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Obama's pick engages Supreme Court battle
New York Times, Published on 17/03/2016
» WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated Merrick B. Garland to be the nation’s 113th Supreme Court justice, choosing a centrist appellate judge who could reshape the court for a generation and become the face of a bitter election-year confirmation struggle.
World considers a Trump presidency, and many shudder
Associated Press, Published on 03/03/2016
» BRUSSELS -- Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing possibility the brash New York billionaire might become America's next president -- a thought that aroused widespread befuddlement and a good deal of horror.
35 minutes at a Trump campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa
News, AFP, Published on 02/02/2016
» "Turn to your neighbour and tell them why you're going to caucus for Donald Trump," one of the candidate's men instructs the hundreds of people gathered in an airport hangar in the Iowa city of Dubuque.
Portraits of misery beneath the surface
Spectrum, Published on 06/12/2015
» Fine, black dust blankets nearly everything in Tigyit. It settles on rooftops and blows inside homes, bringing with it a noxious odour that clings to clothes and skin. In the dry months, locals say, it coats their crops, causing them to fail.
Right qualifications, wrong colour skin
Spectrum, Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Published on 04/10/2015
» When Lyndsay Cabildo booked her ticket to Thailand in 2012, she had been promised 2,000 baht per day to work as a part-time English teacher supplying cover to schools around the country.
Image of dead child on beach haunts, frustrates world
Associated Press, Published on 04/09/2015
» The photo of the dead three-year-old Syrian boy on a Turkish beach is haunting.
Keeping children safe from sexual predators
Spectrum, Published on 26/07/2015
» When the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency paid their first visit to Thailand’s Education Ministry earlier this year, they came with a warning: there are Brits out there who may be a risk to Thai children.
With Asia's dating apps, love by numbers or chaperone
AFP, Published on 29/07/2015
» HONG KONG - Move over Tinder -- a crop of dating apps in smartphone-addicted Asia is offering to recruit friends for group dates or send along a chaperone to steer the course of romance.
40 years after Vietnam War, north-south wounds fester
Associated Press, Published on 30/04/2015
» HO CHI MINH CITY – When Luu Dinh Trieu was drafted into the South Vietnamese army, he literally went to war against his father.
The new front line
Spectrum, Published on 19/04/2015
» Just over 40 years ago, on April 17, the battle for Cambodia was lost. The US abandoned the kingdom, and the Cambodian people, and left them in the hands of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime. An estimated 1.7 to 2.5 million from a population of roughly eight million in 1975 died in the following years.