complex, emerging after a daring international rescue operation to global acclaim.”If it weren’t for these people we wouldn’t have survived, and wouldn’t have been alive this day,” Mr Ekkapol said.”I’d like to say thank you to all of you from…
By AFP  July 11, 2023 | 06:22am GMT+7 Forensic police and rescue workers inspect the scene after a construction girder on an elevated tollway collapsed, killing at least one person, in Lat Krabang district in Bangkok on July 10, 2023. Photo by AFP At least two people died after a huge construction girder over a busy road collapsed in the Thai capital Bangkok, police said Monday, with videos of the terrifying incident rapidly shared online. The massive metal girder on the Lat Krabang Tollway construction project to the east of the city crumpled to the ground late Monday afternoon, catching…
“Due to some details in the episodes that are prohibited by Vietnamese law, Netflix has removed the series ‘Flight to You’ from the platform in Vietnam,” said a representative from Netflix. The series can still be streamed on Netflix in other countries.Vi Kien Thanh, director of the Vietnam Cinema Department, said that authorities are waiting for reports from the units that have screened this series that are due Wednesday. The Department is assigning personnel to detect films with violations in cyberspace but is facing many difficulties due to the large quantity of content.The department had sent a notice to Netflix…
By Thuy An  July 11, 2023 | 06:21 am GMT+7 Kudzu powder, made from the root of the kudzu plant, is widely used in East Asian cuisine and could be consumed with boiled water or room-temperature water. Dr. Bui Dac Sang at Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology says kudzu starch can help cool the body, quench thirst, as well cure neck pains, diabetes, and diarrhea.Kudzu also helps ease fever, headaches, unusual sweats, and tiredness. People with sore throats, measles, pneumonia or loss of appetite are also recommended to consume kudzu starch.According to Dr. Nguyen Thuy Linh, deputy head of…