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    Pulling it all together

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/07/2017

    » What I learned from years of backpacking is that there's no single pattern of development. Every country I've been to has had its unique history, which is why the prospect of globalisation is incongruous and why mother countries couldn't hold on to their colonies.

  • WORLD

    China gives villager death sentence over massacre of 19

    Associated Press, Published on 28/07/2017

    » BEIJING -- A court in southwest China said Friday it has sentenced to death a man who killed 19 people, including his parents and several other relatives, in a bloody rampage with a pickaxe.

  • LIFE

    Action-packed

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 15/06/2018

    » When a popular author passes away, his/her estate seeks a replacement to keep generating income. Hopefully, one who can step into the shoes with nary a squeak. Alas, there have been more than a few squeaks and the replacement -- a competent scribe for the stories he's accustomed to writing -- is unable to make the change. The estate may try others with the same result.

  • WORLD

    Pakistan summons US ambassador over angry Trump tweet

    Published on 03/01/2018

    » ISLAMABAD: Pakistan civilian and military chiefs on Tuesday rejected "incomprehensible" US comments after President Donald Trump tweeted angrily about Pakistani "lies and deceit", with Islamabad summoning the US ambassador.

  • WORLD

    London fire toll now 58; Queen cites sombre mood

    New York Times, Published on 18/06/2017

    » LONDON -- London police said Saturday that the death toll from the inferno at the Grenfell Tower in west London had risen to 58.

  • LIFE

    A crisis of faith

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 21/04/2017

    » While martyrdom indicates the intensity of belief in, not the truth of, a religion, religious wars have been bloody throughout human history. Though not regarded as a war of religion, six million Jews died in the Nazi Holocaust. Christianity in general, Catholics in particular, experienced persecution for centuries.

  • WORLD

    Gunman storms Florida gay club - 50 dead

    New York Times, Published on 12/06/2016

    » ORLANDO, Florida — A gunman killed 50 people and wounded 53 in a crowded gay nightclub in Orlando on Sunday, officials said, in the worst mass shooting in US history. Law enforcement officials said it could have been an act of Islamist terrorism.

  • WORLD

    Nobel laureates to Suu Kyi: End genocide or face prosecution

    Reuters, Published on 28/02/2018

    » DHAKA: Three Nobel peace laureates urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the military on Wednesday to end the "genocide" of Rohingya Muslims now or face prosecution.

  • LIFE

    New breed of Bollywood movie

    Life, Prangthong Jitcharoenkul, Published on 28/03/2017

    » Sept 5, 1986. Pan Am Flight 73 from Mumbai to New York was on a stopover at Karachi airport. The senior flight purser Neerja Bhanot alerted the captain, co-pilot and other crew members as to what was going on, and they fled under gunfire from the cockpit's overhead hatch. Before the 350 passengers on-board realised what was happening, the plane was hijacked.

  • LIFE

    The midlife crisis

    Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 09/03/2018

    » What newlyweds with stars in their eyes aren't told by their elders is that there will be speed bumps in the marriage. One of the more common is the so-called seven-year-itch. The figure is approximate and refers to either or both parties being irresistibly drawn to others several years into a relationship. Usually he or she does nothing about -- but if they do, they take lovers.

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