By AFP  June 30, 2023 | 07:24am GMT+7 Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen speaks at a press conference during the EU-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) summit at the European Council headquarters in Brussels on December 14, 2022. Photo by AFP/John Thys Cambodian leader Hun Sen, a prolific Facebook user, vowed on Thursday to quit posting on the popular social media platform, days before he launches a re-election campaign. Cambodia will go to the polls on July 23 in an election that has been widely dubbed a sham after authorities denied registration to the chief challenger to Hun Sen’s ruling…
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We knew each other for over 10 years but we couldn’t take our relationship to the next level. Partly because she followed a different religion and partly because her way of life and thinking didn’t align with my family’s values. My family has a simple background working in agriculture, while hers is involved in large-scale businesses.In my family, it’s just my mother and me, so I want to compensate for that and take care of my mother. However, my girlfriend didn’t want to become a daughter-in-law and refused to take care of my mother when she was sick or in…
The United States has imposed sanctions on a lengthy list of Chinese companies and individuals, accusing them of complicity in human rights abuses that Beijing has strenuously denied.The sanctions – particularly those restricting access to critical technology needed for semiconductors – have hit some Chinese firms hard, forcing them to slash jobs and freeze expansion plans.China’s top legislature passed the Law on Foreign Relations on Wednesday, which defines the main principles and positions of Beijing’s international diplomacy and will come into effect on July 1.The law “clearly shows our opposition to hegemony, power politics… and bullying”, China’s top diplomat Wang…
By AFP  June 29, 2023 | 05:05pm GMT+7 A Japanese youngster at a “cat cafe” in Tokyo. Photo by AFP Cats are considered lucky in Japan, and owners of the popular pets spend big on their care. But how do you know when they’re feline down? A tech firm and university in Tokyo have teamed up to produce an app trained on thousands of cat photos that they say can tell you when puss is in pain.Since its release last month, “Cat Pain Detector” has racked up 43,000 users, mostly in Japan but also in Europe and South America, said…
By Nhu Anh  June 29, 2023 | 03:41pm GMT+7 Hong Kong actor Lee Lung Kei, 73, says he is worried sometimes as his girlfriend Chris Wong is young and multi-talented. “I would be lying if I say I’m never worried,” he told Ming Pao Weekly. “I think she is many men’s ideal type.” Hong Kong actor Lee Lung Kei and his girlfriend Chris Wong. Photo from Wong’s Instagram Graduating with a degree in aircraft structural engineering, Wong, 36, is also artistically gifted, and has received many compliments from Lee’s friends for her portrait paintings.In order to be a better match…
Lisa’s boots in a photoshoot were made by a Vietnamese brand founded by designer Quach Dac Thang. Photo from Blackpink AR’s Twitter Blackpink were formed in 2016 by YG Entertainment with four members Jisoo, Lisa, Rose and Jennie. The group quickly achieved great success in South Korea before becoming one of the most popular girl groups in the world. The group are set to perform at Hanoi’s My Dinh National Stadium for two nights on July 29 and 30, as part of their second world tour “Born Pink.” . Source: Internet
Ngan and 68 other contestants attended a party, part of the contest, on Wednesday. The Vietnamese beauty queen wore a sequin see-through dress made by designer Thuong Gia Ky at the event, during which she had to introduce herself in English.”I’m standing here to tell a story about a girl who wants to raise her voice and take strong actions to support healthcare for the elderly and unfortunate,” she said during her speech.She added that she came to the contest aiming to learn about the cultures represented by the fellow contestants before expressing how happy and excited she felt being…
The new findings show that space is awash with these gravitational waves, which oscillate over years or longer and appear to originate primarily from pairs of supermassive black holes spiraling together before merging.”Gravitational waves are created by astronomically dense objects in our universe, usually in orbit around each other. The gravitational waves actually stretch and compress space-time itself as they travel through the universe,” said Oregon State University astrophysicist Jeff Hazboun, a member of the scientific collaboration that conducted the research and lead author of one of the papers describing the findings in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.Einstein in 1916 proposed…
The Biden administration last October issued a sweeping set of rules designed to freeze China’s semiconductor industry in place while the US pours billions of dollars in subsidies into its own chip industry.An update to those rules may come by late July, two sources said, but one cautioned that such US actions involving China often get delayed.The US Commerce department declined to comment.Nvidia Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said on Wednesday at an investors conference, “Over the long-term, restrictions prohibiting the sale of our data center GPUs to China, if implemented, would result in a permanent loss of opportunities for…
The possible remains and shattered bits of the submersible Titan, destroyed while diving to the century-old wreck of the Titanic, were carried to St. John’s, Newfoundland, about 400 miles (650km) north of the accident site, by the Canadian-flagged vessel Horizon Arctic, according to the Coast Guard.The evidence will be transported by a Coast Guard cutter to a US port for analysis and testing by a marine board of investigation, agreed by the Guard this week to conduct a formal inquiry into the loss of the Titan, the agency said.US medical professionals also “will conduct a formal analysis of presumed human…