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Revealing debut for first Saudi in Paris Fashion Week
AFP, Published on 06/07/2023
» PARIS: Paris Fashion Week welcomed its first Saudi designer into the fold on Thursday, with a haute couture show full of daringly revealing looks.
Young Thai chefs shake up Bangkok's food scene
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» Thitid Tassanakajohn has a degree in economics from Thailand's top university but turned his back on a stable career in finance to launch a high-end restaurant in Bangkok -- a city famed for its street food.
Extreme piercing cleanses souls at Phuket vegetarian festival
AFP, Published on 27/09/2022
» Taoist devotees had body parts pierced with objects ranging from skewers and swords to a model ship on Tuesday as Phuket's Vegetarian Festival returned from a two-year Covid-19 pandemic hiatus.
Short hair, don't care: Saudi working women embrace cropped locks
AFP, Published on 23/06/2022
» RIYADH: When Saudi doctor Safi took a new job at a hospital in the capital, she decided to offset her standard white lab coat with a look she once would have considered dramatic.
Famed Hong Kong floating restaurant towed away after half a century
AFP, Published on 14/06/2022
» HONG KONG: Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a famed but ageing tourist attraction that featured in multiple Cantonese and Hollywood films, was towed out of the city Tuesday after years of revitalisation efforts went nowhere.
Egypt unveils five ancient tombs in Saqqara necropolis
AFP, Published on 20/03/2022
» SAQQARA, Egypt: Egypt unveiled Saturday five ancient Pharaonic tombs at the Saqqara archaeological site south of Cairo, the latest in a series of landmark discoveries in the area.
Egypt unveils Pharaonic 'Rams Road' at Karnak Temple
AFP, Published on 26/11/2021
» LUXOR: Egypt unveiled on Thursday a road lined with hundreds of ram-headed sphinx statues dating back more than 3,000 years, in a grandiose night-time ceremony at Karnak Temple in archaeologically-rich Luxor.
Hong Kong mountaineer on a high after fastest Everest climb by a woman
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» KATHMANDU: Former Hong Kong schoolteacher Tsang Yin-hung said Sunday she always believed in aiming high after setting a new record for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman.
Egypt unearths 'world's oldest' mass-production brewery
AFP, Published on 14/02/2021
» CAIRO: A high-production brewery believed to be more than 5,000 years old has been uncovered by a team of archaeologists at a funerary site in southern Egypt, the tourism ministry said Saturday.
Dubai breaks world record for largest fountain
AFP, Published on 23/10/2020
» DUBAI: The glitzy emirate of Dubai broke the record for the world's largest fountain on Thursday, as the Gulf city seeks to boost its hard-hit tourism sector amid the coronavirus pandemic.