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Sad tale of a sycamore and a chainsaw
Roger Crutchley, Published on 08/10/2023
» Every now and again there is a news story that leaves you scratching your head prompting the question "What were they thinking?" That was my reaction on reading of the destruction by vandals of an iconic sycamore tree in the northern England county of Northumberland.
5 buffaloes hit, killed by lorry
Manit Sanubboon, Published on 26/12/2021
» PRACHIN BURI: A six-wheel lorry taking workers to an industrial estate ploughed into a herd of buffalo on a road in Si Mahaphot district on Sunday morning, killing five of them, police said.
Journey to the afterlife: Indonesia's Toraja live among the dead
AFP, Published on 09/11/2018
» LA'BO, Indonesia: Martha Kande's family lived with her greying, shrivelled corpse at their home in Indonesia for seven months, as they prepared an elaborate funeral that is central to the Toraja people's centuries-old death rituals.
Villagers vaccinated after eating rabies-infected buffalo
Nopparat Kingkaew, Published on 14/08/2018
» SURIN: Health officials are vaccinating about 188 people who consumed meat from a buffalo that died of unknown causes and was later found to be infected with the rabies.
Erdogan takes 'crazy projects' to new level with Canal Istanbul dream
AFP, Published on 15/06/2018
» KARABURUN (TURKEY) - The waves of the Black Sea lap peacefully on the shore of the Turkish coastal village of Karaburun outside Istanbul. Not far away, water buffalo peacefully graze on green pastures.
Sa Kaeo buffalo outbreak 'under control'
Published on 19/11/2016
» SA KAEO - Local livestock authorities have already controlled a buffalo outbreak after identifying the disease as haemorrhagic septicemia, a key economic disease among cattle.
Tiger Temple faces axe
News, Piyarat Chongcharoen, Published on 06/06/2016
» Kanchanaburi: The Tiger Temple faces possible closure after fresh charges of forest encroachment involving almost 1,000 rai of land and eviction for misuse of granted land.
Myanmar counts cost of flood disaster
Published on 28/08/2015
» Recent monsoonal floods and landslides have taken a dreadful human toll, leaving at least 117 dead and 1.6 million people displaced, in 12 states and regions across Myanmar.
FBI confirms death of top militant in Philippine raid
AFP, Published on 02/04/2015
» MANILA - The FBI confirmed on Thursday that a senior Malaysian militant with a $5-million reward on his head was killed in a January raid in the Philippines that also left 44 police commandos dead.
Evocative hymn to Thai rice
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 23/01/2015
» This is the film you simply have to see this weekend. Uruphong Raksasad's Pleng Khong Kao (The Songs Of Rice) is a lyrical poetry of image and sound, as beautiful as 19th-century pastoral paintings and as evocative as murmured hymns. In a compact 75 minutes, we see muddied beasts stomping the paddies and whirring tractors aglow with nocturnal eyes; we hear the chanting for the Rice Goddess and rhythmic windpipe numbers for the harvest dance. We even marvel, unlikely as it seems, at a zonk-out sci-fi rendition of a northeastern rocket festival, ablaze with fire and sparks and songs and joy.