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War, modernity shake up pacifist sect
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» When he was growing up among the Doukhobors, a pacifist religious group that immigrated to Canada from czarist Russia, J J Verigin would sometimes arrive home from school to find naked elderly women trying to burn down his family's house.
Join Chiva-Som for mangrove preservation
Life, Published on 22/06/2023
» Chiva-Som in Hua Hin continues its commitment to sustainability with mangrove planting and a fundraising gala for its mangrove preservation project to celebrate the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem that falls annually on July 26.
A peace-whisperer with plenty of enemies
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/06/2023
» For a champion of peace, Leyner Palacios faces a lot of death threats.
ChatGPT disrupts Asian property industry
South China Morning Post, Published on 10/06/2023
» HONG KONG: In a city of the future, a citizen looking to buy a home will simply explain their requirements to an artificial intelligence (AI)-based assistant, which will orchestrate the entire selection and buying process without a human property agent - or the commissions such agents command.
Binance halts trading in US dollars
New York Times, Published on 09/06/2023
» NEW YORK: The American branch of Binance, the giant cryptocurrency exchange, said late Thursday that it would no longer allow customers to trade on its platform using United States dollars, after its banking partners cut the firm off in response to a crackdown by federal regulators.
Native adoptions back in prospect
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 04/06/2023
» Chris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted native American boys and girls, somewhere at a hilly park.
From birds to bullets: they've seen it all
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» Few things in science appear to be as delicate or precarious as the giant mirrors at the hearts of modern telescopes.
Pull up a chair, Max
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» To celebrate the 10-month anniversary of the successful spinal surgery on Jagger, her goldendoodle, Cat Torrejon-Nisbet didn't buy him the traditional rawhide dog bone. Instead, she paid US$15 (507 baht) for a light pink, rose-shaped dog pastry made with antelope heart from Dogue, a canine restaurant in San Francisco.
Mitsotakis urges 'stronger' Greece as uncertain vote gets underway
AFP, Published on 21/05/2023
» ATHENS: Greeks began casting ballots Sunday in a general election that could deliver a chaotic outcome, with the leading candidate, outgoing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, urging voters to return him to power for a "stronger country".
Singer's star power sets off mini-boom
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/05/2023
» Year after year, 8 million vehicles drove through this sleepy town just off US Highway 75, which stretches from Texas to Canada. Almost none of them stopped.