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    Mission to India

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 13/06/2016

    » Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha can expect a warm welcome when he arrives in India on Thursday, but no endorsement, implicit or explicit, of the military regime he heads.

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    Caddie scandal: No caddy, no grades for girl students

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 11/01/2013

    » High school girls allegedly forced to work as caddies at golf clubs. Be a caddy or get no grades.

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    Publicity never bad

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/02/2016

    » Thanks for your brave attempt at clarifying what bridge is and is not (Life, Feb 15). One of the unintended consequences of the saga is that the Pattaya bridge club, small by international standards, is now the most famous in the entire world, with several hundred newspaper and TV reports and tens of thousands of comments on blogsites talking about it. The tale has also made Jeremy Watson (the organiser) and myself (the founder, in 1994) the best-known bridge players throughout the five continents even though our standards sadly fall short of the brilliance usually required for notoriety.

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    Hun Sen quits smoking after 14 years

    Published on 25/09/2014

    » PHNOM PENH - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Thursday he had quit smoking after struggling hard to stop for more than 14 years.

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    Medicine messiah

    Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 03/08/2015

    » There is nothing remarkable about Onkar Nath Sharma. The resident of a slum in western Delhi, he's 157 centimetres tall, weighs less than 50 kilogrammes and is on the wrong side of 70. He moves about with difficulty, as his feet face inward and he has growths on his kneecaps, the result of shoddy surgery after an accident when he was young.

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    Fashion city Bangkok

    Jon Fernquest, Published on 24/12/2010

    » Perhaps the most dynamic and cosmopolitan city in Asia, proper planning could put Bangkok on the fast track for becoming Asia's fashion center.

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    Threats raise more questions than answers

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 25/06/2015

    » 'Why do men continue to get prettier as the days go by?" The question, a rhetorical one, was asked by Woody Milintachinda on his morning TV show Woody Teun Ma Kui last week. And, no, he was not referring to Caitlyn Jenner. His subject was homebound and revolved around Thailand's latest sensation that most of us have come to know as Nong Wo.

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    Will Nepenthes suratensis make bail?

    Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 24/06/2015

    » Kanchanadit district of Surat Thani province boasts a botanical uniqueness — it is a home to Nepenthes suratensis, a species of tropical pitcher plant endemic to the southern region of Thailand. An exotic, brightly coloured specimen, the plant is also a critically endangered one. Only a few hundred are currently growing in the wild in this area.

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    From a vision statement to vision scenarios

    Business, Detlef Reis, Published on 12/05/2016

    » What's the corporate vision of your organisation? At Thinkergy, we've always had a clear picture of a compelling future for our innovation company. But due to changes in the wider business environment, our crystal-clear and motivating vision had somehow become hazy, lukewarm and doubtful. So what can we do to retain or regain vision clarity in uncertain times?

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    Sikhs up in arms against sect leader turned screen superhero

    Asia focus, Published on 12/01/2015

    » Parts of northern India are on the boil over the release of MSG (Messenger of God), a film that portrays the controversial head of the Dera Sacha Sauda religious sect as a superhero who beats to a pulp criminals involved in trafficking of drugs and women. The sect, according to "godman" Gurmeet Ram Rahim, has more than 50 million members and has ashrams in 11 states of India.

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