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Sapporo snow fest cancelled
Business, Kyodo News, Published on 15/12/2020
» SAPPORO: The annual Sapporo Snow Festival, one of Japan's biggest winter events held in the northernmost main island of Hokkaido around February, will be cancelled for the first time since its inception in 1950 amid a surge in novel coronavirus infections.
Ivory towers won't fall
News, Postbag, Published on 05/01/2018
» Re: "Let's ban ivory here", (PostBag, Jan 3).
Ivory ban can work
News, Postbag, Published on 07/01/2018
» I thank Paul Bromberg ("Ivory towers won't fall", PostBag, Jan 5) and 449900 ("Enforce ivory ban", PostBag, Jan 4) for underscoring my point about the need for effective enforcement of bans on ivory as a means toward reducing poaching of elephants.
Snow business in Korea
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 23/01/2020
» Darkness swiftly enveloped the orange sky after dusk. Yellow lights came on up and down the mountainside, illuminating the ski slopes. The temperature, which had been 2C in the afternoon, dropped to a bone-chilling -8C at night. The freezing weather discouraged me from leaving my warm room, but there were plenty of hardy souls out enjoying some late-night skiing.
Black and white reminiscences
Life, Chairat Chongvattanakij, Published on 05/02/2024
» Everybody in the room held their breath.
Ice cream with spirit
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 26/02/2021
» Fin Wine (Fabulous is Needed), Thailand's first purveyor of organic, biodynamic artisan wines have collaborated with Yora ice cream from pastry chef Saki Hoshino on limited edition flavours.
Artists reflect on snow
Life, Published on 21/12/2022
» Four artists have joined hands to present their impressions and interpretations of winter during "When Snowflakes Fall" at the RCB Photographers' Gallery 2, 2nd floor of River City Bangkok, Charoen Krung 24, until Jan 5.
UpScoop Melon Ice Cream
Published on 29/10/2024
» Smile Melon – Melon Growers Network in Ayudhaya Province Thailand. Over 500 cooperatives situated around historical scenic tourist biking and hiking routes with community centers. Growers sell 80% of output to retailers with 20% leftover that is made into juice and other melon products for sale.
White supremacists to rally outside White House a year after clash
AFP, Published on 12/08/2018
» WASHINGTON: White supremacists are set to rally outside the White House on Sunday, one year after torch-wielding neo-Nazis clashed with counter-demonstrators in a deadly protest that highlighted the growing boldness of the extreme right in the United States.
White bows pose no harm
Oped, Editorial, Published on 11/06/2020
» The police arrest of student activists for their white bows campaign was an unnecessary attempt to enforce the city's cleanliness law and could be seen as a veiled threat to freedom of expression.