By Reuters  June 20, 2023 | 06:32am GMT+7 Shoppers walk through a retail district in Auckland, New Zealand, November 10, 2021. Photo by Reuters A man wielding an ax entered three Chinese restaurants on Monday night in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland, sending four people to hospital, authorities and local media reported. One victim was discharged and three remain in stable condition, North Shore and Auckland hospital spokespeople said on Tuesday.Local media reported that the man went into three Chinese restaurants — Zhangliang Malatang, Yues Dumpling Kitchen and Maya Hotpot — and started randomly attacking people with an ax around…
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By Nhu Anh  June 19, 2023 | 03:46pm GMT+7 Jolin Tsai, Taiwan’s most successful singer, wore an ao dai and conical hat during her visit to the ancient town of Hoi An. Tsai posted photos of her trip to Vietnam on her Instagram on Thursday. She visited attractions in Da Nang and Hoi An with her family and bought a floral ao dai to wear on the trip.Many fans complimented Tsai’s look. One user said: “Vietnamese style fits you really well.”Another wrote: “Just in time for a dance to See Tinh again.”In early May, Tsai uploaded a video of her…
By Reuters  June 19, 2023 | 03:18pm GMT+7 Women laborers rest under a tree on a hot summer day near India Gate, in New Delhi, India May 15, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Anushree Fadnavis At least 54 people died in a district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over the last few days, the Times of India newspaper reported, as authorities probed if the loss of lives was due to the heat wave in the region. Another 45 people died in neighboring Bihar state, local newspapers reported.The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a red alert warning last week for…
Oanh, 33, and her American ex-husband, Jack Cole, first met each other in 2017. After two years of dating, they married in HCMC in late-2019. Oanh gave birth to their first child, Max, in Vietnam in August 2020 while Cole was in Singapore. She brought Max to Singapore to reunite with Cole and the new family stayed in the country together for 16 months. Oanh then brought Max back to Vietnam in late-2021, while Cole returned to the US, sparking rumors about conflicts between the husband-and-wife. The couple eventually confirmed that they had completed their divorce in April 2022. Oanh…
By Tan Cao  June 19, 2023 | 12:19 p.m. GMT+7 Miss Vietnam 2016 Do My Linh has been enjoying her life as a newlywed with Do Vinh Quang, son of the chairman of Saigon-Hanoi Bank (SHB). Linh and Quang shared a wedding photo, which was taken in France last October, for the first time last week. Over the past eight months, Linh has been spending time with her husband, who is also the chairman of the Hanoi Football Club, and appearing less at public events. Despite that, she says that she will not abandon her career in the entertainment industry…
The steps come as authorities vow to clamp down on corruption in the country’s $57 trillion financial sector and as growth in the world’s second-largest economy weakens, with youth unemployment hitting a record high.Financial professionals are among the highest-paid workers in communist China and their wealth and flashy lifestyles have often come under criticism from the public on social media as the economy slows, drawing Beijing’s ire as well.China’s top graft-busting watchdog earlier this year vowed to eliminate ideas of a Western-style “financial elite” and rectify the hedonism of excessive pursuit of “high-end taste”.That has prompted a slew of financial…
By Reuters  June 19, 2023 | 11:58am GMT+7 Ford Motor Company Chief Executive Bill Ford announces Ford will partner with Chinese-based, Amperex Technology, to build an all-electric vehicle battery plant in Marshall, Michigan, during a press conference in Romulus, Michigan US, February 13, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Rebecca Cook Ford Motor (FN) Executive Chairman Bill Ford said the United States was not ready yet to compete with China in the production of electric vehicles. “They developed very quickly, and they developed them in large scale. And now they’re exporting them,” Ford told CNN’s ‘Fareed Zakaria GPS’ Sunday program. “They’re not here…
By Reuters  June 19, 2023 | 11:56 am GMT+7 A smartphone with a displayed Intel logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Dado Ruvic US chipmaker Intel Corp will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in the country. The factory in Kiryat Gat is due to open in 2027, to operate through 2035 at least and to employ thousands of people, Israel’s Finance Ministry said. Under the deal Intel will pay a 7.5% tax rate,…
The Japanese chef got this idea when he first saw Vietnamese trainees riding their bicycles dozens of kilometers to buy Vietnamese food in the city of Tondabayashi in Osaka Prefecture.”They had to go to Vietnamese convenience stores to buy spices and herbs,” he says.He started selling some of them himself, but then began to worry about the freshness and possible pesticides in the herbs he was selling since he had to buy them from others.So he decided to borrow land from his grandfather and applied for permissions to grow herbs there. Vietnamese balm patches and packages for sale made by…
Dr. Huynh Tan Vu, from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh City, Department of Traditional Medicine, said that coconut had a variety of uses, from hydration to medicinal.Coconut flesh can be used fresh or dried in many dishes and is used to make coconut oil, a popular beauty product.Coconut water contains sugar, protein, antioxidant, vitamin and minerals. It’s also great for providing electrolytes to the body. Coconut water is used to make coco nata – a popular dessert. Sometimes, coconut water can be boiled down to make coconut caramel – a food dye.Coconut milk contains about…