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35 minutes at a Trump campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa
News, AFP, Published on 02/02/2016
» "Turn to your neighbour and tell them why you're going to caucus for Donald Trump," one of the candidate's men instructs the hundreds of people gathered in an airport hangar in the Iowa city of Dubuque.
Portraits of misery beneath the surface
Spectrum, Published on 06/12/2015
» Fine, black dust blankets nearly everything in Tigyit. It settles on rooftops and blows inside homes, bringing with it a noxious odour that clings to clothes and skin. In the dry months, locals say, it coats their crops, causing them to fail.
Right qualifications, wrong colour skin
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 04/10/2015
» When Lyndsay Cabildo booked her ticket to Thailand in 2012, she had been promised 2,000 baht per day to work as a part-time English teacher supplying cover to schools around the country.
Putting traditional Chinese medicine to the test
News, Adam Minter, Published on 17/09/2015
» Toad skins and turtle shells aren't the cures most westerners turn to when they learn they've developed cancer. But in China, the market for traditional remedies like these grew 35% last year, twice as fast as the overall anti-cancer market. Though the effectiveness of these treatments is unproven, Western doctors, elite medical institutions and pharmaceutical companies are starting to put them to the scientific test.
Image of dead child on beach haunts, frustrates world
Associated Press, Published on 04/09/2015
» The photo of the dead three-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting.
With Asia's dating apps, love by numbers or chaperone
AFP, Published on 29/07/2015
» HONG KONG - Move over Tinder -- a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.
Keeping children safe from sexual predators
Spectrum, Published on 26/07/2015
» When the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency paid their first visit to Thailand’s Education Ministry earlier this year, they came with a warning: there are Brits out there who may be a risk to Thai children.
40 years after Vietnam War, north-south wounds fester
Associated Press, Published on 30/04/2015
» HO CHI MINH CITY – When Luu Dinh Trieu was drafted into the South Vietnamese army, he literally went to war against his father.
Despite fears, sunshine is essential for good health
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 28/04/2015
» In the summertime, many people shun the sun. Ladies apply thick sunscreen, wear shades and stay indoors to avoid as many rays from the sun as possible.
Bringing the Bible to Bangkok, the Mormons are here to stay
Spectrum, Richard S Ehrlich, Published on 26/04/2015
» Nearly 50 years after Mormons opened small churches in Thailand, converting Buddhists, animists and other Thais, they have announced plans to construct their first big temple here, enabling their families to be “sealed” together for eternity, posthumous weddings for dead ancestors and other “highest sacraments”.