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F&N in dispute with Myanmar partner
Published on 10/09/2013
» Fraser & Neave, controlled by billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi, said it received an arbitration notice from the lawyers of its partner in Myanmar Brewery.
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Sex in the sky, for a price
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 21/02/2022
» For US$995 (32,700 baht), Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for 45 minutes so that you can have sex.
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All aboard a floating jungle supermarket
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/07/2023
» Up the wooden gangplank in a single-file line, nearly an entire indigenous village squeezed onto the Aquidaban's front deck. The Tomarahos had taken the boat downriver to vote in Paraguay's national elections and then had slept outside for four days, waiting for the Aquidaban to take them home.
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Bill Nighy, master of misdirection
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 29/01/2023
» British actor Bill Nighy was trying to describe how he prepared for his character in the new drama Living. He plays Mr Williams, a buttoned-up, almost catatonically reticent bureaucrat in post-World War II London who, upon learning that he is dying, decides finally to live.
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Grandparents embrace digital age
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022
» The 65-year-old woman crouches in a field and holds up a head of cabbage. Behind her, two friends sway back and forth, cucumber and radish in their hands. "This rotten cabbage, let's pull it out, eat it, achieve some foodie freedom," Guo Yifen, the woman with the cabbage, raps in a low and creaky voice in the song Spicy Hot Pot Real Rap.
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F&N to sell Myanmar Brewery stake at $560m
Published on 06/08/2015
» Fraser & Neave Ltd will sell its stake in Myanmar Brewery Ltd at more than double the price offered by local partner Myanmar Economic Holdings Ltd (MEHL), capping a two-year dispute over the country’s leading beermaker.
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Choosing your next book
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 26/06/2022
» By some measures, the book business is doing better than ever. Last year, readers bought nearly 827 million print books, an increase of roughly 10% over 2020, and a record since NPD BookScan began tracking two decades ago.
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50 Years of Making Beautiful Books
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 03/04/2022
» The last book that will ever bear the David R Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself. It's called Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher, and it's a safe bet that the people who these days run his company (now called just Godine) will never put out such a volume again.
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Spain, Germany cases rise; UK PM remains in ICU: Virus update
Published on 08/04/2020
» Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the start of a turnaround in the fight against the virus could come after this week.
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Airports deploy rapid virus tests, sniffer dogs to unlock travel
Bloomberg News, Published on 24/09/2020
» LONDON: A handful of European airports are implementing trials of quick-fire coronavirus tests, working with airlines to push technologies still being developed as a way to revive stunted international air travel.
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