The Vietnamese singer and dancer Xie Xin performed the Chinese version of the song “Swing” in the show’s episode that aired Friday.While Xie showed her strength through acrobatic moves, Chi Pu impressed viewers with her pole dancing skills. Singer Chi Pu during her pole dancing performance in Chinese reality show “Sisters Who Make Waves.” Photo from Chi Pu’s Weibo According to Xie, Chi Pu practiced pole dancing so hard that she got bruises all over her body, which made her admire the Vietnamese singer. She even fell to the ground on her back once during a practice session, yet said…
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She decided to settle down here to continue her search and be “loyal to her [Vietnamese] roots.”Born Tao Thi Ngoc Thao on January 5, 1994, Jeunet was abandoned at birth. In her third month she was adopted by a French couple from the Go Vap Orphanage in HCMC and taken to Paris. Jeunet was adopted in 1994 by a French couple when she was three months old. Photo courtesy of Jeunet Jeunet’s adopted parents loved and supported her, but she felt isolated throughout her childhood as she faced unspeakable racial discrimination and constantly contemplated her true identity.”Whenever I would pass…
Pham Van Trinh, Grabcar driver-partner. Photo by Nguyen Dong On June 29 evening, Phan Van Trinh, 36, received a foreign passenger’s ride booking from a hotel on Nguyen Van Linh Street to the parking lot next to the Museum of Cham Sculpture in Hai Chau District, Da Nang.The next morning, he found a black wallet left by passenger. He suspected that it belonged to a foreign passenger, as it contained a US military card. It was placed in the back seat storage organizer. Though Trinh picked up six additional rides after that, the wallet was not misplaced.After reporting the incident…
But the Thai family-owned group that has grown annual revenues to $7 billion on the back of that success is now looking at opportunities elsewhere.Siam Motors is in talks with several Chinese automakers about potential partnerships, particularly for high-end electric vehicles, vice president Sebastien Dupuy said in an interview, referring to previously unreported discussions.”EVs will be a nice pocket of growth,” he said. “There is a market growing for that, and we want to capture the growth.”Siam Motors’ position reflects a rapid shift underway in Thailand, where Chinese investments worth $1.44 billion since 2020 – including by BYD and Great…
By Linh Le July 10, 2023 | 02:39pm GMT+7 Thousands of Filipino fans attended as close to a Taylor Swift concert as they could ask for when drag singer Taylor Sheesh rocked the stage at a Manila shopping center. Wearing a gold sequin dress and a long curly blonde wig impersonating Swift’s iconic hairstyle, Taylor Sheesh imitated Swift’s choreography and lip-synced to the American singer’s songs in her 2010 “Speak Now” album, leaving thousands of fans screaming and singing along, reported The Strait Times Sunday. Taylor Sheesh performs on the stage at a Manila shopping center on July 7, 2023. Photo…
By Reuters  July 10, 2023 | 12:23 p.m. GMT+7 Surveillance cameras are seen near a construction site in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China November 8, 2021. Picture taken November 8, 2021. Photo by Reuters/David Kirton A 25-year-old man was suspected of attacking a kindergarten in China’s Guangdong province on Monday killing six people and injuring one, police said. Media reported the attack in Lianjiang county was a stabbing. The suspect, with the surname Wu and from Lianjiang, had been detained, police said, adding they were investigating.No other details were immediately available.The incident was the top-trending discussion on the Weibo, social media…
The department sent a notice on Sunday to Netflix and FPT Play.He said he had reviewed all 39 episodes on Netflix, and found a map containing the illegal nine-dash line appearing in episodes 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 38 besides being especially evident in episode 30.Episode 18 features a character even saying “one day this map will go to many places in the world,” it said.The “nine-dash line” has been used by China to illegally claim vast swathes of the South China Sea, known in Vietnam as the East Sea, but the claim has been internationally rejected…
We got married seven years ago and have two children. We met at the company we both worked at and dated for a year before marriage. We are living in a town in a mountainous city. I’m working as an architect, while my husband is an engineer. Our total monthly income could be classified as average and is enough to cover our living expenses. We also have two pieces of land, of which one was bought with the money we both contributed and one was given to us by my parents. We are planning to build our own house, buy…
By Reuters  July 10, 2023 | 10:55 am GMT+7 Dozens of wooden boats used by migrants to reach the Canary Islands are seen at the Port of Arinaga, in the island of Gran Canaria, Spain, June 7, 2022. Picture taken June 7, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Borja Suarez At least 300 people who were traveling on three migrant boats from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands have disappeared, migrant aid group Walking Borders said on Sunday. Two boats, one carrying about 65 people and the other with between 50 and 60 on board, have been missing for 15 days since they left…
Silver Ho, a 26-year-old hair stylist assistant who was tired of arguing with his parents, counts himself as one of the lucky ones. Two months ago, he landed a spot at a new so-called “youth hostel”, which offers rooms for young adults that are subsidized by the Hong Kong government and can be rented for up to five years.His 22 square meter (240 square foot) twin-bed room he’ll share with another person is only a bit smaller than the public housing unit he shared with his parents.Ho also pays rent of just HK$4,400 ($560) per month, 27% cheaper than a…