MANILA (Reuters) – Two Philippine entrepreneurs have been using origami skills to woo cost-conscious lovers ahead of Valentine’s Day, offering bouquets of roses, sunflowers and lilies made of paper at a fraction of the price of real flowers. Savers seeking a novel way to impress that special someone see the …
Many people are saying see you later, chalky candies. Others will miss them. Roses are red, violets are blue, Sweethearts are gone, what will we do?! People are saying “C YA L8er” to the classic Valentine’s Day candy for the first time in the 153 years since it began production in 1866. …
“People are still going to go out and do their thing and have fun — maybe just in different ways. You can’t ban love.” ~OBAID MALIK, a businessman in Islamabad, Pakistan, where a court banned Valentine’s celebrations, deeming them “against the teachings of Islam” and a sign of growing Western …
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan has banned events marking Valentine’s Day, and media coverage of them, for the second year in a row after a court ruled the holiday un-Islamic. Men inflate heart shaped balloons ahead of Valentine’s day in Peshawar, Pakistan February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz The Pakistan …
Jacob Gemmell got ghosted last Valentine’s Day. But it wasn’t his girlfriend, Ammiel Mendoza, who disappeared: Gemmell says it was the couple’s server at Dirty Habit, a trendy, noirish restaurant inside Hotel Monaco in the District. The couple were sitting in a quiet room dining on a $75 prix-fixe menu. Though …
BANGKOK (AP) — Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Thai government is handing out pills it calls “very magical vitamins” to prospective mothers to boost the country’s falling birthrate. Government workers started distributing 1 million baht’s ($28,600) worth of prenatal vitamins Tuesday to women between the ages of 20 …
Valentine’s Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the origins of this festival of candy and cupids are actually dark, bloody — and a bit muddled. Though no one has pinpointed the exact origin of the holiday, one good place to start is ancient …
THAILAND’S military-led reconciliation talks, aimed at mending the country’s political divide ahead of elections next year, will start next week and last three months, the junta said on Thursday. The junta announced on Wednesday that the elections it had promised for this year would be postponed until 2018. It has …
The long journey of those special stems IF YOU come home to a vase full of roses on Valentine’s Day in Europe there will be a good chance they were picked a few days earlier on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya. The fertile Rift Valley soil, warm days …
(Reuters) – Bangkok city officials are urging young Thais to forgo sex on Valentine’s Day this weekend and visit temples instead, as a far better way to mark the day of love. Thailand has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Southeast Asia, public health officials say, and faces HIV …
A small group of gay rights activists gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Valentine’s Day to protest Russia’s antigay laws. Behind a rainbow banner that read “To Russia with Love,” a dozen activists cheered as three couples puckered up and kissed in front of a countdown clock for …
A scandal over Silvio Berlusconi‘s relationship with a teenage Moroccan girl took on legal and political overtones today when a senior police officer confirmed that the Italian prime minister‘s office had intervened on her behalf when she was detained on suspicion of theft, claiming she was the granddaughter of the …