Actor Tom Hiddleston apologises to aid workers for speech at Golden Globes
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British actor Tom Hiddleston has apologised to aid workers for comments he made at the Golden Globe Awards about how viewing his TV series “The Night…
Australia bans green and raw prawn import from Vietnam
Australia has placed an indefinite ban on the import of green, raw prawns from a number of Asian countries, including Vietnam. According to the Vietnam News Agency, the ban was…
Samsung to invest $2.5 billion into Vietnamese factories
Samsung Electronics will invest $US2.5 billion in Vietnam, according to a report by South Korea’s news agency Yonhap. The report cited unnamed sources who said the company was in talks…
Smoking costs $1 trillion, soon to kill 8 million a year – WHO/NCI study
GENEVA – Smoking costs the global economy more than $US 1 trillion a year, and will kill one third more people by 2030 than it does now, according to a…
Hỏi và giải đáp 203: Vấn nạn thích sống độc thân
Lần này, TL giới thiệu lá thư rất thú vị và cũng khá… nhức đầu của nữ độc giả NB. Xin đăng nguyên văn thư: Cô Thanh Lan quý mến,…
Watchdog urges greater protection of UK transgender prisoners as deaths climb
LONDON – Transgender prisoners in Britain need more support and greater protection from bullying and harassment, a government watchdog said on Tuesday, more than a week after a transgender woman…
Norway seeks to overturn ruling it violated killer Breivik’s rights
SKIEN – Norway will appeal on Tuesday against a court ruling that it violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Behring Breivik by keeping him too isolated in jail…
Amid hacking row, pressure builds on Trump to soften pro-Russia rhetoric
WASHINGTON – President-elect Donald Trump is finding himself caught between his desire to improve relations with Russia and fellow Republicans who are pushing for a harsher response to what American…
Australian police say they are helping with 1MDB investigations
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) say they are working with international law enforcement agencies to investigate companies associated with Malaysia’s scandal-hit sovereign wealth fund. 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB), founded by…
Gambia minister defects amid political impasse
DAKAR – Gambia’s communication minister, Sheriff Bojang, said on Monday he had left his post in the first high-profile Cabinet defection since President Yahya Jammeh refused to accept losing a…
