Delicious Vietnamese recipes with a serving of inspiration – the KOTO cookbook The cover of Koto: A Culinary Journey Through Vietnam by Tracey Lister and Andreas Pohl. Photo: Jonathan Wong
When Australian chef Tracey Lister and her husband, Andreas Pohl, took a two-year sabbatical to live in Hanoi, Vietnam, helping to open a cooking school for disadvantaged youth was not on their agenda.
By chance, Lister met Jimmy Pham, who had founded KOTO - an acronym for Know One, Teach One - a business to help street children, which had outgrown its original space and was moving to larger premises. Born in Ho Chi Minh City to a Vietnamese mother and a Korean father, Pham migrated to Australia with his mother and siblings in 1980. Nineteen years later, armed with a degree in tourism, he moved back to Vietnam.
China refutes Belgian politician’s ‘baseless’ claim about Chinese spies gaining access to Alibaba’s logistics hub at Liege Airport Daniel Ren in Shanghai ren.wei@scmp.com The arrival of the inaugural freight train service from eastern China s Yiwu to Liege in Belgium on November 19, 2020. Photo: Xinhua.
China s embassy in Belgium has hit out at what it calls baseless allegations by a Belgian minister that a logistics hub in the country operated by Alibaba Group Holding could be used by Chinese spies for access to sensitive intelligence.
The hub at the Liege Airport in eastern Belgium near the city of Maastricht is one of six global logistics centres that enables the world s largest e-commerce platform to deliver products anywhere within 72 hours.
China and Indonesia conducted joint naval exercises in waters off Jakarta, Beijing said on Sunday, as the two countries work to improve trust and cooperation amid tensions in the South China Sea. The drills, which took place on Saturday morning, were part of the PLA Navy's annual training programme, the defence ministry said. China's Liuzhou and Suqian guided-missile frigates joined Indonesia's KRI Usman Harun frigate and KRI Halasan missile.