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Vietnamese are paying hundreds of dollars for gold plated tiger models as gifts as Lunar New Year draws near, bucking a major economic slowdown caused by the pandemic. Tet, as it is known in Vietnam, is the most important festival of the year and the occasion for people to give gifts to loved ones and business partners.

Featuring 24 oil-on-canvas paintings, Wings of Tomorrow is an exhibition of new work by the emerging Battambang-based artist Pen Robit that was organised as a collaborative effort between Silapak Trotchaek Pneik (STP) and Richard Koh Fine Art (RKFA). The show is part of STP’s re-launch campaign after closing due to Covid-19 in February, 2021.

A three-level building with western-style decor houses Playroom Cambodia, a newly established ultimate indoor entertainment centre in Toul Kork district featuring axe throwing and archery for those seeking a unique sporting experience.

Influential fashion journalist Andre Leon Talley, the first Black creative director of Vogue, died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 73, with figures from fashion and entertainment paying tribute.

At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn’t even own a smartphone.

Robert Tomlinson picks rhubarb stalks by candlelight in the dark, carrying on a century-old family tradition that survives today despite the challenges posed to his business by Brexit and climate change.

The Berlinale, Europe’s first major film festival of the year, will take place next month as an in-person event, organisers confirmed Wednesday, just as the Omicron wave is expected to peak in Germany.

Cambodias Minister of Agriculture hosts meeting on agricultural cooperation with a Chinese company identified only as “Hualong”.

From her home in Finland’s far north, Ristenrauna Magga recalls the day in 1968 when she and her family were stripped naked while researchers took measurements and blood tests. “Sami people were used to doing what we were told, no-one questioned the research,” Magga says, of Finland’s “racial biology” programme into the Sami minority which continued into the 1970s.

On a frosty morning in London’s Hyde Park, onlookers aim their mobile phones at the top of the Serpentine Gallery.