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Blood and bruises: Welcome to Bangkok's real-life fight club
AFP, Published on 28/04/2022
» Harsh spotlights and street lamps illuminate a vicious brawl between two furious shirtless men as the screams of a crowd echo beneath a Bangkok underpass: Fight Club Thailand is on.
Diebedo Francis Kere becomes first African to win Pritzker architecture prize
AFP, Published on 15/03/2022
» NEW YORK: The Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award, was awarded Tuesday to Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere -- the first African to win the honor in its more than 40-year history.
Asian deer's comeback marks rare China conservation success
AFP, Published on 15/10/2021
» BEIJING: An Asian deer's comeback from the brink of extinction marks a rare success for China's conservation efforts, which have long faced criticism for focusing on only a handful of flagship species.
Squid Game: South Korea's latest cultural phenomenon
AFP, Published on 08/10/2021
» SEOUL: A dystopian vision of a polarised society, Netflix smash hit "Squid Game" blends a tight plot, social allegory and uncompromising violence to create the latest South Korean cultural phenomenon to go global.
Women's skateboarding soars in Brazil after Tokyo Olympics
AFP, Published on 23/09/2021
» SAO PAULO: When she saw 13-year-old Brazilian Rayssa Leal win silver in the first-ever street skateboarding competition at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Giovanna Alves Farias only had one wish: to start flying around a skate park herself.
Lee 'Scratch' Perry, reggae and dub wizard, dies at 85
AFP, Published on 30/08/2021
» NEW YORK: Lee "Scratch" Perry, the wildly influential Jamaican singer and producer who pushed the boundaries of reggae and shepherded dub, died Sunday. He was 85 years old.
Josephine Baker to be first Black woman in France's Pantheon
AFP, Published on 22/08/2021
» PARIS - Josephine Baker, the famed French-American dancer, singer and actress who fought in the French resistance during WWII and later battled racism, will become the first Black woman to enter France's Pantheon mausoleum.
Hong Kong mountaineer on a high after fastest Everest climb by a woman
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» KATHMANDU: Former Hong Kong schoolteacher Tsang Yin-hung said Sunday she always believed in aiming high after setting a new record for the fastest ascent of Everest by a woman.
Brazil's MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album
AFP, Published on 19/05/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years.
Largest art canvas sells for $62 million
AFP, Published on 24/03/2021
» DUBAI: Work by British artist Sacha Jafri consisting of the world's largest painting on canvas has been sold for $62 million at an auction in Dubai, organisers said on Tuesday.