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Life after sumo: retired wrestlers fight for new careers
AFP, Published on 29/04/2022
» KYOTO (JAPAN) - When Japanese sumo wrestler Takuya Saito retired from the sport at 32 and began jobhunting, he had no professional experience and didn't even know how to use a computer.
Thai sway on Paris more than food
News, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 23/11/2021
» It is almost impossible to convince the French that there are other cuisines in the whole wide world better than theirs. But in recent years, Thai cuisine has made great leaps in the gastronomy-loving country. Thai street food is booming, especially now that food trucks offering five-spice braised hog leg, pad thai and green curry are in vogue.
Cops arrest madam at gay sex shop
News, Published on 23/07/2020
» CHIANG MAI: Police have arrested a madam on charges of running a brothel under the guise of a massage shop that caters to homosexual men in downtown Muang district. Two young masseurs were caught in a sting operation on Tuesday night.
A glimmer of hope in dark times
News, Published on 23/02/2020
» The recent wave of shootings and constant fear over the coronavirus recalls what Claudius said in Hamlet: "When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions". And these "battalions" of sorrow have been plunging Thais into deep depression.
Flying right
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 31/01/2020
» Turkish Airlines, the national carrier of Turkey, has recently launched its flagship business-class lounge that should place it among the best airline lounges in the world.
Football team of masseurs casts spotlight on China's blind
AFP, Published on 23/08/2019
» NANTONG (CHINA) - On a sweltering day in eastern China a squad of footballers wearing blindfolds hurtles after a ringing ball, occasionally clattering painfully into each other.
A senior moment
Life, Arusa Pisuthipan, Published on 04/02/2015
» In the first of a series delving into the work of people often overlooked, Life follows a caregiver at a home for the elderly, hearing her thoughts on a country verging on becoming an ageing society, and what actions need to be taken to ensure the aged are not forgotten.
It would have been tough to beat me, says Martin
AFP, Published on 27/07/2014
» PéRIGUEUX (FRANCE) - Tony Martin said he would have been tough to beat even if the best timetriallers in the world had been at the Tour de France on Saturday.
Keep up censorship fight, urges Chinese filmmaker
AFP, Published on 02/03/2013
» Chinese filmmakers must fight censorship even if it means removing their name from their own work, one-time banned Chinese director Lou Ye told AFP in an interview ahead of this month's Asian Film Awards in which his crime thriller "Mystery" has been nominated in six categories.