A Danish TV station said it has chosen an Iraqi-born woman as winner of the Miss Headscarf 2008 competition.
Judges picked 18-year-old Huda Falah from photographs of 46 contestants in an Internet-based pageant. The pageant was organized by public broadcaster DR1’s teenage show. One of the judges said Falah was chosen because the light blue Islamic headscarf was qa fantastic and shocking color.”
Denmark has been subject to a lot of debate related to Islam. Controversial comics of the Prophet Muhammad were published in Danish newspapers in 2006. The comics led to violent protests.
Earlier this month there was a bombing outside the Danish Embassy in Pakistan. The terrorist group al-Qaeda said they carried out the bombing because the comics were reprinted earlier this year.
Falah, who is studying to become a social worker, moved to Denmark with her family in 1997. She started wearing a headscarf at age nine.
She said she hopes the contest will help remove barriers between young Muslims and Danes. (STAFF WRITER, WITH AP)
丹麥一家電視台表示,一位在伊拉克出生的女子獲選該台舉辦的二OO八頭巾小姐比賽冠軍。
丹麥公共電視台DR1的一個青少年節目舉辦了這場網路選美比賽,評審從四十六位參賽佳麗的照片中,挑選出十八歲的冠軍胡妲.法拉。其中一位評審表示,法拉穿戴的那條「漂亮又色彩鮮豔的」淺藍色伊斯蘭教頭巾是她獲勝的主因。
有關伊斯蘭教的問題在丹麥一直飽受爭議;二OO六年丹麥報紙刊登了數幅以伊斯蘭教先知穆罕默德為主角的爭議性漫畫,這些漫畫引發了一連串激烈的抗議行動。
本月稍早,巴基斯坦的丹麥大使館外發生一起炸彈攻擊事件。蓋達恐怖組織表示他們是為了報復今年年初丹麥媒體再次刊登這些漫畫而發動炸彈攻擊。
目前就讀社工科系的法拉一九九七年舉家搬遷到丹麥,她從九歲起就開始頭戴頭巾。
她表示,希望這個比賽能消除年輕穆斯林和丹麥年輕人間的隔閡。(美聯社�翻譯:袁星塵)
A: Wow, three Taiwanese restaurants just won the 2024 “Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants” awards. B: Awesome! Which three restaurants? A: Taipei’s Logy at No. 22 and MUME at No. 34, and Taichung’s JL Studio at No. 33. B: Actually, there are many more great establishments in Taipei. How about other Asian cities? A: Singapore claimed nine spots this year, making it Asia’s new “food capital.” A: 2024「亞洲50最佳餐廳」名單揭曉了,台灣有3家餐廳上榜。 B: 好厲害,哪3家? A: 台北的Logy和MUME分獲第22和34名,台中的JL Studio獲第33名! B: 其實台北還有很多好餐廳,那其他的亞洲城市呢? A: 新加坡今年入選9家,可說是亞洲美食之都。 (By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times/台北時報張聖恩)
Let’s explore another delicacy primarily known to Tainan locals: floating milkfish in thick soup. Despite its peculiar name, this dish is another Tainan specialty that showcases the popularity of milkfish, which is made into fish paste and served in thick soup. Unlike the version with tutuo fish, which also adds other ingredients to its thick soup, the floating milkfish version primarily features the “floating fish” itself in its thick soup, ensuring that the fish paste remains the star of the dish. 讓我們來探索另一道台南人熟悉的美食:浮水魚羹。這道菜名奇特的美食,再再展現了台南虱目魚料理的多樣。浮水魚羹是用虱目魚漿做成的羹品,雖然和𩵚魠魚羹一樣是羹湯,但不像𩵚魠魚羹會在湯中加入其他食材,而是讓虱目魚漿成為這道料理的主角。 peculiar (adj.) 獨特的;古怪的 The belly of a milkfish is considered the most
The practice of freezing embryos as part of in vitro fertilization (IVF) was thrown into chaos in Alabama this year, when the state supreme court ruled that such embryos should be considered children, exposing clinics to wrongful death claims in the event they are destroyed in the thawing process. In 2021, more than 80 percent of US IVF procedures involved the transfer of frozen embryos, according to a recent report by the US Department of Health and Human Services. HOW IS EMBRYO FREEZING USED IN IVF? IVF uses high doses of hormones to stimulate ovaries to produce as many eggs as possible. Once
A situation puzzle is a game in which one person describes a scenario and asks the players to explain it. The situation is deliberately lacking in details, but the players may acquire more information by asking questions — however, these can only be answered with “yes” or “no.” A player wins by describing the approximate events that led up to the situation. To do so, they must use a blend of logical and lateral thinking. A famous example of this is sometimes known as “Turtle Soup.” Here’s the riddle: “A man in a restaurant orders turtle soup, tastes it