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Park Geun-Hye, the daughter of a former South Korean dictator, on Tuesday formally announced her bid to become the country’s first woman president and vowed to work for a fairer economy. Park is widely expected to secure the ruling conservative New Frontier Party’s nomination at its primary next month. She is also considered the front-runner [...]
A former schoolgirl, 23-year-old Tran Ha Duy, who has been charged with drug trafficking, saw her life sentence increased to the death penalty at yesterday’s appeal hearing in Ho Chi Minh City. The hearing was opened by the appeal court of the Supreme People’s Court in HCMC, since the Supreme People’s Procuracy had protested the [...]
A visually impaired Vietnamese-American woman has conquered the tough judges of a US Master Chef cooking contest to receive a white apron and advance to the next round of competition. Christine Ha, who suffers from neuromyelitis optica (NMO) – an autoimmune disorder that affects the optic nerves and spinal cord and contributed to her loss [...]
Olivia Culpo of Rhode Island was named Miss USA on Sunday after saying it would be fair for transgendered contestants to win the pageant, giving her a crown that she will wear when representing the United States at the Miss Universe pageant later this year. Culpo competed in the traditional swimsuit and evening gown competitions [...]
Police are investigating the death of a woman in the highland province of Gia Lai when she was in labour, said lieutenant-colonel Tran Trong Son, deputy head of police in Duc Co District in Gia Lai Province on May 31. Relative of the dead woman faints on hearing the sad news Nguyen Thi Minh Tam, [...]
A woman who punched, scratched and slid her buttocks against a $30 million (19.5 million pounds) painting by abstract expressionist Clyfford Still at a Denver museum has been sentenced to two years of probation, and will have to undergo mental health treatment, prosecutors said on Thursday. Carmen Tisch, 37, pleaded guilty earlier this month to [...]
28-year-old Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, who used to have the appearance of a 70-year-old grandmother due to a rare aging condition, now looks decades younger after just one month undergoing medical treatment in Taiwan. She also had walking difficulties and other health problems before coming to Taiwan in April, said doctors at China Medical University [...]
Nguyen Minh Ha (27), who lives in Ho Chi Minh City’s Go Vap district, has received 7000 phone calls from strangers after her number was accidentally revealed on a TV series earlier this month. In a TV series titled Vong Kim Long broadcast on SCTV14 on May 2, the main actress read a friend her [...]
Mai Kieu Lien, CEO and chairwoman of Vinamilk, Vietnam’s largest dairy producer, has been listed as one of the top Asian CEOs by the Hong Kong-based Corporate Governance Asia Journal. The magazine released the list on May 13, naming Lien, 58, the only Vietnamese representative on the list, next to a stream of leaders of [...]
People magazine on Wednesday named Beyonce the World’s Most Beautiful Woman for 2012, describing her as a force of nature, style icon and proud mother. The 30-year-old singer, a 16-time Grammy Award winner, told the big-selling magazine that her recently born daughter had given new meaning to her life. “I feel more beautiful than I’ve [...]