Tag: Vietnam

  • Why Pearls Keep Soaring In Popularity And Price

    Why Pearls Keep Soaring In Popularity And Price

    While diamonds used to be a girl’s best friend, pearls may now be the wiser purchase because we are in the middle of a Pearl Renaissance  and everyone from Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Ellen DeGeneres, Kris Jenner, and Angelina Jolie to Rihanna and Keira Knightly are sporting the pearl look. While pearls are soaring in popularity, so…

  • Act Now Or Lose African Elephants Forever

    Act Now Or Lose African Elephants Forever

    Elephants are super smart — as close to humans as apes, yet we are literally killing them to extinction. And they are obsessed with their death. They understand what is happening to them and their families, even identifying elephant bones and spending hours crying over them. Poaching is so emotionally devastating that it can take…

  • Lingerie From Colombia Combats Industry Control

    Lingerie From Colombia Combats Industry Control

    Building a business is one of the hardest things to do, especially when one is trying to build a business bigger than Victoria’s Secret, who owns 50 percent of the lingerie industry. But, Catalina Girald, founder of Naja Lingerie is setting out to do just that. Headquartered in Medellin, Colombia, with offices in San Francisco…

  • Wildlife Supply Chains for Human Consumption High In Coronaviruses

    Wildlife Supply Chains for Human Consumption High In Coronaviruses

    HA NOI (June, 2020) – A new study found that animals sampled in the wildlife-trade supply chain bound for human consumption had high proportions of coronaviruses, and that the proportion of positives significantly increases as animals travel from traders, to large markets, to restaurants. The study, which appears in the pre-print journal bioRxiv, is by a team of scientists…

  • Rankings Of One Day Cost At Over 300 Beaches Worldwide

    Rankings Of One Day Cost At Over 300 Beaches Worldwide

    Amsterdam, Netherlands, – Online travel specialists, TravelBird, have released their annual Beach Price Index, featuring more than 300 seaside locations from 70 countries around the globe. On a year-to-year basis, the price of holiday beaches can change substantially when you take into account factors such as currency fluctuation and inflation. As a company which prides…

  • Reader Letter To The Silo Regarding Motion 103 And Hamilton Protest Rally

    Reader Letter To The Silo Regarding Motion 103 And Hamilton Protest Rally

    Dear Silo, there was a protest rally held at City Hall in Hamilton this past weekend. The purpose was to discuss or protest “Motion-103 “the motion put forth by one Ms. Iqra Khalid to stop as she sees it “Islamophobia.” For many the idea of “M-103” seems almost redundant as hate speech and any sort…

  • WW2 Graphic Novel KATUSHA goes daily in free WEBCOMIC debut

    WW2 Graphic Novel KATUSHA goes daily in free WEBCOMIC debut

    Garth Ennis: “Wayne Vansant has done a magnificent job with these first two volumes of Katusha.” Wayne Vansant’s epic war story KATUSHA, GIRL SOLDIER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR is being made available to read for free at www.katushagirlsoldier.com.  KATUSHA  (according to babynology.com, Katusha is a dimunitive form of Russian Ekaterina and Yekaterina, meaning “little…

  • What Was Wrong With Canada Membership In Trans-Pacific Partnership?

    What Was Wrong With Canada Membership In Trans-Pacific Partnership?

    Egg and dairy farmers take note…..If you haven’t heard about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (aka TPP) you’re not alone. This major, multinational trade agreement, conducted in private closed-door meetings had already voted on several key issues even before President Obama invited Canada to join this spring. The TPP now includes the United States, Australia, Brunei, Chili,…