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Leaping lizards on a Sunday afternoon
Roger Crutchley, Published on 10/03/2024
» Last Sunday I was sitting on the garden porch of my Bangkok abode grappling with the crossword and watching the birds hopping around the garden. My wife, who was away in Chaiyaphum, had just called and I had reassured her that everything was fine and very tranquil... a perfect Sunday afternoon.
Ukraine's Avdiivka empties in face of Russian assaults
AFP, Published on 27/11/2023
» AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: On a narrow asphalt strip scarcely visible late at night, a Ukrainian soldier sped along with his lights off at the wheel of a large armoured Humvee jeep.
Poland torn over Ukrainian refugees
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» In a rural village with fewer than 500 residents, strangers stand out. Even Anna Osinska, a 93-year-old villager with failing eyesight, noticed when people she did not recognise -- refugees from the war in Ukraine -- started appearing on the narrow street outside her kitchen window.
Bees can save elephants
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» It's a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers' fields, and tramples and eats crops. Sometimes farmers fight back, and elephants are killed.
Poster boys and girls near final straight
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/04/2023
» Try as you might you just cannot escape the forthcoming election with all those posters dangling from lampposts and the few remaining trees. The posters have been there for several months now and some are beginning to look a little the worse for wear, especially after this week's welcome rain in Bangkok. There is possibly nothing less appealing than a soggy political poster... apart from a soggy politician.
The curious case of the missing column
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 16/04/2023
» Many thanks to readers who expressed concern about the non-appearance of PostScript last Sunday. Some feared Crutch might have been under the weather or had even departed for the Great Typewriter in the Sky. Others thought I had fled the scene in a bid to escape Songkran, which in retrospect would not have been a bad idea.
'They took my grandson': Frontline Ukraine town evacuates children
AFP, Published on 05/04/2023
» AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: Kateryna's blue eyes fill with tears as she tells how police ordered her grandson to evacuate from the frontline town of Avdiivka in Ukraine, where she lives in a cellar.
Century on, political fights rage over Turkey's dogs
AFP, Published on 06/09/2022
» ISTANBUL - Ubiquitous and iconic, Istanbul's street dogs have been swept up in a political storm involving President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and an app that helped get them killed.
Plan doesn't rate
Oped, Postbag, Published on 09/07/2022
» Re: "Govt plans to charge foreigners more than Thais for hotel rooms", (BP, July 6).
A railway from the past
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022
» Astride century-old tracks that cut through the modern metropolis of Amman, a historic train blared a horn to announce its departure. That sound spurred families bearing bags of food, pots of coffee, coolers of soda, grills, hookahs and lots of children into action, scrambling up iron ladders to settle into the train's wooden cars.