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AFP, Published on 02/03/2020
» Bangkok's future hangs in the balance.
AFP, Published on 30/06/2019
» SEOUL: Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un could shake hands in the Demilitarised Zone that divides the Korean peninsula on Sunday if the North's leader takes up the US president's surprise offer to meet.
AFP, Published on 06/03/2019
» LONDON: A timeworn laboratory in Britain's Royal Botanic Gardens may not seem like the obvious epicentre of efforts to halt international illegal logging.
AFP, Published on 02/01/2019
» PHNOM PENH: Bopha should be in school but instead toils seven days a week in a searing brick kiln on the outskirts of Phnom Penh -- a 14-year-old trapped in debt bondage in a boom industry preying on the poverty of Cambodia's farmers.
AFP, Published on 11/12/2018
» PHNOM PENH: Everyone did well from Nary's marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little prospect of seeing her son again.
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» NAKHON PATHOM: Wearied by the creative constrictions of junta-run Thailand, Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is making his next feature in Colombia with Tilda Swinton, but promises to bring his key themes -- ghosts, memory and politics -- with him.
AFP, Published on 01/11/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: Leaning back in his chair and admitting he is feeling every one of his 93 years, the world's oldest leader Mahathir Mohamad says his second stint as Malaysian premier is taking its toll as he grapples with everything from fending off China to paying down a mammoth national debt.
AFP, Published on 28/06/2018
» CHICAGO: Ariya Jutanugarn chases her second consecutive major title and the world number-one ranking when the Women's PGA Championship begins Thursday at Kemper Lakes in suburban Chicago.
AFP, Published on 18/05/2018
» DANAI, Myanmar: Seng Moon grabbed her day-old baby and fled into the thick jungle, joining thousands of villagers escaping fighting between ethnic Kachin rebels and Myanmar's army, now reinforced by a unit notorious for its brutal "clearance" operations.
AFP, Published on 10/05/2018
» KUALA LUMPUR: At the age of 92 Malaysia's former strongman leader Mahathir Mohamed is poised to become the world's oldest prime minister after a stunning election victory against scandal-haunted leader Najib Razak.