By Linh On  June 10, 2023 | 06:25am GMT+7 Japan’s largest revolving sushi restaurant chain Sushiro is suing a teenager who posted a video of himself licking an open soy sauce bottle at one of its branches. Suhiro filed the suit seeking 67 million yen (around $480,000) in compensation at a local court in the city of Osaka, court documents showed on Thursday, according to the Bangkok Post.According to the complaint, the boy, whose name has been withheld, licked an open soy sauce bottle and an unused teacup before touching a sushi plate on the running conveyor belt with his…
Author: Mike Harrison
My husband and I have been married for 12 years, with an 11-year-old daughter and a 7-year-old son. The first two years we lived by ourselves, everyone was happy. But then it took a turn for the worse when my mother-in-law moved in. She used to live with her youngest daughter, who was still single.My father-in-law passed away a long time ago, so the plot of land that belonged to my husband’s family was passed down to his mother, we built a house on that land.When it comes to my mother-in-law, the most common opinion of myself, relatives, and people…
By Mai Nhat  June 9, 2023 | 02:19pm GMT+7 An event-organizing company faces a stiff fine after models wore backless camisoles and revealed their bottoms at a fashion show last month. The show, “New Tradition,” was held in Thu Duc City on May 6. After that, photos of models in the show wearing conical hats, camisole, customized ao dai and revealing their whole back, including the bottom.On Thursday the HCMC Department of Culture and Sports proposed to slap a fine of VND85 million ($3,620) on the show organizer, Objoff Co. Ltd. for inappropriate costumes and images that went against fine…
As the last search and rescue teams hang up their boots and the tent city at base camp packs up for the year, expert climbers say several of the 17 people killed or missing and presumed dead this season could have avoided disaster.”This season was very bad overall,” said expedition organizer Mingma Gyalje Sherpa, of Imagine Nepal Trek and Expedition, whose team was responsible for opening the route to the summit.”The main reason is that the weather was extremely cold…but there was also carelessness.”Higher death numbers were recorded in past seasons, but those tolls included several killed in single large-scale…
By Reuters  June 9, 2023 | 12:48 p.m. GMT+7 Women wearing summer kimonos use portable fans and an umbrella as they walk on the street at Asakusa district in Tokyo, Japan June 29, 2022. Photo by Reuters The Japanese government on Friday called for households and industries around Tokyo to save electricity in July and August to ensure a stable power supply during the peak summer season, though it did not set any numerical targets. The country’s power market is predicted to be less tight this summer in most of the regions than last summer when the government asked for…
“I bet a good portion of the wildfires raging across the country were started by green terrorists who want to give their climate change campaign a little boost,” Maxime Bernier, a former foreign minister-turned fringe party leader, said in a June 5 tweet .So far in 2023, Canada has seen larger wildfires than any previous year at this point in the season, with more than three million hectares burned. Tens of thousands of people have evacuated as a result.On TikTok, a video already viewed almost 20,000 times, claims the fires in Nova Scotia were set “on purpose to push a…
Hollywood actor Chris Hemsworth showed actress Katleen Phan Vo a fight move at the film premiere of his newly released film “Extraction 2.” Katleen, a third dan black belt in Wing Chun, was a guest at the premiere in Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday where she met Hemsworth and director Sam Hargrave. (From L) Chris Hemsworth, Katleen Phan Vo, and Sam Hargrave during the second day of the film premiere in Manila, the Philippines, on June 7, 2023. Photo from Katleen’s Instagram On hearing that she had learned the martial art as a child, Hemsworth was eager to show the…
The criminal case, brought by the US Department of Justice, amounts to another legal setback for Trump as he seeks to regain the US presidency next year. He already faces a criminal case in New York that is due to go to trial in March.Trump said on social media that he had been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in Miami on Tuesday. “I AM AN INNOCENT MAN!” he wrote on his Truth Social platform.Trump’s attorneys did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It is illegal for the government to comment publicly on any sealed grand jury…
By AFP  June 9, 2023 | 09:34am GMT+7 Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako wave during a royal parade in Tokyo. Photo by AFP. Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Indonesia this month on their first state visit since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne in 2019, the Japanese government said Friday. The June 17-23 trip comes after Indonesian President Joko Widodo invited the couple during a visit to Tokyo last year.”The visit will further strengthen the intimate relations of friendship and goodwill with Indonesia,” Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said in a statement.The royal couple has gradually resumed public…
For the last 10 days Dat’s family has been full of laughter as every evening relatives and neighbors come to talk and share the joy.”We have a wife, a mother and a grandmother eating with us now, which increases our happiness manifold,” the now 54-year-old Dat says. Mai (C) and her parents in her hometown Hai Phong. Photo by VnExpress/Lam Son Dat and Mai got married in 1990, and had two sons and a daughter. Dat worked as a carpenter and Mai was a farmer.In 1995, three months after giving birth to her third child, Mai was involved in a…