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    Some 2023 tales you may have missed

    Roger Crutchley, Published on 31/12/2023

    » It is customary at this time of the year for PostScript to look back at some of the major happenings of the last 12 months. But we will have a change this year because the news has been far too depressing. So instead we will examine some of the not-so-major happenings of 2023 that you might have missed amongst all the gloom and doom. They may not be particularly significant but are a lot more fun than the grim stuff we read every day.

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    Asean mapping out a vision for 2045

    Oped, Kavi Chongkittavorn, Published on 15/08/2023

    » Regional experts and scholars have been busy squeezing their brains to draft Asean's vision for the next two decades. They are already halfway there. However, a lot more needs to be done to ensure that the new Asean Community Post 2025 Vision, which will now run up to 2045, will fit the overall aspiration of Asean citizens, who currently number roughly 672 million.

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    Want to use less air conditioning? Turn on a fan

    News, Published on 25/07/2023

    » Earlier this year, the UK attempted to go coal-free. But an increased need for air conditioning forced the usually temperate country to reverse itself and restart an old coal-fired power plant -- after only 46 days.

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    The Stones just keep rolling along

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 17/07/2022

    » This past week marked the 60th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' first-ever gig which took place at the Marquee club in London. That makes me feel even more wrinkly than usual.

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    The Thai Blob is spreading its wings

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 27/01/2019

    » Many readers will be familiar with the long-running Adventures of the Blob on certain Thai TV channels in the war against cigarettes. When movies are shown, the blob races around the screen in pursuit of rogue cigarettes and attempts to blob them out to protect defenceless viewers. Unsurprisingly, the ridiculous blob only succeeds in irritating the TV audience. The absurdity of it all was highlighted recently during a gangster movie in which nearly everyone in the room was smoking. This prompted a squadron of blobs to go whizzing across the screen, fighting a losing battle and reducing a supposedly serious scene into a foggy farce.

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    First they came for those who 'twerk'

    News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/06/2017

    » The police this week visited several cultural spaces, to appreciate the art and to mete out censorship. Next they'll give out art prizes -- to those who toe the line and serve the official ideology -- like the propagandistic communist states did in the last century.

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    New carbon plan has advantages

    News, Published on 09/11/2015

    » So far, international climate talks have failed to find a mechanism that will successfully reduce global greenhouse-gas emissions. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol attempted to use a system of tradable quotas to establish a price on carbon-dioxide emissions, but foundered after the United States and several emerging countries refused to join.

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    The curse of cameras

    Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 29/11/2012

    » Picture the scene: a group of eight young women have met up on Friday for a get-together. They're a chummy group and always try to include dinner with each other in their hectic, humble first-job schedules. It's going to be a great evening of catching up on each other's lives amid excellent atmosphere and good food. But as pressing as catching up is, something is more urgent: the screaming void in their stomachs.

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    Living in a wonderful world of misquotations

    News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/09/2012

    » British biographer Hesketh Pearson once observed: ''Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted,'' and he may have had a point. Unfortunately misquotes seem to have a life of their own, especially since the arrival of the internet.

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