By Reuters  May 23, 2023 | 06:53am GMT+7 Tourists visit the Grand Palace in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 7, 2023. Photo by Reuters Thailand’s unemployment rate hit a three-year low in the first quarter, the state planning agency said on Monday, declining to 1.05% from 1.15% in the last three months of 2022 as recovery in the crucial tourism industry strengthened. . Source: Internet
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By Reuters  May 23, 2023 | 06:52am GMT+7 Fishing boats with Chinese national flags are seen at a harbor in Tanmen, Hainan province. Photo by Reuters/Megha Rajagopalan Seven bodies were recovered from a Chinese fishing vessel that capsized in the central Indian Ocean, according to state media on Monday, days after China President Xi Jinping ordered an all-out search to rescue and recover missing crew members. . Source: Internet
She still remembers that night back in April.”In my mind, our parents have sacrificed so much so we could be successful, and now we’re just throwing them into a nursing home just to be done with it,” said Thy, a 51-year-old woman living in Tay Ho District,She said that the more she thinks about it, the more she’s scared of what might happen to her mother.Will she be sad and depressed without her daughter at her side?”When I think about this, I just want to hug my mom and apologize,” Mai Thy said. Mai Thy (white shirt) visiting her 91-year-old…
An oversized belly is a common bane among many mothers, and Nhung, an office worker in the northern province of Ninh Binh, was no exception. Nhung said her average weight was around 50 kg, but after having her first child, she went up to 87 kg. When she was pregnant for the second time ballooned to 97 kg. Thuy Nhung after having her second child. “It’s hard for us to have kids, so for our first child, I had to use a lot of traditional medicine and supplements to do artificial insemination in one year,” Nhung said.”On the day that…
This monochrome painting was painted in 2019 and named “Ky Uc Ve Mot Quan Cafe” (The Memory of A Cade). When he started his work in the 1970s, Ngo Dong encountered many hardships, as the majority of painters at that time didn’t approve of his realistic style. The trend at that moment was post-impressionism minimalist paintings with hints of Indochina and folk elements. “However, one day I realized that the only beautiful things in the world are nature and the energetic daily lives of people out there,” he said. “For example, [there was one time I felt inspired when I…
The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta continued to transfer data beyond a 2020 EU court ruling that invalidated an EU-US data transfer pact. It tops the previous record EU privacy fine of 746 million euros handed by Luxembourg to Amazon.com Inc in 2021.The battle over where Meta’s Facebook stores its data began a decade ago after Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems brought a legal challenge over the risk of US snooping in light of disclosures by former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.Meta said in a statement that it will appeal the ruling,…
Group of Seven (G7) declarations issued on Saturday singled out China on issues including Taiwan, nuclear arms, economic coercion and human rights abuses, underscoring the wide-ranging tensions between Beijing and the group of rich countries which includes the United States.”The US is pushing hard to weave an anti-China net in the Western world,” Global Times said in an editorial on Monday titled “G7 has descended into an anti-China workshop”.”This is not just a matter of brutal interference in China’s internal affairs and smearing China, but also an undisguised urge for confrontation between the camps.”Beijing’s foreign ministry said it firmly opposed…
The opposition Move Forward and Pheu Thai parties dominated last week’s election in a resounding defeat of conservative parties backed by a royalist military that has controlled government since a 2014 coup.They are seeking to form a coalition government with six other parties, all of which are due to sign the agreement on their objectives later on Monday. Reuters was able to review a draft of the pact.The signing takes place on the ninth anniversary of a military coup against a democratically elected government that ushered in phase of military rule that the winners of the May 14 polls hope…
By Minh Hang  May 22, 2023 | 11:50 am GMT+7 I’m 29 and I dated my husband for four years before getting married. We’ve been married for 4 months, and I recently found out that my husband has been cheating on me with his ex for 4 years. Ever since we started dating, I knew that he loved both of us at the same time, and I knew I was the one who came after. He thing me even though his ex begged him to stay.A few months later, I found out that she was pregnant and chose to have…
By Reuters  May 22, 2023 | 09:46am GMT+7 Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends a Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment event during the G7 summit, at the Grand Prince Hotel in Hiroshima, Japan, May 20, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Jonathan Ernst China Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong has summoned the Japanese ambassador to register protests over “hype around China-related issues” at the Group of Seven (G7) summit over the weekend, a ministry statement late on Sunday said. Sun said Japan collaborated with the other countries at the G7 summit “in activities and joint declarations … to smear and attack China,…