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Taliban shuts down landline internet to curb ‘immorality’
Reuters, Published on 23/09/2025
» KABUL - In a dim home used as a small business in Afghanistan, women bent over bright cloth use needles to form intricate embroidery. But their fibre-optic network in Kandahar — their primary link to buyers — has now gone dark.
Hong Kongers find new ways to defend democratic ideals
AFP, Published on 09/05/2023
» HONG KONG - Two years after being released from a Hong Kong prison, Lau Ka-tung has lost count of the times he has returned -- not as an inmate, but to offer support to pro-democracy activists in jail.
Americans seek cheaper dentistry in Mexico's 'Molar City'
AFP, Published on 21/04/2023
» LOS ALGODONES (MEXICO) - Hundreds of thousands of Americans travel across the Mexican border every year to the tiny town of Los Algodones, in search not of sun and sand, but root canals and veneers.
Hun Sen giving out pricey watches at Asean summit
Reuters, Published on 10/11/2022
» PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, an aficionado of luxury watches, will hand out intricate, locally made timepieces as souvenirs for world leaders at the Asean summit this week.
Chile's last Yaghan speaker dies aged 93
AFP, Published on 17/02/2022
» SANTIAGO - Cristina Calderon, the last native speaker of Chile's indigenous Yaghan language, has died at the age of 93, her family said Wednesday, in a blow for a dwindling culture at South America's extreme southern tip.
Tragic yarn: India-China border spat hits global cashmere production
AFP, Published on 09/06/2020
» SRINAGAR, India: The world is heading for a shortage of the highly prized and super-soft cashmere wool as pashmina goats that live on the "roof of the world" become caught up in the fractious border dispute between nuclear neighbours India and China.
Morocco artisans fear 'knockout punch' from virus
AFP, Published on 07/06/2020
» RABAT - Pottery, basketwork and wrought-iron furniture pile up in the deserted stalls of the Oulja arts and crafts complex in Sale near the Moroccan capital Rabat.
Samoa shuts down in unprecedented battle against measles crisis
AFP, Published on 05/12/2019
» WELLINGTON - Samoa entered a two-day lockdown Thursday to carry out an unprecedented mass vaccination drive aimed at containing a devastating measles epidemic that has killed dozens of children in the Pacific island nation.
Cambodia creates tourism development committee
Khmer Times, Published on 01/12/2019
» The National Tourism Development Committee has been created to boost the development of one of Cambodia’s most important economic drivers.
Armed soldiers patrol silent streets after Kashmir curfew
AFP, Published on 07/08/2019
» SRINAGAR, India: Armed soldiers stand in front of barbed wire in Indian Kashmir's near-silent summer capital of Srinagar during a massive security lockdown imposed on the restive region by the Hindu nationalist government.