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Fujimori's Peru and the price of neoliberal success
Oped, Published on 10/10/2024
» The script of Latin American politics too often reads like a "dictator novel," and on Sept 11, another chapter drew to a close with the death of Alberto Fujimori. As the president who most defined -- and divided -- modern Peru, his legacy remains a topic of heated debate. One version of Fujimori's epitaph would commend his economics and condemn his politics, but the deeper lesson his life story offers may be that it is impossible to separate the two.
Astronaut, 'Earthrise' photographer, dies in plane crash
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/06/2024
» WASHINGTON - William Anders, the US astronaut whose "Earthrise" photograph from lunar orbit captured humanity's humble place in the cosmos, punctuating the 1960s' race to the moon with one of the most recognised images of the 20th century, has died. He was 90.
Former China leader Jiang Zemin dead
Published on 30/11/2022
» China's former leader Jiang Zemin, who steered the country through a transformational era from the late 1980s and into the new millennium, died Wednesday at the age of 96, China's state news agency said.
AI 'making dozens of news content farms'
Business, Published on 02/05/2023
» NEW YORK: Dozens of news websites generated by AI chatbots are proliferating online, according to a new report by the news-rating group NewsGuard, raising questions about how the technology may supercharge established fraud techniques.
2020: Sport battles through a year like no other
Sports, Nobby Piles, Published on 26/12/2020
» Sport has experienced some difficult times over the years, but nothing has created so much havoc in the world's sporting calendar as the Covid-19 virus. No sport escaped the wrath of the pandemic. Little did we know back in March that the disruption would go on for so long and take such a toll.
Born to be an adventurer
Life, Published on 05/07/2021
» The depths of the sea is dark and impenetrable but Robert Ballard feels comfortable in this space, which has no bounds.
Many gates, no bars
Oped, Postbag, Published on 10/02/2018
» Let’s see now. First there was watchgate, then we had copgate and now we have poachgate. Will the gates ever stop? No. Because this is amazing Thailand and we all know the elites don’t do jail time.