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Tigers in trouble as Malaysian big cat numbers dwindle
AFP, Published on 23/10/2025
» KUALA LUMPUR - For two years, Malaysian conservationists tracked a tiger named “Bulan” as she raised four cubs. Then a fatal traffic accident made her another statistic in the country’s dwindling population.
The World’s Best Bar is in Hong Kong
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 09/10/2025
» HONG KONG — At The World’s 50 Best Bars 2025 award ceremony, held in Hong Kong last night, Bar Leone in Hong Kong ranked No.1 on list, making it the first bar in Asia to be awarded the title. It also took home the title of The Best Bar in Asia 2025.
Spacecoin joins IPX's global character universe, Line Friends
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/06/2025
» Spacecoin, a blockchain-based project aiming to build a decentralised internet through satellite networks, announced the introduction of a new character, "magnini", in collaboration with IPX (formerly Line Friends) and its supported project minicoin.
Thai police officer becomes the bee's knees
Roger Crutchley, Published on 20/04/2025
» The feel-good story this week involves a most unlikely hero, a Thai policeman. It is not often that the local gendarmerie are the subject of uplifting news, but that was the case in the Northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom when an alert policeman rescued a woman from a swarm of attacking bees.
Trump must learn from history's Arctic profiteers
Oped, Published on 18/04/2025
» The US president has not been subtle about his goals for the Arctic: "We'll go as far as we have to go" to acquire Greenland, he stated while sitting behind the Resolute desk in the Oval Office. The desk, made from the British Arctic exploring vessel called HMS Resolute, is itself a reminder of the northern voyages of empire builders -- the type of pursuit the president is after.
Handshake Speakeasy in Mexico City named the World’s Best Bar
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 24/10/2024
» The annual list of The World’s 50 Best Bars was unveiled on Tuesday in Madrid, Spain. In its 16th edition, the awards united the global bar community in recognition of the bartenders, bar owners and brands at the forefront of the international cocktail scene.
The time-telling dragon
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 26/01/2024
» Genus co-founder Sebastien Billieres has mechanically trained dragons to tell time.
Lonely sheep survives real cliffhanger
Roger Crutchley, Published on 12/11/2023
» Some rare good news last week was the rescue of the "world's loneliest sheep" from a rugged beach in northeastern Scotland. The sheep, a ewe named Fiona, had been stuck on the beach at the foot of a steep cliff in an isolated spot of the Moray Firth for the past two years without any woolly friends or non-woolly humans for company.
The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’: A glimpse of past greatness
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2023
» It is not a grand finale. It is a wistful postscript.
Love all animals, big or small
Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 02/10/2023
» It has been almost a century since Heinrich Zimmermann initiated World Animal Day. The writer and publisher of German magazine Mensch Und Hund (Man And Dog) organised the first celebration on March 24, 1925 in Berlin.