Online Friday kicks off with 5,000 promotional products Online Friday 2018 officially kicked off on December 7, with 5,000 products at promotional prices of 0 VND or with prices reduced by 80 to 90 percent, according to event organiser the Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (IDEA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Around 3,000 businesses registered to join the programme. Around 120,000 buyers can access the website onlinefriday.vn or the Online Friday app at the same time. Many big brands participate such as Samsung, Jetstar, Vinamilk, Lazada, Shopee, Tiki, Lotte, Adayroi, The gioi di dong (Mobile World), Yes24, FPTshop and ViettelStore. Delivery businesses such as VnPost, Nijavan, Lalamove and Snailship would support firms by reducing delivery costs for the event. Twenty banks will join in cash-back programmes to help customers use card payments. To ensure product and service quality, the organiser told firms to provide certificates of origin. The organiser … [Read more...] about BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF 9/12
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Can the Balsams, in all its nostalgic splendor, be saved?
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page By Annmarie Timmins Globe Correspondent November 26, 2018 DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H. — Because room service didn’t exist at the Balsams Grand Resort, every meal was eaten in the dining room, in one’s best clothes, at a table with strangers. Your waiter came to know your preferences because you had the same wait staff your entire stay.After dinner, guests socialized or borrowed a book from the library because rooms had no TVs or Internet.It was intentional, and it worked. The resort’s return rate was 85 percent even though it sat in remote northern New Hampshire, just an hour from Canada and at least 3½ from Boston. Advertisement Until his financing hit a major snag in August, developer Les Otten had the North Country hopeful he would revive the 150-year-old resort, shuttered since 2011. Three months later, enthusiasm is giving way to … [Read more...] about Can the Balsams, in all its nostalgic splendor, be saved?
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Quang Binh busts largest meth smuggling case Police seizes 308.6kg of crystal meth in the case Police of the central province of Quang Binh recently seized 308.6kg of crystal meth, the largest single amount confiscated in the province so far. On October 12, local police noticed a suspicious car on National Highway 1A in Le Thuy district of the province. When police asked the occupants to stop the car, they fled into a nearby forest. When examining the vehicle, police discovered 300 nylon bags of crystal meth weighing 308.6kg. The next morning, with the cooperation of local people, authorised forces arrested Xeng Vang, born in 1995 and residing in Bolikhamsai province of Laos, who was the car’s driver. He admitted he was hired to smuggle the drugs to Da Nang city for 10,000 USD. Local police are searching for other suspects. A day earlier, police in Nghe An province, also in the central part of Vietnam, arrested two drug traffickers, seizing 30 bricks of … [Read more...] about Social News 16/10
A breakdown of the Warriors’ looming roster decisions
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China, India grapple with the consequences too many men
(Giulia Marchi/Washington Post) Li Weibin, 30, a construction worker from Hunan, lives in a dormitory in Chang'an. He came to Guangzhou when he was 13 years old. (Poras Chaudhary/Washington Post) Nikita Chauhan, 14, was one of the girls who started a protest in hopes of being able to continue their education in the village school, to avoid the come-ons from men on the 1.5-mile walk to the high school. Sound The gallery will resume inseconds (Poras Chaudhary/Washington Post) Men in the village where Jyoti Chauhan, 14, lives model their behavior on Bollywood films. (Poras Chaudhary/Washington Post) Suresh Chauhan, the sarpanch, or mayor, of Gothara Tappa Dahina, says education is helping advance women's causes. (Poras Chaudhary/Washington Post) Suresh Kumar says the suffocation he feels as a single 35-year-old is palpable. (Poras Chaudhary/Washington Post) Om Pati is the mother of seven sons, including from left, Sandeep, Sanjay and Suresh. (Yan … [Read more...] about China, India grapple with the consequences too many men