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A floating shelter for the displaced
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/03/2023
» The dinner theatre is now a day care centre, where children rifle through boxes of donated toys. The beauty salon has turned into a one-man barbershop.
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When the everyday looks special
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022
» Julie Blackmon grew up in Springfield, Missouri, a city of 165,000 people in the southern part of the state, and went to college there. She got married in Springfield and raised three children there.
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Literature Festival highlights regional narratives
Life, Published on 02/11/2023
» The "Bangkok Literature Festival" returns with a platform to spotlight Southeast Asia in the literary world, at Neilson Hays Library, Surawong Road, on Saturday and Sunday, from 9am to 6pm.
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All things in Harmony
Life, Published on 14/11/2023
» Barry Manilow is superstitious. Such a statement may come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the 80-year-old pop legend's career, with decades of hits, endless Las Vegas residencies and international fame as a still-smooth crooner who wrote the songs that made the whole world sing.
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Famous Italian brand spreads to Manhattan
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» For decades, people in search of the best food in Rome have found their way into the arms of the Roscioli family. Atop a network of wine cellars between the ancient Jewish quarter and the Campo de' Fiori flower market, descendants of Marco and Franco Roscioli run four businesses, each outstanding in its field: a bread bakery, a pastry shop, a wine bar and a salumeria moonlighting as a restaurant that has become one of the most sought-after tables in the city.
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Holdouts in a nuclear zone
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 07/05/2023
» The world's worst nuclear disaster, unfolding only a few kilometres away, did not force Halyna Voloshyna, 74, to abandon her home in Chernobyl in 1986.
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Medical care, one ship at a time
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» Jeoung Byeong-deok remembered how a grateful old woman waited on the pier so she could wave goodbye when his ship pulled away from the island.
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In Bali, warring sides cohabitate
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At a cafe nearly 100,000 kilometres from the front lines, the Kyiv-style cake sits near the kartoshkas, a Russian dessert made of cookies, condensed milk and butter.
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Tiny literary shoots take root
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/04/2023
» Before Sally Rooney was the author of bestselling books, and well before those books became buzzy television series, she was an undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin with a growing pile of unpublished poems and no contacts in the writing world. Her first break came in 2010, when The Stinging Fly, a small Irish literary magazine, agreed to publish her work.
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Suppressed culture makes bestseller
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 19/02/2023
» Two days after Christmas, Ann-Helen Laestadius found herself being gently pummelled by reindeer.
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