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What Vietnam is considering to avoid US tariffs
Published on 02/03/2025
» HANOI - US President Donald Trump has announced plans for tariffs that could hit virtually all of Vietnam's goods exports to its top market, worth last year more than US$142 billion, according to UN data, about 30% of Vietnam's gross domestic product.
Poor Barbie... Oppenheimer's the bomb
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/03/2024
» The annual guessing game to read the minds of inscrutable Oscars voters is here.
New movies out this week: Dec 14-20
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 14/12/2023
» New titles that hit cinemas in Thailand this week.
The power of words
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 01/11/2023
» Following the success of the first event in 2019, Neilson Hays Library invites fans of literature or bookworms to the 2023 instalment of Bangkok Literature Festival, a celebration of books and ideas in the heart of Thailand's capital.
Adam's hat-trick deflates BG Pathum
Sports, Tor Chittinand, Published on 20/09/2023
» Ulsan Hyundai hammered Thai League 1 side BG Pathum United 3-1 in their opening Group I game of the AFC Champions League in South Korea on Tuesday.
Michael Jackson's moonwalk hat up for auction
AFP, Published on 19/09/2023
» PARIS - Just before performing his famous moonwalk dance for the first time, Michael Jackson tossed his hat to the side of the stage. Four decades later, it's up for auction in Paris.
Strike-hit Venice fest says Hollywood must prize 'art over content'
AFP, Published on 31/08/2023
» VENICE - Hollywood strikes robbed the Venice Film Festival of some of its usual glitz as it launched its 80th edition on Wednesday, but jury president Damien Chazelle said it was a warning that the industry must prize "art over content".
$6m raised to preserve Nina Simone's childhood home
AFP, Published on 24/05/2023
» NEW YORK: An art auction and New York gala have raised nearly US$6 million to preserve and restore the childhood home of soul music legend and civil rights activist Nina Simone, organisers said Tuesday.
Big Australian polluters face emissions caps
AFP, Published on 30/03/2023
» SYDNEY: Breakthrough climate laws passed by Australia on Thursday will target the nation's worst polluters, forcing coal mines and oil refineries to curb emissions by about five percent each year.
Skipping a generation under one roof
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/10/2022
» A year ago, Robert Elson began noticing a curious new array of beverages in the refrigerator of the condo he shares with his wife, Roni, on the Upper West Side: energy drinks and "different coffees that were totally alien", recalled Mr Elson. "And there were these different milks.