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Nguyen To Quyen used to weigh 107 kilograms. After undergoing specialist surgery and eating healthily for a year, she’s now only 67 kilograms. Quyen after shedding 35 kilograms. Photo by VnExpress/Phuong Thao Before her marriage, Quyen weighed 48 kg and was 1.65-meter-tall. After her second childbirth in 2019, her weight …

Duc Hung’s family spent a whole night in June debating whether or not to eat their 12-kilogram pet dog. They were preparing a homecoming celebration for a relative who’d been living abroad, and Hung wanted to serve dog meat, a local specialty from his hometown of Hai Phong, to mark …

Famous Chinese actress Li Yitong has been facing backlash after a video of her putting both feet on an airplane seat went viral. The video, in which Li is seen with her shoes off and both feet on her airplane seat, went viral on Chinese social media platforms Sunday and …

Techcombank held an event in Australia to recruit employees last week and it attracted nearly 80 senior-level personnel and over 3,000 other candidates. Australia is the fourth destination for such an event after successful earlier ones in Singapore, the U.K. and the U.S. last year. It helped the lender connect …

Thai mango salad has sold out across the country after Lisa from K-Pop girl group sensation Blackpink posted a photo of the dish on her Instagram. Lisa posted the photo for her 95 million Instagram followers with the caption: “Mango salad straight from Thailand.” Although the photo was only available …

Miss Grand International 2021 Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien says she was wrong for removing her title from her Instagram account while also denying that she’s ungrateful to the contest’s eccentric president. Miss Grand International 2021 Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien. Photo from Tien’s Instagram Tien said on her livestream Sunday that …

I have always said that I will take care of my own children, so I will not ask for help from my mother-in-law. I’m 35, married with two kids, with the smaller one being only 11 months old. After our marriage, my husband and I lived in the same house …

Warner Bros’ highly-anticipated film “Barbie” movie would be banned from distribution in Vietnam for featuring China’s nine-dash line that violates Vietnam’s waters sovereignty. Vi Kien Thanh, director general of Vietnam Cinema Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, said Monday that the ban was decided by the National …

Nawat Itsaragrisil, president of Miss Grand International, said Miss Grand International 2021 Nguyen Thuc Thuy Tien was immature for removing her title from her Instagram profile. Tien and Itsaragrisil. Photo from Miss Grand International’s Instagram After unfollowing Tien on Instagram Friday, Itsaragrisil went on a livestream Saturday and called her …

Uyen had to borrow VND5 million (around $212) from her friends to pay for her appendix operation. She’s been working for years, but has been unable to save. The 28-year-old office worker in Ho Chi Minh City isn’t in Vietnam’s low-income group because her monthly salary is around VND20 million. …