De 54-jarige actrice overleed zaterdagavond 24 februari tijdens een bezoek aan Dubai. Ze was daar voor een bruiloft. Er gaan meerdere verhalen over de doodsoorzaak van de Indiase filmlegende Sridevi Kapoor. Haar zwager zei dat een hartaanval haar fataal werd, maar volgens de politie van Dubai is ze in het bad van haar hotelkamer is verdronken. Subramanian Swamy, leider van de Bharatiya Janata Party, vraagt zich af hoe het kan dat Kapoor, die volgens hem nooit drank gebruikte, toch met alcoholsporen in haar systeem gevonden werd. Het onderzoek door de politie werd dinsdag afgesloten, maar volgens Swamy zijn er vragen onbeantwoord gebleven. Volgens hem is de actrice dan ook vermoord. Sridevi was een pionier in de Indiase filmindustrie. Ze werd gezien als de eerste vrouwelijke superster in het door mannen gedomineerde Bollywood. Photo by lauraleedooley on Foter.com / CC BY
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]]>De 54-jarige actrice overleed zaterdagavond 24 februari tijdens een bezoek aan Dubai. Ze was daar voor een bruiloft.
Er gaan meerdere verhalen over de doodsoorzaak van de Indiase filmlegende Sridevi Kapoor. Haar zwager zei dat een hartaanval haar fataal werd, maar volgens de politie van Dubai is ze in het bad van haar hotelkamer is verdronken.
Subramanian Swamy, leider van de Bharatiya Janata Party, vraagt zich af hoe het kan dat Kapoor, die volgens hem nooit drank gebruikte, toch met alcoholsporen in haar systeem gevonden werd. Het onderzoek door de politie werd dinsdag afgesloten, maar volgens Swamy zijn er vragen onbeantwoord gebleven. Volgens hem is de actrice dan ook vermoord.
Sridevi was een pionier in de Indiase filmindustrie. Ze werd gezien als de eerste vrouwelijke superster in het door mannen gedomineerde Bollywood.
Photo by lauraleedooley on Foter.com / CC BY
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]]>China’s ultra-rich are growing in number and in wealth and are sending billions of dollars out of the country. Much of it is landing up in the U.S. where many children of the wealthy elite are sent to get an American college education and they’re living large. Vocativ found a sub-culture of these Chinese students in California. They drive luxury cars like Maseratis and Ferraris and flaunt their wealth at discreet private parties and in online groups, like “Super Cars in America”. Fuerdai (Chinese: 富二代; pinyin: Fù’èrdài) is a Chinese term that means “the second generation of the rich”. Fuerdai are sons and daughters of the Chinese nouveau riche of the early years of China’s reform era. During the new era, in which private initiative could be rewarded by wealth, many new rich Chinese emerged in the former-socialist Chinese society. While such wealthy individuals reached their new socioeconomic position through their own initiative and efforts, their children often enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and have a much easier and obstacle-free life path. fuerdai, are the object of rapt attention in national media and a mixture of envy and revulsion among ordinary folk. In June Xi Jinping, China’s president, told a government [...]
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]]>China’s ultra-rich are growing in number and in wealth and are sending billions of dollars out of the country. Much of it is landing up in the U.S. where many children of the wealthy elite are sent to get an American college education and they’re living large. Vocativ found a sub-culture of these Chinese students in California. They drive luxury cars like Maseratis and Ferraris and flaunt their wealth at discreet private parties and in online groups, like “Super Cars in America”.
Fuerdai (Chinese: 富二代; pinyin: Fù’èrdài) is a Chinese term that means “the second generation of the rich”.
Fuerdai are sons and daughters of the Chinese nouveau riche of the early years of China’s reform era. During the new era, in which private initiative could be rewarded by wealth, many new rich Chinese emerged in the former-socialist Chinese society. While such wealthy individuals reached their new socioeconomic position through their own initiative and efforts, their children often enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and have a much easier and obstacle-free life path. fuerdai, are the object of rapt attention in national media and a mixture of envy and revulsion among ordinary folk.
In June Xi Jinping, China’s president, told a government meeting that China’s young rich must curb their hedonistic ways. They should be guided, he said, “to think about where their wealth comes from” and be patriotic, law-abiding and hard-working. A week after his remarks were made public, state media reported on a training session in the prosperous coastal province of Fujian for 70 offspring of billionaires, where they were taught “traditional Chinese culture, social responsibility and business knowledge” and fined 1,000 yuan if they turned up late.
Fuerdai: instagram.com/explore/tags/fuerdai/
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]]>Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom’s height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day. The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a main draw for the country’s nascent tourism industry. It is seen by many as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Photo credit: philborg / Foter / CC BY
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]]>Bagan is an ancient city located in the Mandalay Region of Burma (Myanmar). From the 9th to 13th centuries, the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Pagan, the first kingdom to unify the regions that would later constitute modern Myanmar. During the kingdom’s height between the 11th and 13th centuries, over 10,000 Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries were constructed in the Bagan plains alone, of which the remains of over 2200 temples and pagodas still survive to the present day.
The Bagan Archaeological Zone is a main draw for the country’s nascent tourism industry. It is seen by many as equal in attraction to Angkor Wat in Cambodia.
Photo credit: philborg / Foter / CC BY
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