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    Google trial's secrecy seen as dangerous

    Oped, Published on 08/12/2023

    » The largest antitrust trial of the modern internet era, which wrapped up last month, has pitted the world's most popular search engine, Google, against the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). The case hearkens back to the DOJ's landmark lawsuit against Microsoft in the 1990s but with a critical difference: most of it was held behind closed doors. This unprecedented secrecy meant that only journalists and observers who were physically in the courtroom had access -- albeit limited -- to the proceedings.

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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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    Honour models for democracy

    News, Editorial, Published on 18/12/2022

    » Since the 1998 ouster of the dictator Suharto -- who ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for over three decades -- the world's fourth most populous nation has undergone a series of rapid changes. Once dependent on foreign aid to exercise its basic functions, Indonesia has firmly established itself as a major economic player in the Asia-Pacific region, with the distinction of being the only Southeast Asian economy to be included in the Group of 20.

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    Iranian fighters feel the squeeze

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 11/12/2022

    » Sitting under an oak tree on a mountainside in the Kurdish region of Iraq, Mohammad Kurd said he recently fled neighbouring Iran after two friends were killed by security forces and the powerful Revolutionary Guard started going door to door to arrest anti-government protesters.

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    Embalming, the dying science

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022

    » Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?

  • News & article

    Let pupils design uniforms

    News, Postbag, Published on 06/11/2022

    » Re: "Casual dress allowed at college exams," (BP, Nov 5).

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    Tears, anger on 'Joola' sinking anniversary

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 16/10/2022

    » Up on the deck, dozens of university students played cards. In the first-class cabins below, passengers watched the movie Air Force One. In an overcrowded third-class compartment, a teenage football team on its way to a tournament belted out songs.

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    Coping with vast open space and sheep

    Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/10/2022

    » The baas, bleats and bells were fading ever so slightly, and the shepherd's trained ear detected that his flock was veering off the path home, for this was the soundtrack of his life in the Rocky Mountains. "The sheep must be herded," he said in Spanish, as he quickly ascended a hill overlooking a meadow.

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