Despite the floundering economy, nail salons are going forth and prospering all across the UK. In the past year, the number of new manicure outlets has increased by 20 percent. Some in the beauty industry have cheerfully — and naively — chalked this up to the makeup being "recession proof." In reality, though,…
Vietnam could, through an interesting confluence of government policy and national journalism, be on track to legalize same-sex marriage, something that would set it apart from other countries in Southeast Asia where the issue, according to the AP, hasn't really been up for debate. The Justice Ministry recently…
There is nothing that makes you more desperate to escape the claustrophobic confines of an airplane than a screaming child. It can certainly feel like an emergency when one is in the vicinity, but one woman in Vietnam got a little carried away with the urgency of the situation. Her child was screaming and she wanted…
Long have advocates of the traditional family unit bemoaned the death of marriage and long have internet smart alecks made fun of their ridiculous claims that it's being destroyed by gays, divorce, or the Kardashians. While the institution of marriage is changing in America, in Asia, it's sharply growing more and more…
What we know of the story of Vivian Maier's life and work, and of how 30,000 of her negatives came to be acquired at a Chicago estate auction by a 26-year-old real estate agent and amateur historian, is breathtaking.
• Scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology claim that they have made genetic modifications in female mice that cause them to "reject the advances of their male counterparts and attempt to mate with fellow females."
[Hanoi, March 11. Image via Getty]
[Bac Ninh, Vietnam; February 26. Image via Getty]
[Vientiane, Laos; December 14. Image via Getty]
[Vientiane, Laos; December 2. Image via Getty]
• Jaycee Dugard says her alleged captor and rapist, Phillip Garrido, didn't touch their two daughters and "hadn't touched her in years," according to law enforcement sources.
This photograph, of a young, screaming girl running through the streets, her skin burning from napalm, has become one of the most iconic images from the Vietnam War. Recently, the subject of the photo spoke out about her long recovery.
• Ugh. Could someone please explain why Hugh Hefner is appearing in ads for Guitar Hero 5? Does seeing him in his bathrobe, surrounded by pants-less playmates playing air-guitar actually make anyone want to buy the game? •
[Hanoi, July 27. Image via Getty]
• American journalist Roxana Saberi arrived in Austria today and reunited with her parents after being released from prison in Iran. Her jail term was reduced to a two-year suspended sentence. •
[Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam; May 5. Image via Getty]
In a recent survey that could hurt Egypt's tourism industry, two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women and most of them blame women for wearing tight clothes and not being home by 8 pm. Of course, harassment is defined as everything from hollering at and ogling women to whipping it out and groping (more…
The Miss Universe 2008 pageant was held yesterday in Nha Trang, Vietnam and Americans proved once again that we cannot sashay: Miss USA, Crystle Stewart, became the second Miss USA contestant in as many years to take a tumble during the eveningwear competition. Stewart, 26, is a motivational speaker from Texas who is…
The U.S. Embassy is accusing Vietnam of allowing adoption fraud to thrive, according to a new nine-page report. This document "describes brokers scouring villages for babies, hospitals selling infants whose mothers cannot pay their bills, and a grandmother giving away her grandchild — without telling the child's mother," …
Ah, to be a fashion editor at Marie Claire! The photo shoots! So global! Recently, they've been in Bhutan
Here are a few recipes you won't find in Martha Stewart Living! Sauteed rat with spring onion and herbs, steamed rat with lemon leaves, and ground rat meat chili! In the wake of bird flu epidemic, the Vietnamese have gotten inventive. Rat costs a third less than pork and tastes "delicious," according to somebody who…
Note to actress Hoang Thuy Linh: next time, you should keep the sex tape. The popular VietnameseTV star has been nationally reviled ever since a 16-minute tape featuring her getting randy with her ex-boyfriend hit the internet. Her show, Vang Anh's Diaries, in which Linh "portrayed an earnest high school girl, modern…
You just can't make this shit up. (Well, if we could make this shit up, maybe bloggers would still be getting book deals!) Anyway we have just learned that the photographer responsible for what may well turn out to be one of the most iconic images of 2007 (above).**UPDATE BELOW
Is the same man responsible for what…
