Athens Fashion Week marks 10-year anniversary with creativity on October 26, 2016ATHENS: Athens Xclusive Designers Week, the only fashion industry event to survive the seven-year economic crisis in Greece, has celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Athens Fashion Week, running from October 21 to 24, aimed to shake off the recession blues with a rich programme of catwalks and parallel shows, promoting creativity as a force to move […]
We owe our jaws to Chinese prehistoric fish on October 22, 2016Did you ever wonder where your jaws came from? A recent study conducted by palaeontologists from China and Sweden has revealed that our jaws can be traced back to extinct armoured prehistoric fish that has dominated the oceans and rivers around 400 million years ago. The findings, published in the US journal Science, were based […]
Walk faster and sit less to build on health on October 17, 2016While walk 10,000 steps a day is the popular target, researchers suggest that a smaller number, especially at moderate or greater intensity, can lead to health benefits too. “Some physical activity is better than none, and typically more is better than less,” said John Schuna Jr, assistant professor of kinesiology in the College of Public […]
Brunei faces serious children overweight problem on October 16, 2016Brunei is facing serious children overweight problem, because one in every two children from the age of five is either overweight or obese in the sultanate, Hj Zulkarnain, Brunei’s Minister of Health said in a message to mark the World Obesity Day 2016. Hj Zulkarnain said being overweight and obese have “seemingly become the new […]
Camel milk may have zero health benefits on October 11, 2016Camel milk, now hugely popular among Australians and claimed to help with autism, diabetes and cancer, could be nothing but a dodgy product with untrue health claims, An Australian consumer watchdog has said. Choice, a not-for-profit organisation, has singled out Camel Milk Victoria as it found its health claims to be too good to be […]
Bangladesh has potential to end poverty by 2030: WB on October 3, 2016DHAKA: Bangladesh has done an impressive job in reducing poverty over the last decades and has the potential to end extreme poverty by 2030 if it takes firm steps to make growth more inclusive to benefit all Bangladeshis, said the World Bank Monday. Under the new 1.90-U.S. dollars poverty line based on 2011 purchasing power, […]
Greek exhibition unveils 7,500 years of jewellery on September 27, 2016An exhibition hosted at Mykonos Archaeological Museum, which features more than 200 largely unknown treasures, offers a journey into the history of Cycladic jewellery. The exhibition, under the title “Vanity – Stories of Jewellery in the Cyclades”, display a wide range of ornaments from simple, beaded jewels made of shell, bone and ivory to lavish […]
Laos Fashion Week wraps up on September 18, 2016Local and regional labels were out in force as Lao Fashion Week 2016 arrived at its penultimate evening on Friday in the Lao capital Vientiane. Four evenings of fashion came to a climax under a full autumn moon by the Mekong River at Vientiane’s Landmark Hotel with local and regional labels competing for the attention […]
Chinese homemade mooncakes ease homesickness on September 17, 2016For Song Lina, a Chinese mother of a six-year-old boy and owner of a popular restaurant in Cairo, capital of Egypt, the Mid-Autumn Festival has “a special meaning” this year as traditional mooncakes are served for the first time at her restaurant. Waking up in the early morning, she has been busy all day preparing […]
Plus size fashion festival and beauty contest kicks off in St Petersburg on September 11, 2016ST PETERSBURG: Twenty fashion designers from Russia, Bulgaria, Belarus and Kazakhstan presented their Plus Size collections for women at the Plus Size Week Fest 2016 in St Petersburg, which started on Saturday. The festival will also host a beauty contest among women with XL size and bigger. The organisers believe that many plus-sized women’s rejection […]