Tuesday , November 5 2024

Life & Love

Sensational TikTok faulted for fostering bad taste

Sensational TikTok faulted for fostering bad taste

Six of the last top 10 Vietnamese songs on TikTok were remixes, a trend that has become popular but is repetitive, trite and uncreative to some. With its short-clip format, people can use catchy tunes to create soundtracks for personal videos and slingshot an old or new song into virality …

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BLACKPINK members don Vietnamese designed outfits

Two members of K-pop girl group BLACKPINK wore outfits from Vietnamese brand Fanci Club of designer Duy Tran in the music video for “Pink Venom.” After the four-member group BLACKPINK made a comeback with their “Pink Venom” music video on Aug. 19, Duy Tran said on Instagram that Jisoo had …

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Foreign co-productions fail to impress moviegoers

Foreign co-productions fail to impress moviegoers

Films co-produced with foreign studios have repeatedly flopped at the local box office. Vietnamese studios collaborate regularly with foreign companies albeit the number of movies released every year is small. This year there have been three and they have ranged from unsuccessful to utter flops. Most recently “La May Tren …

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Tan Son Nhat among airports with lowest flight cancellation rates

Vietnam’s Tan Son Nhat is one of eight international airports with the lowest flight cancellation rates this summer at less than 0.3 percent, according to FlightAware. The other seven airports are Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi, the Philippines’s Ninoy Aquino, Singapore’s Changi, Turkey’s Sabiha Gökçen, Brazil’s Sao Paulo-Guarulhos, Qatar’s Hamad and South Korea’s …

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