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In response to the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO), the Youth Theater on Thursday will perform Stereo Woman at 11 Ngo Thi Nham Street in Hanoi. The experimental play reflects desires and inner feelings of homosexuals who are still discriminated against in society. They are not free to live a lifestyle of their [...]
Burberry creative director Christopher Bailey has announced the ten semi-finalists in the running for the coveted Fashion Fringeprize, whose previous winners have included Basso & Brooke, Erdem and most recently Fyodor Golan. The London-based emerging talent platform, this year chaired by Bailey, offers its eventual winner a two year-development package comprising financial support, business advice, mentoring and an [...]
Shortly after sending U.S. troops to Afghanistan in October 2001, President George W. Bush focused so intently on freeing Afghan women from the shackles of Taliban rule that empowering them became central to the United States’ mission there. More than a decade later, as his successor Barack Obama charts a way out of the unpopular [...]
A 17-year-old woman, who was at the 6th month of pregnancy, was unexpectedly in labor and gave birth to three baby girls. The teen mother and one of her babies. Da nang Hospital received a pregnant woman named Le Thu Suong,17, in mid-April when the young woman (from the southern province of Bac Lieu) went [...]
A Mexican official has denied a woman’s claims that she was due to give birth to nine babies in the coming weeks. “She is not pregnant,” Jorge Luna, secretary of health in the northern state of Coahuila, told AFP after authorities carried examined the woman’s claims to local media. Karla Vanessa Perez Garcia and her [...]
Jackson/Winkeljohn MMA fighter Heather Clark is the latest to have success to the sweet science. Clark won a split decision victory in her boxing debut against Chavira Jack at the Golden Girl Promotions card at Santa Ana Star Casino in Albuquerque, NM Saturday night. The scores were 37-39, 39-37, and 39-37. World class boxers like Holly Holm and Jodie Esquible train with [...]
The top fashion design prize of the 27th Hyères International Fashion Festival, held in the south of France (April 27-30), was awarded Sunday to a trio of Finnish designers: Elina Laitinen, Siiri Raasakka and Tiia Siren. After the ten finalist designers presented their collections in a runway show, the international jury, headed by Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto, chose to single out the menswear collection from [...]
One year after some two billion people around the world tuned into watchBritain’s Prince William marry Kate Middleton, the global media remain captivated with the lives of the now Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The wedding fervor, which saw a million Britons cram the streets of London on April 29, 2011 to catch a glimpse of the future [...]
SOME months after Jeremy Bernard became the first man and openly gay person to be the White House social secretary, he visited an assisted living center in suburban Maryland. There, he and Letitia Baldrige, the 86-year-old legendary social secretary of the Kennedy administration, spent what Mrs. Baldrige fondly remembers as a convivial hour and a [...]
SHE has a million-plus followers on Twitter, but often walks her son to school. She was interviewed by Italian Vogue, but goes incognito to pop-up parties in Chinatown. She vacations on yachts in Europe, but talks giddily of sneaking into the Chick-fil-A in Greenwich Village. Since moving to New York City from Los Angeles last [...]