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Lacing Up a Global Trend: Sneaker Soles Reflect Teenage Souls
Monday, 12 May 2008
By Maria Cury and Kenza Moller
FLORIDA, US and SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – It doesn't take a mile-long walk in Angela Thompson's shoes to learn who she is; simply looking at them will do. "It shows the story about my life," said Thompson, a high school sophomore from Orlando, Florida. "Basically who I like, stuff like that."
Thompson's sneakers, a faded pair of black Converse low-tops, have more than the typical signs of wear and tear. Scribbled in black ink are the names of her boyfriend and favorite bands. As personalized as Thompson’s shoes may be, they also represent a fashion trend among teenagers: expressing the soul on the soles of one's shoes.
Lunar New Year: Forget the Valentine's Roses. Give them Rats!
Monday, 10 March 2008
By Long Nguyen and Thuy Nguyen
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – “Be good, or you won't receive any presents,” Christian parents warn their excited children as Christmas nears. But before stepping into a new year in Vietnam, this advice is given to everyone, kids and adults.
According to legend, a woman and two men who were in a painful threesome affair leaped into a flaming cooking fire. They became the genies known in Vietnamese as Táo; their statues, displayed prominently in every household’s kitchen, are believed to guard the kitchen and the happiness of every family.
Book Review: Anatomy of a Boyfriend by Daria Snadowsky
Thursday, 14 February 2008
PEARL Reporters Alannah Abrams (US), Reguli Granger (US), Kenza Moller (Dominican Republic) and Lorna Nickson-Brown (UK) read Daria Snadowsky's Anatomy of a Boyfriend, and compared the story and message of the book.
'Sex education is a lot less dangerous to teens than its absence'
Thursday, 14 February 2008
PEARL Reporter Lorna Nickson-Brown (UK) interviewed Daria Snadowsky via e-mail about her debut novel, Anatomy of a Boyfriend
How far is Anatomy of a Boyfriend based on your own teenage experiences/relationships?
Although the page-to-page plot of Anatomy of a Boyfriend is fiction, I've personally experienced every emotional high and low Dom endures throughout the course of her relationship with Wes, and I don't think I could have written a word of the book had I not "been there" myself. When you're in a relationship with someone you care for and it's going great, there's nothing better. And when someone you care for stops caring for you, there's not much worse.
Teenagers Criticize Lack of Sex Education in Vietnam
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
By Thuy Nguyen
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam – Vietnam has one of the highest abortion rates in the world and 30 percent of the estimated 500,000 procedures performed there each year are performed on teenagers, according to the latest statistics from the Vietnamese Committee for Population, Family and Children. The committee also found that 28.8 percent of Vietnamese teenagers don’t know how to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases. Half of the HIV infections in Vietnam involve people under 25.
Vietnamese teenagers said their lack of knowledge about sexual behavior and reproductive health stems from a societal reticence that is similar in other developing Asian nations.
Features
By Long Nguyen and Thuy Nguyen
PEARL Reporter Lorna Nickson-Brown (UK) interviewed Daria Snadowsky via e-mail about her debut novel, Anatomy of a Boyfriend
By Thuy Nguyen
