By Reuters  June 26, 2023 | 11:10 am GMT+7 People attend a mass rally denouncing the US in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 25, 2023 in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) via Reuters North Korea held mass rallies in Pyongyang where people shouted slogans vowing a “war of revenge” to destroy the United States, as it marked the 73rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, state media reported on Monday. About 120,000 working people and students took part in the rallies held across the capital on Sunday, state news agency KCNA reported.Photos released…
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The police scrutiny of Indonesia’s food and drugs agency (BPOM) is the latest escalation by states seeking for contaminated syrups that were linked to the deaths of dozens more children in Gambia and Uzbekistan last year. The World Health Organization is working with countries to investigate the global pharmaceutical supply chain for such syrups.Late last year police arrested and charged eight individuals at Indonesian companies that imported and distributed raw materials to drugmakers whose cough syrups were found to contain toxic industrial-grade chemicals instead of the legitimate ingredient.Andika Urrasyidin, lead police investigator of the case, told Reuters police have called…
About a dozen Starbucks workers picked outside New York’s Astor Place location in lower Manhattan on Sunday afternoon near the route of the city’s Pride parade, chanting: “New York is a union town! On strike! Shut it down!”Union members handed out flyers and talked to passersby about the action, while several customers chose not to enter in support of the strike.With Pride marches underway in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago and Starbucks’ hometown Seattle, some baristas and other workers at the coffee chain said they were angered by the dispute.A spokesperson said on Sunday that “we unwaveringly support the…
Businesswoman An used to have an average body: 1.62 m tall, 52 kg and measurements of 80-63-94. She wasn’t able to keep a good figure due to her unhealthy lifestyle.According to An, because her cooking skill was poor, she often ate outside, with a lot of alcohol and bar snacks to bring home. Bui Hong An with a waist of 60 cm. Picture courtesy of An In 2022, her weight rose to 55 kg, and her waist was nearly 70 cm. An gets sick easily and often suffers from digestive disorders.Worried about her health and body, she started to look…
The 29-year-old real estate sales executive in Ha Dong District, Hanoi, has been suffering from insomnia for the past eight months.She can’t send herself to sleep unless she takes pills because she’s under pressure at work and can’t stop thinking at night. The company she works for is going through hard times and she could be laid off any day.Ngan initially sought help from herbal tea and lotus seeds, which are believed to help calm the mind, but nothing improved. An acquaintance of hers then introduced her to scented candles. She soon became reliant on them and then could not…
Staying in the next bunk beds are Le Thi Hoang Linh, 40, of Khanh Hoa Province, and her husband. They stay at Tuan’s house for 1-2 weeks every time they visit HCMC for his tongue cancer treatment. Linh is a factory worker and her husband is a farmer. They have three children and have to take care of Linh’s elderly mother-in-law. Since Linh’s husband was diagnosed with tongue cancer, they’ve had to travel to HCMC on a monthly basis. So their two older children have to take care of each other and their grandmother while their parents are away. Meanwhile,…
At 1:51 pm (0551 GMT), the temperature measured by Beijing’s benchmark weather station in its southern suburbs briefly soared above 40C.Until Saturday, the city of nearly 22 million people had never logged three straight days above 40C since setting up the southern observatory in 1951.Aside from Beijing, parts of nearby Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Inner Mongolia and Tianjin either raised or kept their hot weather alert at “red”, the highest in China’s four-tier warning system.A red alert means the temperature could exceed 40C within 24 hours.As of 1:13 pm, an area of 450,000 square km (174,000 square miles) had recorded temperatures…
“The doctor said he was dehydrated because of the heat,” she said. “Our family factory had to switch to working during the night to avoid similar accidents.”Nga said workers in her factory start working at 7 pm during heatwaves, which is exactly what they’re experiencing right now.She said a lot of workers even quit their jobs during the heat.She currently employs three workers and even at night she has to run three fans in their small factory space, which is really just a room.Other heat remedies executed by Nga’s family include eating food made from arrowroot starch and taking alkaline…
By Minh Khang  June 25, 2023 | 10:53am GMT+7 Nguyen Quang Hai’s girlfriend Chu Thanh Huyen was by his side at Hanoi Police FC headquarters as he signed his new contract and met his new team. Hai arrived at the football club’s headquarters in a white shirt and pink suit Friday morning. He was accompanied by his girlfriend and his representative Michele Fersini.The football club said at the ceremony Thursday that their contract with him would be valid for one and a half years.This was one of the rare times that Hai and Huyen appeared together in public. The couple…
Over the past few months, the public has been paying a lot of attention to the relationship between Oanh and Binh. After photos of the couple circulated on social media last August, controversies sparked when Dao Lan Huong, Binh’s now-former spouse claimed that she and Binh were still legally married and had not completed their divorce process. Opinion was divided: some accused Oanh of interfering in Binh’s marriage, while others believed Oanh did nothing wrong because Binh and Huong had filed for divorce and were already in the middle of the procedure. . Source: Internet