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What do we know about coronavirus?
AFP, Published on 07/04/2020
» PARIS: Just three months ago, few people even knew the word "coronavirus". But as the disease continues to spread across the globe, infecting and killing thousands, and causing millions to live in self-isolation, it has become a watchword for the daily life of billions.
Burn or spurn? What to do with Western waste
AFP, Published on 05/06/2019
» PARIS: Western countries must increasingly deal with hard to dispose of plastics because China and many southeastern Asian countries no longer want them.
Eat, pray, exercise: Monks battle weight problems
AFP, Published on 22/11/2018
» Every morning monk Pipit Sarakitwinon takes walks around his temple and does hundreds of arm exercises, part of a new regimen aimed at shedding pounds as a health overhaul for members of the clergy gathers pace in Thailand.
Vietnam, US launch Agent Orange clean-up
AFP, Published on 18/10/2016
» HANOI - Vietnam and the United States on Tuesday launched the second phase of a dioxin clean-up in the central city of Da Nang, where millions of litres of Agent Orange were stored during the war between the former enemies.
Military Court to still try some 500 civilian cases
AFP, Published on 13/09/2016
» The Military Court will still hear some 500 ongoing cases against civilians, a senior junta official said on Tuesday, a day after the regime announced an end to the controversial practice.
China's 'Mistress hunters' on a mission
AFP, Published on 08/09/2016
» BEIJING - Don't get mad, get your opponent to surrender voluntarily: when Mrs Wang discovered her husband had been cheating on her for several years, she called in an elite team of Chinese "mistress hunters".
Study sounds alarm for slow-breeding forest elephants
AFP, Published on 31/08/2016
» PARIS - Even without poachers, Central Africa's forest elephants would need almost a century to get their numbers back up to 2002 levels, according to researchers who studied the elusive creatures' slow-breeding habits.
Grain drain, Laos' sand mining damaging the Mekong
AFP, Published on 27/07/2016
» VIENTIANE - Grain by grain, truckload by truckload, Laos' section of the Mekong river is being dredged of sand to make cement -- a commodity being devoured by a Chinese-led building boom in the capital.
Kenya counts on team of canine agents to sniff out illegal ivory
News, AFP, Published on 04/03/2016
» Burrowing deep into a huge pile of jumbled luggage, Dick the dog wags his tail, pawing at a small green rucksack: inside is the hand-sized tip of an elephant's tusk.
NYT edition printed with blank spaces in Thailand
AFP, Published on 01/12/2015
» The International New York Times said its printer in Thailand removed an article on the moribund state of the kingdom's economy on Tuesday, leaving the edition with blank spaces, including on the cover.