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Paradise found
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/01/2018
» Alongkorn Thiamjun holds a small paintbrush in his right hand and rests it on a support stick. Fastidiously he dips colours onto a vast mural in the prayer hall of Wat Suthat Thepwararam, a royal temple near the iconic Giant Swing. Originally painted in the 1840s during the reign of King Rama III, the murals at Wat Suthat are the largest in the country, and they depict expansive and mystical legends with unrivalled exquisiteness.
Period pain: India tackles menstruation taboos
Asia focus, Published on 05/02/2018
» Sumitra Devi, 29, becomes bashful when she has to talk about menstruation.
How to get rich
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/02/2018
» During the Great Depression in the Big Apple, one of the games we played was choosing our role model among the comic strip heroes we all read. Dick Tracy, Superman and Batman got most voted. They scoffed when I picked Daddy Warbucks, the billionaire who adopted Little Orphan Annie. (“Yeah, how many bad men did he catch?”)
In illiberal societies, a wider #MeToo movement
News, John Lloyd, Published on 13/02/2018
» In China, women calling themselves the "silence breakers" have demanded investigations into allegations of sexual harassment. In doing so, they pit themselves against a macho culture, a Communist Party deeply allergic to independent citizens' initiatives, and an exaggerated and assiduously cultivated respect for hierarchies, themselves male-dominated.
Corporations key to rescuing nature, says WWF chief
AFP, Published on 25/02/2018
» PARIS - A generation ago, the idea of a veteran international banker leading a global organisation charged with saving the planet's dwindling and besieged wildlife would have seemed far-fetched.
Canada urged to walk away from NAFTA talks over US steel tariffs
AFP, Published on 03/03/2018
» OTTAWA - The largest private sector union in Canada on Friday called on this country to walk away from continental trade talks in protest if Washington slaps tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.
11 Pacific trade pact countries go it alone without US
AFP, Published on 06/03/2018
» SANTIAGO - A year after an abrupt US withdrawal left a fledgling 12-nation Pacific trade pact for dead, the 11 remaining states will sign a re-vamped deal Thursday aimed at slashing tariffs.
Without US, 11 Asia-Pacific states sign trade deal
AFP, Published on 09/03/2018
» SANTIAGO - Eleven nations signed a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement Thursday, moving to lower tariffs just as US President Donald Trump seeks to raise them after withdrawing from the deal.
Without US, 11 nations sign new TPP pact
AFP, Published on 09/03/2018
» SANTIAGO: Eleven nations signed a slimmed-down version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement on Thursday, moving to lower tariffs just as US President Donald Trump seeks to raise them after withdrawing from the deal.
CIA nominee to explain role in Thailand 'torture programme'
Associated Press, Published on 05/04/2018
» WASHINGTON: - President Donald Trump's nominee to be CIA director will fully explain what her role was - and what it wasn't - in the agency's use of harsh interrogation practices on terror suspects after 9/11, the top US intelligence chief said Wednesday.