Hints and tips:
...I felt like I’d seen it hundreds of times.”...
...“If I found a pair of Dickies trousers in size 2T, I’d know that it’s too slim for my liking, so I’d look for a 5T and just shorten the legs or take in the waist. I modify everything.”...
...Chairwoman Le Thi Thu Thuy shared her reasons for optimism at the Nikkei and Financial Times’ Asia Green Tech Summit....
...Eddie Adams’ photograph of General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong suspect. Ron Haeberle’s photographs of the My Lai massacre....
...Florence Knight, chef, Sessions Arts Club: I’m brutal; I’d rather have an intimate group of people I know. What are your failsafe pre-dinner snacks?...
...I’m not rushing to buy one — just yet — but I definitely wouldn’t rule it out. And, in the meantime, I’m eyeing up that Lemaire “Bathrobe”....
...All my friends thought I'd lost my mind, like at every moment taking pictures of myself....
...If work is life, and studio is home, you’d struggle to anticipate the mockery....
...“Before that, I’d look at a tag and I’d think, How has anyone done that with all the CCTV? Whereas nowadays, I’d knock that out at 3 o’clock in the afternoon on a Thursday....
...Averse to populist politics, Hamid is much less like Changez than I’d presumed....
...In New Delhi, she’d stare out her classroom window, dreaming of flying the planes that soared past....
...Readers, I’d love to know what you think about this, as well. And with that, I’m off for the holidays for a week. I’ll be back in the Swamp after Christmas. Swamp Notes will resume on December 31....
...the average prime Monaco home price of €54,846 per sq m....
...Ho’s recent menu featuring yun nan mo gu (a mushroom and ham consommé) and cong you bing (a new form of Shanghai scallion pancake paired with Korean-style beef tartare) is the perfect combination of Chinese...
...Aurélia Nguyen, managing director of Covax, says Pfizer has hit its targets for delivering supplies to the programme....
...“I didn’t know that with Covid-19, there’d be people who want to import so much.”...
...“Hearing from them about what they’re up to next is very special because I’m a frustrated artist....
...Dutch co-founders Xuan-Thu Nguyen, head of design, and Renée van Wijngaarden, head of communications and marketing, met just 14 months ago....
...“I’m giving Joep credit here, for saving my life,” says Nefkens simply....
...Thu Lan Nguyen at Commerzbank said markets were relieved a deal had been struck, with the downsides likely to take some time to filter through....
...A 200 sq m Starbucks store in Ho Chi Minh City requires an initial investment of around $215,000, while a Coffee House shop requires $86,000, a local café shop owner estimates....
...Nguyen Dac Viet Dung, Sendo’s chairman, says he plans to raise more money to keep growing....
...Mr Cong, a 35-year-old Shanghai resident, will soon take delivery of his second Thai apartment, a 31 sq m studio in central Bangkok, for which he paid approximately Rmb500,000....
...He has moved from Downing Street back to Notting Hill, spent part of the summer in Vietnam, where he fired machine guns in a Viet Cong tunnel, he has an Uber app and recently discovered one can “touch in...
...Plus if you’re old enough to remember when VCs were the Viet Cong, it will catch you up....
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