The exceptional 18-hour documentary by American filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about the Vietnam War is online. It tells and proves a story quite different from that which prevailed in the conventional version. For example: in 1968, during the Tet Offensive, when the United States prevailed but was faced …
Read More »Boy enters container, sleeps, gets locked and ends up in another country
posted on 26/01/2023 20:51 Boy travels more than 3,000 km in a container – (credit: Reproduction/Facebook/Henna Ooi/INFO BERITA SEMASA) The year hadn’t even started right, and several videos about a young man lost in Malaysia began to take over social networks. The viral content just showed a boy stepping out …
Read More »Is demographic crisis more defining than climate change? – 01/24/2023 – Ross Douthat
There are two types of people in the world: those who believe the defining challenge of the 21st century will be climate change and those who know it will be low births, declining populations, the aging of the world. To start a column like this is to become hostage to …
Read More »Year of the Rabbit or the Cat? Here’s the Meaning of Chinese New Year | New Year
If in the West we are in 2023, in the East, where the calendar is different from the Gregorian, the year 4721 will enter. This Sunday, January 22, is the Chinese New Year. According to the zodiac, this is the year of the Rabbit, a symbol of patience, longevity and …
Read More »Year of the Rabbit or the Cat? Here’s the Meaning of Chinese New Year | New Year
If in the West we are in 2023, in the East, where the calendar is different from the Gregorian, the year 4721 will enter. This Sunday, January 22, is the Chinese New Year. According to the zodiac, this is the year of the Rabbit, a symbol of patience, longevity and …
Read More »Two slaughterhouses in Rondônia are authorized to export meat to Asia; one of them is Marfrig, from Chupinguaia
Another unit released is Frigon, from Grupo Irmãos Gonçalves Frigorífico Marfrig, from Chupinguaia, in the south of Rondônia, is one of the 11 Brazilian units authorized to export to Indonesia, a country in Southeast Asia. The information circulated this Wednesday in the specialized press in the center of the country. …
Read More »Chinese billionaire loses more than 90% of his fortune in six years
Hui Ka Yan © AFP/China PerCarolina Quaresma January 20, 2023 • 08:27 The chairman of Chinese real estate giant Evergrande has lost nearly 93% of his net worth. Hui Ka Yan was once the second richest person in Asia, but his fortune has dropped from US$42 billion (approximately €38 billion) …
Read More »The country where onions are more expensive than meat – 01/14/2023 – Mercado
As in many Latin American countries, garlic and onion are at the heart of Philippine cuisine. The habit of sautéing with both ingredients dates back to the period of colonization by Spain, which lasted between 1521 and 1898 and ended up influencing the country’s cuisine. For nearly a month, however, …
Read More »Japan will give BRL 40,000 per child for families to leave Tokyo – 01/09/2023 – Mercado
Japan plans to increase financial incentives for parents who choose to move out of Tokyo as the government tries to reverse decades of demographic decline, economic migration and the lure of the world’s biggest metropolis. Officials briefed on the plan say the government will try to convince families to move …
Read More »Bank executive arrested after urinating on plane passenger – 01/08/2023 – Mercado
Indian police arrested a senior executive at a US-based banking company on Saturday over an episode in late November in which the executive allegedly urinated on a female passenger on an Air India flight from New York to New York. Delhi. The executive, Shankar Mishra – who was recently fired …
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