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The most accomplished show in the current New York fashion week has to be Michael Kors, whose exuberant Sixties slick chic collection won the most thunderous applause for any show this season. Before a packed audience in Lincoln Center on Wednesday, Sept. 12, the catwalk rocked from the opening passage – a couple in dramatic horizontal stripe jerseys; [...]
24-year-old Quach Hoai Thuong in Bac Lieu southern province was detained for stabbing her father-in-law to death after she got caught up in a drunken brawl with her husband’s family on Sunday. According to local police, when Thuong returned to the house of her husband’s family in Ba Chang hamlet in Vinh Loi district at [...]
A seminar discussing measures to boost the friendship and co-operation between Vietnamese and Cambodian women was held in Ho Chi Minh City on August 24. The first-ever event, co-organised by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) and the Cambodian Women’s Association for Peace and Development (CWAPD), was part of activities to mark the Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship [...]
On Wednesday afternoon, a taxi driver successfully helped a passenger couple with delivery of their child while enroute to hospital in Hoi An Town in the central province of Quang Nam, after the pregnant woman suddenly developed labor pains. Driver Nguyen Van Con holds the newborn baby (Photo: SGGP) At 4.30pm on Wednesday, taxi driver [...]
Forbes magazine ranked German Chancellor Angela Merkel the most powerful woman in the world for the second year in a row in the annual list dominated by politicians, businesswomen and media figures. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton placed second, followed by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, making the top three spots unchanged from last year. [...]
The phenomenal speeds reached by the teenage Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen at the 2012 Olympics are raising questions about whether the gap between men and women in sport may one day disappear. Ye, who has so far won two gold medals and broken a world record at the London Games, clocked a time for the [...]
In thoughts of many people, those who come first at the university entrance exams, must be the “bookworms,” or the children of well-off families which can fund expensive learning courses. However, many of them indulge in pleasures and the others are from very poor families. Than Thi Thu, who came first at the entrance [...]
A Ho Chi Minh City woman was badly assaulted and has fallen into a coma after her boyfriend hammered her into unconsciousness and cut her throat when she denied his suggestion to cohabit. Five days after agreeing to take a break and receiving VND10 million (US$480) for separation, Nguyen Van Thong, 43, returned to the [...]
A woman from Can Tho city has had a successful kidney transplant operation on July 11, in which her existing horseshoe kidney was replaced, said Dr. Bui Duc Phu, director of the Central Hospital in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue. Doctors at the Central Hospital in Thua Thien-Hue Province conducting the kidney transplant operation [...]
Leisel Jones will dive into London’s Aquatics Centre pool as the first Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympics and try to reclaim her crown as the world’s best woman breaststroker from American Rebecca Soni. Jones, the self-appointed “Mother Goose” of the Australian swim team, captured the 100 metres breaststroke title at the Beijing Games [...]