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Japan to remove entry cap in 'not-so-distant future'
Published on 11/09/2022
» TOKYO: Japan is reviewing its border control policy of keeping daily entries below 50,000 and will remove it in the "not so distant future," a government spokesman said on Sunday.
'No use worrying': Taiwanese tourists carry on despite China threat
AFP, Published on 16/08/2022
» KINMEN, Taiwan: Visiting Taiwan's tiny Kinmen Islands last week, Joseph Lin practised standing up on his paddleboard, drifting across from the Chinese city of Xiamen, where days earlier fighter jets had screamed overhead.
Western Europe wilts under heatwave
AFP, Published on 13/07/2022
» BORDEAUX: France and Britain suffered soaring temperatures Wednesday, edging closer to the blistering heat already engulfing Spain and Portugal as wildfires destroyed vast stretches of Western European forestland.
Western Europe wilts under fresh heatwave
AFP, Published on 12/07/2022
» MADRID - Firefighters battled wildfires in Spain and Portugal Tuesday as Western Europe faced its second heatwave in less than a month which threatened glaciers in the Alps and worsened drought conditions.
'Lightyear', animated film with lesbian kiss, banned in UAE
AFP, Published on 13/06/2022
» DUBAI: Disney's animated movie "Lightyear", which contains a lesbian kiss, has been banned from cinemas in the United Arab Emirates, officials said Monday without giving details.
A well-read, empty village
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 08/05/2022
» Standing on a hilltop in northwestern Spain, Uruena overlooks a vast and windswept landscape of sunflower and barley fields, as well as a famous winery. The walls of some shops are built directly into the 12th-century ramparts of the village.
Mass shooting stuns sleepy town
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 10/04/2022
» The small city of empty storefronts and vacant lots that is Dumas has seen its population drain away steadily over the decades.
British royals begin challenging Caribbean tour
Published on 19/03/2022
» BELIZE CITY: Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrive in Belize on Saturday for a week-long Caribbean tour that sparked controversy before it even began amid growing scrutiny of the British Empire’s colonial ties to the region.
Australia lifts two-year travel ban
Bloomberg News, Published on 21/02/2022
» For British banker Roger Smyth, Australia’s border reopening could not come soon enough. After landing at Sydney Airport on Monday morning, he embraced his girlfriend Danni Wang for the first time in three months -- the pair now plan to marry during Smyth’s week-long visit.
Sex in the sky, for a price
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» For US$995 (32,700 baht), Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for 45 minutes so that you can have sex.