Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Aheda Zanetti, the Australian designer credited with inventing the burkini, at a swimsuit shop in western Sydney The Australian woman credited with creating the burkini says bans on the full-bodied Islamic swimsuit in France have boosted sales. The clothing – which combines “burqa” with “bikini” – leaves only the […]
Even the feminists and the liberal sections in the West are divided on whether the burqa, a garment that covers the entire body, or the niqab, the facial veil, represent personal freedom or suppression. While most experts agree that women, like men, should have the right and liberty to decide what to wear, it […]
Tencent Holdings tcehy and Samsung Electronics ssnlf are racing to be crowned Asia’s most valuable company as expectations for robust earnings growth push their share prices to record highs. Their surge – both have gained by a third this year – has made them the world’s best performing large-cap tech stocks and highlights how these […]
If someone offered you an all-expenses-paid trip to Asia, would you take it? Well, yeah. That, dear readers, is the split-second consideration process William Shatner says he underwent after being asked to appear on Better Late than Never—NBC’s four-episode series premiering Tuesday that sounds like it was created in a Mad Libs laboratory. (In actuality, […]
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“It’s still early days yet for the Jackson Hole conference … but the markets seem to be already discounting the possibility that Yellen may look to talk up a September rate hike,” said Angus Nicholson, a market analyst at spreadbettor IG. In the currency market, the dollar index, which measures the greenback against a basket […]
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is on the rocks, and if President Barack Obama’s legacy trade deal fails, the U.S. may find itself ceding power to China and struggling to secure its preeminence in Asia, reports The Wall Street Journal. The TPP, a 12-nation free-trade agreement, could eliminate around 18,000 tariffs inhibiting trade for roughly 40 […]
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North Korea threatened Monday to launch a nuclear first-strike and turn Seoul and Washington, D.C., into “a heap of ashes” — a threat that comes on the heels of China using its military to signal that it, too, would go to war to enforce its territorial claims. While Pyongyang’s threat isn’t new, it comes […]
