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How two young reporters shook Myanmar
Reuters, Published on 09/08/2018
» YANGON: Late in the afternoon of Dec 12 last year, Wa Lone's cell phone rang. It was a man named Naing Lin, a lance corporal in Myanmar's 8th Security Police Battalion.
Costliest slices of the Big Mango
Business, Kanana Katharangsiporn, Published on 26/02/2018
» For your average Joe, 100,000 baht per square wah is no trifling sum for a piece of land. But for inner Bangkok, it's small change, as the area has set a record high of 3.17 million baht per sq wah for a 880-sq-wah plot on Lang Suan Road. (One wah equals two metres.)
'Not natural friends': Trump, Xi will be odd couple at first summit
Published on 05/04/2017
» WASHINGTON/BEIJING - When US President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, their summit will be marked not only by deep policy divisions but a clash of personalities between America’s brash “tweeter-in-chief” and Beijing’s cautious, calculating leader.
Private lives exposed as WikiLeaks spills secrets
Published on 23/08/2016
» CAIRO - WikiLeaks' global crusade to expose government secrets is causing collateral damage to the privacy of hundreds of innocent people, including survivors of sexual abuse, sick children and the mentally ill, The Associated Press has found.
Bringing a city back to life
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 29/05/2016
» When Marcus Westbury returned to his home town of Newcastle, Australia, in 2008, he found more than 150 empty buildings in two of the main streets.
A new danger is born as surrogacy moves to Cambodia
Spectrum, Published on 25/10/2015
» When Cambodia’s first fertility clinic opened its doors late last year, it was heralded as a medical milestone for a country where even the most basic health services are limited.
Children of the revolution
Spectrum, Published on 05/10/2014
» The ghosts of students killed in Tiananmen Square 25 years ago have joined the tens of thousands of people protesting in Hong Kong.
The needto fill the void
Spectrum, Published on 10/08/2014
» For foreign couples who are unable to conceive a child, Thailand offers the seemingly perfect package — a combination of low costs, relatively high quality medical care, and lax regulations on commercial surrogacy agreements.
Babies a click away, for clucky parents
Spectrum, Published on 10/08/2014
» For women offering their bodies for surrogacy, finding a customer is only a click away.
Playing fast and loose with the juice
Spectrum, Justin Heifetz, Published on 26/01/2014
» Aziz "Zyzz" Shavershian was once Australia's No.1 online bodybuilding celebrity. He emigrated with his parents from Russia to Australia at an early age, and quickly developed an online cult following after touting the healthy lifestyle that allowed for his impeccably muscular body _ good nutrition, good training and an admiration for Arnold Schwarzenegger.