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Fight back or flee? Myanmar draft forces hard choices on youth
Reuters, Published on 08/04/2024
» Weeks after Myanmar's military government announced a nationwide draft, two young women from far-flung parts of the Southeast Asian country headed to the jungles to take up arms against the junta.
‘Alien fever’ fuels grave robbing in Peru
Published on 06/04/2024
» NAZCA, Peru - Leandro Rivera says he chanced upon the cave in Peru’s remote Nazca region that contained hundreds of pre-Hispanic artifacts — including human bodies with elongated heads and what appeared to be only three fingers on each hand.
China's young avoid tying the knot
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/07/2023
» It has been a brutal three years for China's young adults. Their unemployment rate is soaring amid a wave of corporate layoffs. Draconian coronavirus restrictions are over, but not the sense of uncertainty about the future they created.
Modern medicine in ancient Rome
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 02/07/2023
» Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were sceptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for being greedy, for taking sexual advantage of patients and, above all, for incompetence.
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.
Rising sea threat for D-Day beaches
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 25/06/2023
» Even filled with grass and wildflowers, the craters remain so deep and wide that you can still sense the blasts of bombs that carved them 79 years ago. At the pockmarked entrance of an old German bunker, you can almost feel the rattle of machine-gun fire.
Pearl farm shows nature's artistry at work
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 18/06/2023
» It was raining hard, with blustery winds roiling the sea -- unusual conditions on the spring day when I visited the Mikimoto Tatoku Pearl Farm in this coastal city on Japan's main island of Honshu.
Elephant seals big on power naps
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/06/2023
» It long seemed as if African elephants were the champions of the all-nighter. They can get by on about two hours of sleep. Other mammals need much more, like koalas (20 hours) or you (at least seven plus at least one strong cup of coffee).
Phony claims swirl around Sri Lanka's holiest tree
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» ANURADHAPURA (SRI LANKA) - When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka's holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo's cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops.
How Paris is remaking the Seine
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 28/05/2023
» An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges before turning at the Eiffel Tower and gliding to the riverbank.