Pity the single women of China at lunar new year: they have a better education and more money and Fendi handbags than ever before. But what many really need is a boyfriend to take home for the holidays.
Sui Wei, 29, makes a living fulfilling those needs: he rents himself out as a boyfriend to help women reassure worried parents that their only child is on the path to matrimony (when often, she is not). And if that doesn’t work, he is even happy to act as a husband-for-hire: he once served as groom in a bogus wedding ceremony, which netted him Rmb40,000 ($6,600). It’s a good life, servicing the needs of Chinese spinsterhood.
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The daily turn out of visitors broke all previous records at Dhaka International Trade Fair (DITF' 14) on Friday. The fair has turned into a get-together for the city dwellers on the third public holiday after the country’s biggest trade show began on January 11.
Encouraged by favourable weather, political stability and eye-catching recreation centres for children, thousands of dwellers especially youths along with their friends and family members flocked the ticket counters rushing to enter the fair premises at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the city, reports BSS.
Russian men who down large amounts of vodka — and too many do — have an “extraordinarily” high risk of an early death, a new study says.
Researchers tracked about 151,000 adult men in the Russian cities of Barnaul, Byisk and Tomsk from 1999 to 2010. They interviewed them about their drinking habits and, when about 8,000 later died, followed up to monitor their causes of death.
The risk of dying before age 55 for those who said they drank three or more half-liter bottles of vodka a week was a shocking 35 percent.
Shahjalal Islami Bank Limited (SJIBL) inaugurated two days long “Annual Managers’ Conference-2014” on Friday at Ruposhi Bangla Hotel in the capital. The opening ceremony of the conference was presided over by its managing director Farman R Chowdhury while the chairman of the Board of Directors of the bank AK Azad was present as chief guest.
The meeting evaluated the performance of the last year and...
Md. Abdul Karim, Managing Director, Palli Karma Sangsthan Foundation (PKSF) inaugurated the first ba...
Md. Abdul Karim, Managing Director, Palli Karma Sangsthan Foundation (PKSF) inaugurated the first ba...
