The designer will present the ao dai at the Look International Fashion Show at the Thailand Post on July 2. Model Lam Nguyen Minh Vy will catwalk the outfit on the 120 m-wide outdoor runway.Phuong Ho has said she wanted to bring the ao dai abroad to promote Vietnamese culture. The record ao dai weighs 250 kg and it took two months for Ho to complete. The longest ao dai in Vietnam is presented on April 22, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Le Trong On May 25, a representative of VietKings, a book of world records, gave the designer a certificate that…
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By Zimi  June 29, 2023 | 09:54am GMT+7 Chelsea Lazkani, the TV personality starring in the “Selling Sunset” show, has been photographed accentuating her figure with a sequin dress made by Vietnamese designer Do Long. The mermaid style dress made use of see-through material to highlight Lazkani’s upper body.Long says he hired skilled workers to attach the sequins by hand, which gave the design its impressive visual effect. Chelsea Lazkani in a gown designed by Vietnamese designer Do Long. Photo from Lazkani’s Instagram According to Long, Lazkani contacted him after seeing his designs on Instagram. The distance and differences in…
By Lam Hung  June 29, 2023 | 06:00 am GMT+7 My wife and I have been married for 12 years and have two children together. Recently, we have been unable to find a common ground or a solution to our problems. Our joint assets include an apartment, a rented house, a 3,000 square meter plot of land in the countryside, and some land given to me by my parents as an inheritance.My wife has a good relationship with my family. We used to have common interests in business and would discuss everything together. We would also argue due to differing…
The 18.8% year-on-year slump in profits came on top of the 20.6% contraction in January-April, and added to evidence of an economy that was losing steam on many fronts in May including retail sales, exports and property investment as youth jobless rate scaled at a fresh high of 20.8%.Last month alone, industrial earnings contracted by 12.6% from a year earlier, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released on Wednesday. Profits were down 18.2% in April.”The still slow recovery in industrial profits pointed to sustained difficulties facing business operations,” said Wu Chaoming, deputy director of the Chasing…
The company, Marion Biotech, bought the ingredient – propylene glycol (PG) – from trader Maya Chemtech India, as reported by Reuters. But Maya did not have a license to sell pharmaceutical-grade materials and “dealt in industrial-grade only,” according to a source at the firm with knowledge of the Marion investigation.”We did not know Marion was going to use it to make cough syrups,” said the person, who declined to be identified while the case is investigated. “We are not told where our material is used.”The two sources said the syrup was made with industrial-grade PG, a toxic material widely used…
The company, Marion Biotech, bought the ingredient — propylene glycol (PG) — from trader Maya Chemtech India, as reported by Reuters. But Maya did not have a license to sell pharmaceutical-grade materials and “dealt in industrial-grade only,” according to a source at the firm with knowledge of the Marion investigation.”We did not know Marion was going to use it to make cough syrups,” said the person, who declined to be identified while the case is investigated. “We are not told where our material is used.”The two sources said the syrup was made with industrial-grade PG, a toxic material widely used…
The US automaker could sell 155,000 cars in China during April to June, an increase of 13% from its record first quarter, according to estimations by Shi Ji, an analyst with China Merchants Bank International Securities.However, Tesla’s share in China’s battery electric car market would shrink in the quarter to 13.7% from 16% in the first three months, while BYD and Aion, the EV band of Guangzhou Automobile Group, gained share, Shi added.Deutsche Bank predicted Tesla’s China sales to hit 153,000 units in the second quarter, while globally it could sell 448,000 units in total.”Tesla has to sell into China’s…
By Linh On  June 28, 2023 | 04:07pm GMT+7 Indonesian man Johan Wijaya was sentenced to eight months’ jail for filming intimate sessions of him and 76 women without consent. Illustration photo by Pixabay Indonesian man Johan Wijaya was sentenced to eight months’ jail for filming intimate sessions of him and 76 women without their consent. Wijaya, who live in Singapore, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism and admitted hiding a camera inside his power bank charger to film the women he met through dating applications, according to the South China Morning Post.His crime has been uncovered…
Volunteers of the High School Graduation Examination Support program at Le Hong Phong High School in HCMC. Photo courtesy of Thien Long The program saw more than 10,000 students register to support high school students on social networking platforms.At the opening ceremony, many volunteers were willing to guide and support high school students and their parents during the national high school graduation exam.The “Exam Season Assistance” program is a long-term campaign supporting high school students before, during and after the exam.Before this year’s exam, the 2023 program featured a series of new activities, such as AI applications, Gen Z Ambassadors,…
Le Khac Hieu, technology and products president of Galaxy Play, receives the Excellence Award for Theater Grade Sound. Photo courtesy of Galaxy Play Galaxy Play, one of the leading online movie platforms in Vietnam, achieved a breakthrough at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Award 2023 (APB+) earlier this month.The award is a prestigious symbol for individuals and organizations in the field of technology, digitization and television engineering in the Asia-Pacific region.The APB+ organizing committee is one of the region’s leading media units, one which has significantly influenced the television and multimedia industry since 1983.It has been the official publisher of Broadcast Asia…