‘THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA’ SINGER ASTRUD GILBERTO, PABLO PICASSO’S FORMER LOVER FRANÇOISE GILOT PASS AWAY THIS WEEK

MACAU’S MPAY, PHILIPPINES’ GCASH AND HELLOMONEY AMONG 14 E-WALLETS FROM 9 COUNTRIES AND REGIONS NOW ABLE TO MAKE PAYMENTS IN HONG KONG THROUGH ALIPAY+

Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer-songwriter Astrud Gilberto, famous for singing “The Girl from Ipanema”, died at the age of 83 in the US on 5 June, just a day before French painter Françoise Gaime Gilot – former lover of the late Spanish painter Pablo Picasso – passed away, also in the US. Gilot was 101 years old.

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