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Special Olympics brings 2,300 athletes to S. Korea
AFP, Published on 28/01/2013
» About 2,300 mentally disabled athletes have gathered in the South Korean ski resort of Pyeongchang for the 2013 Special Winter Olympics, with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi to attend Tuesday's opening ceremony.
Signs of change as tv newsman 'Talks' to deaf
Spectrum, Published on 27/01/2013
» Bo Bo Kyaing and his colleagues at the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) are having an animated discussion at a Chiang Mai eatery. Bo Bo, deaf since he was a teenager, is using sign language, while a few of his colleagues who are not well-versed in using it, pretend to respond in kind.
Intruder slept with mentally ill woman
Online Reporters, Published on 10/12/2012
» LAMPANG - A man sneaked into a stranger's house and was caught lying on a bed with a mentally disabled woman, police said on Monday.
Trials and Triumph
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 21/09/2012
» The sport sounds obscure, but the man who's achieved unlikely glory in it is relishing a rare chance to be in the spotlight _ and to talk about it despite the physical difficulty of doing so.
Changebook
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 17/08/2012
» While we here at Guru mostly use Facebook to look at sexy pictures of hot strangers, and access Twitter to follow Lady Gaga, many social-conscious organisations and individuals have tapped into the power of social media to promote their causes and invite people to join their activities.
Dead child walking
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 22/07/2012
» Just returned from a visit to Bangkok's notorious Bang Kwang prison, Toshi Kazama is ready to talk about criminal justice. On a rainy evening at the Foreign Correspondents' Club last week, the Japanese-born photographer shows slides of his photographs of juvenile offenders and speaks about the complexities of capital punishment. He has been photographing young people on death row since 1996, mostly in the US, where he has lived since the age of 15, and more recently across Asia.
NATO admits Afghan children killed in Kapisa
AFP, Published on 13/02/2012
» The US-led NATO force in Afghanistan on Monday conceded that several children died during a bombing raid last week in the northeast province where French troops are based.
NATO airstrike killed eight children: Karzai
AFP, Published on 10/02/2012
» A NATO airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan's Kapisa province northeast of the capital Kabul, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.
You can't make this stuff up: Top odd news of 2011
News, Noel Boivin, Published on 01/01/2012
» Thai politicians are usually out of office before the plastic comes off their name plates and fluctuating water levels tested all of our nerves last year, but there is one dependable constant in the kingdom _ the country's undisputed title as the weird news capital of the world.