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Suppressed culture makes bestseller
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023
» Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.
In Bali, warring sides cohabitate
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At a cafe nearly 100,000 kilometres from the front lines, the Kyiv-style cake sits near the kartoshkas, a Russian dessert made of cookies, condensed milk and butter.
Medical care, one ship at a time
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» Jeoung Byeong-deok remembered how a grateful old woman waited on the pier so she could wave goodbye when his ship pulled away from the island.
'White Lotus' actor would do it all again
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/12/2022
» Not long ago, venerable actor F Murray Abraham wanted to get lunch at a favourite restaurant in Greenwich Village. Unfortunately, the place was overrun by New York University students shooting a film.
Honour models for democracy
News, Editorial, Published on 18/12/2022
» Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as a major economic player in the Asia-Pacific region, with the distinction of being the only Southeast Asian economy to be included in the Group of 20.
Iranian fighters feel the squeeze
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» Sitting under an oak tree on a mountainside in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Mohammad Kurd said he recently fled neighbouring Iran after two friends were killed by security forces and the powerful Revolutionary Guard started going door to door to arrest anti-government protesters.
Grandparents embrace digital age
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» The 65-year-old woman crouches in a field and holds up a head of cabbage. Behind her, two friends sway back and forth, cucumber and radish in their hands. "This rotten cabbage, let's pull it out, eat it, achieve some foodie freedom," Guo Yifen, the woman with the cabbage, raps in a low and creaky voice in the song Spicy Hot Pot Real Rap.
German socialite financed own demise
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» Late in the summer of 1938, as the Nazis escalated their persecution of German Jews, Ilse Hesselberger and her daughter, Trudy, travelled from Munich to Milan to visit relatives.
Embalming, the dying science
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?
Inquiring minds
News, Published on 07/11/2022
» Re: "Casual dress allowed at college exams," (BP, Nov 5).