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Tourist map expands to Doi Kloselo
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 08/01/2023
» Doi Kloselo in Mae Hong Son's Sop Moei district will be developed into a tourist attraction in what is seen as a move from locals to oppose the planned construction of a hydropower dam in the Salween River, locals say.
Loyalty doubts splinter liberated town
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» When Myroslava, a 36-year-old construction manager, returned to her hometown of Sviatohirsk in eastern Ukraine last month, she expected to find her house destroyed by shelling.
Turkish doctor on 'terror' trial over chemical arms comment
AFP, Published on 24/12/2022
» ISTANBUL - The head of Turkey's main medical union went on trial Friday on "terror" charges linked to her calls for a probe into the army's alleged use of chemical weapons against Kurdish fighters in Iraq.
Finding new use for bomb shelters
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 27/11/2022
» Visitors to Keelung, a mountainous port city on Taiwan's northern coast, might reasonably think that the white wall at the back of Shi Hui-hua's breakfast shop is, well, a wall. Only a few air vents suggest that there might be something on the other side.
Cave yields Neanderthals find
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/11/2022
» Analysing fossils from a cave in Russia, scientists have found the first known Neanderthal family: a father, his teenage daughter and others who were probably close cousins.
Palestinians seek shelter in caves
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 13/11/2022
» Faced with expulsion from their villages and the demolition of their homes by Israeli authorities, hundreds of Palestinians are trying to stay by reverting to an older form of shelter: living in underground caves.
Xi and top officials pay homage to Mao
Published on 29/10/2022
» BEIJING: Dressed in matching navy windbreakers and flanking President Xi Jinping, China’s freshly appointed top leadership this week made their first group outing to the Communist Party’s “holy land”.
Painter Pierre Soulages, French master of black, dies at 102
AFP, Published on 26/10/2022
» PARIS - French abstract artist Pierre Soulages, who has died aged 102, was the Henry Ford of painting: for him there was just one colour, black, and he spent a lifetime exploring the light within it.
A daring mission
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 12/10/2022
» This year seems to be one of clarification for those still curious about what happened during the gruelling rescue operation of a lost soccer team at Tham Luang Cave four years ago. There have been plenty of movies and documentaries covering this topic, from Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's The Rescue and Ron Howard's thrilling drama Thirteen Lives to Emmy-winner Pailin Wedel's upcoming documentary The Trapped 13: How We Survived The Thai Cave.
'Our home': Lesotho's last cave dwellers
Published on 11/10/2022
» KOME, Lesotho: Inside a dimly-lit mud dwelling nestled within a rocky mountain in the southern African kingdom of Lesotho, Mamotonosi Ntefane, 67, dusts off an animal skin.