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Why are there so few women in top managerial roles in Japan?
Published on 15/05/2022
» TOKYO: Despite decades of promises that women would have the chance to "shine" in Japan's corporate and political worlds, the country lags behind other industrialised nations in gender equality.
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'The Rock' diamond goes under the hammer
AFP, Published on 11/05/2022
» GENEVA: "The Rock", the biggest white diamond ever to be sold at auction, will go under the hammer in Geneva on Wednesday and could fetch up to $30 million -- or more.
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Thai... caviar? Farm produces delicacy in tropical climate
Published on 14/04/2022
» At his upmarket Bangkok restaurant, Michelin-starred chef Thitid "Ton" Tassanakajohn spoons black caviar onto a plate, adding the newly affordable Thailand-made delicacy to his reinterpreted traditional family recipes.
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Good times: Luxury watchmakers face soaring demand
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» ZURICH: Times have been so good for luxury watchmakers that they are running behind demand, forcing some to delay the release of new collections and others to invest more in production capacity.
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Gorilla among 200 endangered species threatened by conflict
AFP, Published on 29/04/2021
» GENEVA: Civil unrest and military exercises pose heightened risks to more than 200 threatened species, including elephant populations and the critically-endangered Eastern gorilla, conservationists warned Wednesday.
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The true nature of the beast?
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/11/2020
» 'Happy families are all alike," said Tolstoy, "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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To catch a (wildlife) criminal
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 30/08/2017
» A small round sample of smuggled ivory is put in a zip-locked plastic bag. Although the piece is the size of a bead, it is hard and must be hammered many times before being broken into little pieces. The specimen is put in a test tube so a freezer mill can grind and pulverise the ivory sample for a DNA test.
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Slow to rise
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 22/03/2017
» At around 11am, you'd think the BTS and MRT would have emptied out from the rush hour's crowd of commuters, making way for a fast and easy ride to work.
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Regulating (or not) the world of online news
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 23/01/2017
» Ten months after television anchor Sorrayuth Suthassanachinda bowed down to peer pressure and quit his role as host of a popular morning show, the celebrity newsman made a comeback in front of the camera -- which happens to be his own.
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Sex education
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 11/07/2016
» Male TV-talk-show host Wuthithorn "Woody" Milintachinda announced recently that he's married a man. The news in a way served as a long-awaited clarification given that Wuthithorn's sexual identity has always been in question. Indeed, it's received a mixed bag of reactions.
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