STARCOM PAKISTAN announces itself at the 18th Dragons of Asia Awards by clinching SIX awards

The winners of the 2018 Dragons of Asia awards have been announced at the Gala Awards Event at the TGV Cinema Complex in Kuala Lumpur.Starcom Pakistan has won six Dragon awards including best brand building and awareness campaign.Starcom thanks its clients for having high expectations from them and congratulates its team in exceeding them.Award details areRED DRAGON2018 Best Campaign...

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Daraz brings the world’s biggest sale day- Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival – to Pakistan

Daraz is set to join Alibaba’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival for the first time.The event, which was introduced by parent company and ecommerce giant Alibaba 10 years ago, is now the world’s biggest sale day and is set to drive Pakistan into a new era of online shopping.The GyaraGyara Sale will kick off on the midnight of November 11 and last 24 hours, featuring discounts of...

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Canada asks world to stop sending mail

OTTAWA: Canada’s postal service has issued a plea for the rest of the world to stop sending in mail as its striking workers rejected the latest contract offer.Canada Post, facing a huge delivery backlog as the labor unrest looked set to enter a fifth week, recently sweetened its offer to staff in a last-ditch effort to bring the rotating strikes to an end.This followed a warning...

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Rare Sumatran tiger rescued from beneath shop in Indonesia

BURUNG ISLAND, Indonesia: A rare Sumatran tiger that was trapped beneath the floor of a shop for three days has been rescued, an Indonesian official said Saturday.The three-year old male was freed from the 75 centimetre (30 inch) crawl space on Burung Island in Riau province, the local conservation agency said.“After the tiger was successfully put to sleep we opened up part of...

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Australian dies of cardiac arrest after ‘stingray attack’

SYDNEY: A swimmer died after a rare suspected stingray attack off an Australian beach while another two people were mauled in separate shark encounters this weekend.The 42-year-old’s death came more than a decade after world-renowned “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming on the famed Great Barrier Reef.The man was...

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Taiwanese puppet master fights to save dying art

At 87 years old, Taiwanese glove puppeteer Chen Hsi-huang is the star of a new documentary which reflects his determination to revive the dying traditional craft and a late-life renaissance as a high-profile promoter of the art form.The film, entitled “Father”, tells the story of how Chen pursued the craft in the shadow of his father, the legendary puppeteer Li Tian-lu, who drew...

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David Hockney pool painting soars to $90 mln, record for living artist

NEW YORK:  An iconic 1972 painting by British artist David Hockney soared to $90.3 million at Christie’s on Thursday, smashing the record for the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by a living artist.With Christie’s commission, “Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures),” surpassed the auction house’s pre-sale estimate of about $80 million, following a bidding...

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