By Reuters and published by CNA PARIS: Longer, hotter summers are disrupting fashion’s seasonal calendar, forcing luxury brands to adapt designs and threatening sales of higher-margin winter clothing. The industry’s traditional cycle has long depended on consumers buying autumn and winter clothing as temperatures cool. But warmer autumns are delaying demand for coats and
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Some Paris Olympic athletes ask for medals to be replaced after quickly deteriorating
By AP and published by Yahoo!Sports SOME OF the medals from the Paris Olympics seem to be quickly losing their shine. The French mint told The Associated Press on Tuesday (Jan. 14) that it is replacing a number of medals from the 2024 Paris Games and Paralympics after athletes complained that they have already
Read more“View” Kunlavut assured of getting Olympic badminton medal
THAI badminton star Kunlavut Vitidsarn, or View, sealed his finals berth after defeating Malaysia’s national badminton player Lee Zii Jia today (Aug. 4) and will now bring home either a gold or silver Olympics medal – the first ever badminton medal for the country, Naewna newspaper said. Bookrak Ponsana was the last Thai shuttler
Read moreThai team in France as Olympics 2024 kicks off today
WITH the extravagant Olympics opening ceremony taking place in Paris, France, today (July 26) a Thai contingent of 25 athletes accompanied by six supporting staff are gearing up to join a procession of barges taking nearly 7,000 athletes along the Seine river passing Paris’s most famous landmarks, Naewna newspaper and Reuters, published by CNA,
Read moreRussian, Belarusian athletes not part of Paris Olympics opening ceremony
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Geneva – Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said on Tuesday (Mar. 19). The opening ceremony on July 26 will see thousands of athletes travel on boats down the
Read moreParis attack: Two hurt in stabbing near former Charlie Hebdo office
By BBC TWO PEOPLE have been seriously hurt in a knife attack in Paris near the former offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, officials say. A suspect has been detained in the nearby Bastille area. A second suspect has also been arrested, reports say. Anti-terrorism police have taken over the investigation. A security cordon
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