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Published on 30/04/2024
» HONG KONG: The amount of illegal drugs confiscated from air travellers at Hong Kong International Airport soared to 370 kilogrammes in the first four months of the year, a 32% increase over the total amount seized in all of 2023.
Reuters, Published on 23/04/2024
» KUALA LUMPUR - Ten people were killed on Tuesday when two helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a Royal Malaysian Navy parade, the navy said in a statement.
Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 17/12/2023
» Natalia Zapotochna, 37, wonders how she and her family will rebuild their lives amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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.
Published on 10/11/2022
» An online news reporter has been jailed for three months after pleading guilty to insulting China's national anthem by waving the British Hong Kong flag at a mall screening of the Olympic gold medal ceremony for local fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long in 2021.
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.
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.
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 23/07/2023
» Perhaps you are one of the more than 5,000 subscribers to "Popping Tins," an email newsletter devoted exclusively to tinned seafood. Perhaps you belong to a tinned-fish-of-the-month club, or have leafed through a tinned-fish-focused cookbook that tells you how best to cook a food already cooked.
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.
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.