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  Magician J will wow festival goers with a performance inspired by Japanese culture. — Photo courtesy of Sakuko Vietnam HÀ NỘI — Cultural activities and products from Japan will be featured during Japan Fest to be held in Hà Nội on November 23-24. The cultural festival is expected to draw 25,000 visitors to the Children’s Palace, 36 Lý Thái Tổ Street, Hà Nội. The festival will promote Japanese culture to Vietnamese people and foreign tourists. Hosted by Sakuko, a supplier of Japanese brands in Việt Nam, the event will feature 50 brands in food, baby goods, cosmetics, fashion and home decor. The scale of the festival is bigger than its previous version, Cool Japan Festival 2018. Apart from the fair, the festival will feature Japanese art performances, traditional dances with umbrellas and fans, music shows, tea ceremonies, lucky draws and a competition with prizes in cash. For two days, visitors … [Read more...] about Japan Fest to offer cultural performances and products

Britain's Jamie Murray (right) and Neal Skupski play against Kazakhstan during a Davis Cup tennis double match. (Source: AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) Britain will face Germany in Madrid on Friday night in the last eight, which begins later on Thursday with Australia up against Canada. On Friday, Serbia will face Russia and Spain take on Argentina. The British team knew defeat would ensure an early exit just as France, the tournament's top seeds, had already crashed out a few hours before at the hands of Serbia and Novak Djokovic. It made the gamble to leave Murray out of the singles all the more bold, even if the Scot appears to be struggling for fitness after his lengthy duel with Holland's Tallon Griekspoor on Wednesday. Instead, the three-time grand slam champion was cheering from the side as Kyle Edmund played brilliantly to see off Mikhail Kukushkin 6-3, 6-3 before Dan Evans was beaten 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 by Alexander Bublik to leave the tie in the balance. But Jamie Murray and his … [Read more...] about Britain sneak into Davis Cup quarter-finals without Murray

Infrastructure Site clearance on Dau Giay-Phan Thiet expressway being facilitated The Saigon Times Daily Friday,  Nov 22, 2019,17:10 (GMT+7) Site clearance on Dau Giay-Phan Thiet expressway being facilitatedThe Saigon Times Daily File photo of a car driving on the HCMC-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway. The Ministry of Transport has called for site clearance for the Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Expressway project to be expedited – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The local authority of Binh Thuan Province has made great efforts to speed up site-clearance work on the Dau Giay-Phan Thiet Expressway, according to the provincial Department of Transport. A working delegation from the Ministry of Transport and the provincial government of Binh Thuan on November 21 jointly worked on site clearance and compensation activities for the expressway section running through this south-central province, reported VietnamPlus news site. The … [Read more...] about Site clearance on Dau Giay-Phan Thiet expressway being facilitated

Fire fighters smoking a hornet nest before taking it away in Solo, in an effort to reduce numbers of the population following a string of fatal hornet attacks, on Nov 21, 2019. (Photo: AFP/Yuda Putranto) An 11-year-old student died in West Java Wednesday after he and three other pupils tried to destroy a nest of lesser banded hornets - a species notorious for its aggressive behaviour and a sting that can trigger a life-threatening allergic reaction. The fatal attack came after two elderly people were killed in hornet attacks this month in Central Java's Klaten city, which has seen a surge in victims. Seven people in the area were killed by hornet stings last year and hundreds more have been attacked over the past decade, according to local data. Several dozen health clinics across the city are on high alert for more victims, said Cahyo Widodo, head of Klaten's health agency. "All the health centres are now prepared to handle hornet attack cases," Widodo said. A group of volunteers … [Read more...] about Angry hornets kill 3 in Indonesia

Investment Foreign investment in realty M&As surges The Saigon Times Daily Friday,  Nov 22, 2019,17:04 (GMT+7) Foreign investment in realty M&As surgesThe Saigon Times Daily An aerial view of the Phu My Hung residential area in District 7, HCMC – PHOTO: VNA HCMC – Foreign investment in Vietnam through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the real estate sector between January and October 2019 rocketed 235% from a year earlier to a record high value of US$1.75 billion, data showed. Increasing competition among domestic and international investors for real estate projects, obstacles within the legal framework and the restructuring demand from local firms may be the main factors leading to a surge in M&A deals, reported news website VnEconomy. Data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment revealed that the total amount of newly registered and increased capital, capital contribution and share … [Read more...] about Foreign investment in realty M&As surges