By AFP  June 13, 2023 | 02:27pm GMT+7 Signage is seen at Samsung 837 in Manhattan, New York City, US, November 23, 2021. Photo by Reuters/Andrew Kelly A former Samsung executive has been charged with stealing company secrets for a copycat computer chip factory in China, and is being held in detention pending trial, prosecutors told AFP on Tuesday. The 65-year-old man, who has not been identified, allegedly stole Samsung trade secrets in a bid to set up a chip factory in the Chinese city of Xian — near where Samsung has a plant — the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office…
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Phuc and Ronaldo in Saudi Arabia. Photo courtesy of Phuc Phuc said he had only four days between being notified he would visit Al Nassr football club, where Ronaldo plays, and his departure. The Saudi Arabian embassy supported him in his visa application and it took him only one day to get the visa.He asked his younger sister to prepare a special gift for Ronaldo. She chose a traditional Vietnamese conical hat, painting an image of Ronaldo celebrating a goal on it, together with the flags of Vietnam and Portugal, and the words “From Vietnam with love.” Phuc gives Ronaldo…
By AFP  June 13, 2023 | 02:16pm GMT+7 Paramilitary police officers stand guard in front of the headquarters of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank (PBOC), in Beijing, China September 30, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Tingshu Wang China’s central bank on Tuesday cut a key policy interest rate, in a surprise move to boost the country’s flagging economy. The People’s Bank of China said it was lowering the seven-day reverse repo rate to 1.9% from 2.0%, the first such move since August last year.The seven-day reverse repo is the short-term interest paid by the central bank on loans from…
The two bedrooms for parents and children are designed with two separate doors on both sides, but currently no partition wall in the middle. Following the advice of the architect, the owner plans to add additional walls to separate the two bedrooms when their kid is grown and wants private space. It took six months to design the house, a construction time of 1.5 years with a total cost of about VND3.2 billion ($136,000). . Source: Internet
Lava flows from Mount Mayon volcano, in Daraga, Philippines June 11, 2023, in this picture obtained from social media. Photo by Nehemiah Manzanilla Sitiar via Reuters Incandescent lava was seen flowing slowly from the mouth of the 2,462-meter (8,077-foot) Mayon volcano, which was placed on a high alert level last week following seismic tremors and hundreds of rockfall events.”Based on our previous experiences, this volcanic activity may persist for a few months,” Teresito Bacolcol, chief of the state volcanology and seismology agency, told DZMM radio, adding that residents usually live within a 6 km (3.7 miles) radius of the volcano…
Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 presidential election, is scheduled to be in a Miami federal courthouse on Tuesday at 3 pm EDT (1900 GMT) for an initial appearance in the case. Accused of unlawfully keeping US national-security documents and lying to officials who tried to recover them, Trump has proclaimed his innocence and vowed to continue his campaign to regain the presidency in a November 2024 election. Trump, who turns 77 on Wednesday, touched down in Miami at 2:54 pm (1854 GMT) in a private jet with his name emblazoned on the side. “I HOPE…
The group’s fans – known collectively as Army – gathered outside the offices of its agency Hybe to take wefies and record TikTok videos in front of a huge mural of the stars being painted on a wall.Korea Post unveiled a special-edition series of stamps in BTS’ honor set to go on sale at post offices on Tuesday – the official anniversary of the septet’s debut – having already sold out almost instantly online.”Obviously BTS are global superstars, but we didn’t expect the stamps to be sold out on the day of the online release,” said a Korea Post official.After…
By Reuters  June 13, 2023 | 07:44 am GMT+7 A British man climbs South Korea’s tallest building, the 123-storey Lotte World Tower, without a rope before being forced to abandon the climb more than halfway up, in Seoul, South Korea, June 12, 2023. Photo by South Korea’s Songpa Fire Station via Reuters A British man attempted to scale the world’s fifth tallest building without ropes on Monday until South Korean authorities forced him to abandon his climb more than half way up the 123-storey Lotte World Tower in Seoul. The 24-year-old man, wearing shorts, made his way up the landmark…
Hainan Airlines flight attendants take height measurements. Photo by Reuters Hainan Airlines, the fourth largest airline in China, has been criticized for suspending female flight attendants who weigh more than company policy allows. Hainan’s female flight attendants are grounded if they are 10% above the standard weight limit. The limit is height (cm) minus 110 = standard weight (kg), The Strait Times reported.Hainan Airlines issued the guidelines in early June in an “effort to maintain a professional image.” There are also male attendants, but it is not yet clear if the guidelines also to them as well.One netizen wrote on…
Hainan Airlines flight attendants take height measurements. Photo by Reuters Hainan, the fourth largest airline in China, has been criticized following its cabin crew’s guidelines that suspend female flight attendants if they go over the weight limit. The female flight attendants of Hainan Airlines will be grounded if they are 10% above the standard weight limit. The weight of a flight attendant is decided by the formula of height (cm) minus 110 = standard weight (kg), The Strait Times reported.Hainan Airlines issued the guidelines in early June in an effort to regulate the weight of female flight attendants and maintain…