By Reuters August 11, 2023 | 09:14 GMT+7 U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during a news conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki, Finland July 13, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Kevin Lamarque US President Joe Biden on Thursday called China a “ticking time bomb” due to its economic woes and said the country was struggling due to weak growth. “They’re in trouble. It’s not good because when the bad guys are in trouble, they do bad things,” Biden said at a political fundraiser in Utah.Biden’s remarks echoed comments he made at another fundraiser in June when he called President Xi…
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Once done, the 64-year-old quickly crosses the now empty parking lot to escape the sweltering July heat. As she crosses the first floor, she opens the doors to the empty rooms to filter out the smell of mold.The silence is only occasionally disturbed by the noise of vehicles carrying the goods of departing workers.Alley 58 on Fifth Street, Tan Tao A Ward, Binh Tan District, HCMC was once known as a workers’ pension hub, but the place has never been so desolate.With its convenient location near industrial areas, the 150-200 rooms for rent in the alley were once all occupied…
Oanh and Binh went to the United States in late July for a honeymoon after holding their engagement ceremony and will return to Vietnam on August 12.During the two-week trip, the actress said her most memorable experience was throwing up in a helicopter and gazing at the volcano with her husband on Tuesday. Actress Phuong Oanh and tech entrepreneur Nguyen Hoa Binh before taking a helicopter ride to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. Photo courtesy of Phuong Oanh When the helicopter took off, Oanh felt dizzy and was sick several times along the way. After reaching the destination, she recovered but…
By Hang Tran August 10, 2023 | 5:27 p.m. GMT+7 It took the team of wedding planners four days to complete setting up Linnie Phan and Jimmy Phan’s wedding ceremony, inspired by the movie ‘Alice in Wonderland’. The couple held a second wedding ceremony in the bride’s hometown, the Vietnamese imperial city of Hue, last month, following their first similarly themed wedding ceremony in the United States.It is reported that their marriage in the United States cost 21 billion VND (about $884,000). The bride’s wedding received 26 red books on the wedding day Linnie Phan and Jimmy Phan’s wedding in…
Tropical Storm Khanun, which hit Japan before taking a circuitous route to the Korean Peninsula, made landfall around 09:20 local time (0020 GMT) in the south and is expected to move north, spreading heavy rain throughout the country, the South Korean weather agency said.More than 10,000 people have been evacuated and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo has urged local governments to ‘check whether residents in high-risk areas have failed to evacuate’ and ensure they do so .Typhoon warnings have been issued across the country, with downpours of up to 500 millimeters forecast in northeast coastal areas and 100 to 200 millimeters…
China cut itself off from the world in 2020 under a strict zero-Covid strategy, using visa suspensions and lengthy quarantines to curb the importation of virus cases into the country.Thursday’s announcement is the latest step towards reopening, after the Chinese government abruptly dropped its lockdown measures in December.”From now on, travel agencies across the country and online travel agencies will resume their overseas group travel business” in more than 70 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and South Korea, the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism said in a statement. statement.Among many others, the listing has also given…
The long-awaited order authorizes the US Secretary of the Treasury to prohibit or restrict US investments in Chinese entities in three sectors: semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies and certain artificial intelligence systems.The administration said the restrictions would apply to “narrow subsets” of the three areas, but did not elaborate. The proposal is open for public comment.The order aims to prevent US capital and expertise from helping China develop technologies that could support its military modernization and undermine US national security. The measure targets private equity, venture capital, joint ventures and start-up investments.Biden, a Democrat, said in a letter to…
By Reuters August 10, 2023 | 09:11 GMT+7
Several neighborhoods were burned as the west side of the island, including the tourist resort of Lahaina, was nearly cut off with only one freeway open as officials reported widespread devastation that it was still too early to quantify.”We just had the worst disaster I’ve ever seen. All of Lahaina is burnt to ashes. It’s like an apocalypse,” said Lahaina resident Mason Jarvi, who escaped from the city.Jarvi showed Reuters photos he took of the ashen-colored destruction along the Lahaina waterfront. Wearing shorts, he also showed blisters on his thigh which he said he suffered while riding through the flames…