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Oil smugglers' Cook Islands office enabling sanctions-busting 'shadow fleets'
Steven Trask of AFP, Published on 02/12/2025
» CANBERRA - Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks, an AFP analysis of sanctions data has revealed.
Why is everyone becoming so self-righteous?
Oped, Steven Sloman, Published on 18/09/2025
» It feels increasingly difficult nowadays to avoid righteousness; or, worse, self-righteousness. We are constantly being told what to do by those who supposedly have seen the light. For example, I was recently scolded by a colleague for suggesting that my own employer should aim to hire the best people, regardless of their sex or race. I was struck by the confidence that this person felt in instructing me on what I should value; it felt high-handed and uninformed.
Amazing Thai is MasterChef champ 2023
News, PETER HILL, Published on 05/06/2023
» Chariya Khattiyot, 40, was crowned MasterChef 2023 champion in the United Kingdom last Thursday for her dazzling dishes of northern-style Thai food.
The hidden tale of a 3-legged tiger
Oped, Steven R. Galster, Published on 17/02/2022
» Tigers are in the news again. First, rare camera-trap footage released last week showed a three-legged victim of poaching, a female tiger, hopping through the jungles of western Thailand, eating domestic animals (and possibly attacking people too). Days later: an undercover bust of traffickers with tiger skins in the same region. To keep hope alive for the critically endangered big cat, authorities must now act on two levels. First, they must rescue the amputee before she or poachers strike again. Second, they need to address the underlying causes of poaching before other tigers, animals and people suffer.
The battle between Big Tech and the free press
Oped, Steven Hill, Published on 10/04/2021
» Worldwide, the free press is waging a battle for survival against Facebook and Google. Besides being gushing firehoses of Covid disinformation and QAnon conspiracies, Google and Facebook have been dangerously undermining the financial stability of media outlets all over the world.
Making tech giants responsible for user content
Oped, Steven Hill, Published on 28/01/2021
» Why do so many people, including both presidents Trump and Biden, keep talking about eliminating an obscure law called Section 230?
A vaccine against outbreaks: Ban wildlife trade
News, Steven R Galster, Published on 21/03/2020
» As Thailand and its neighbors scramble to contain the pandemic and panic, we urgently need to start building a response to the source of Covid-19, or risk having new outbreaks hit us even harder. There is good reason to believe that we know the source -- global wildlife trade -- and that there is a solution.
Bitcoin Has Biggest New-Year Rally Since 2012
Business, Steven Russolillo, Published on 16/01/2020
» Bitcoin is enjoying its best start to a year since 2012, with enthusiasts pointing toward hopes for more widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies as a factor fueling the rally.
Putin overplays his hand over Macedonia name deal
News, Christopher R Hill, Published on 21/08/2018
» The Kremlin's foreign policy increasingly seems to rest on the assumption that all countries are as corruptible as Vladimir Putin's Russia. This was evident most recently in Russia's alleged efforts to undermine an agreement between Greece and its tiny northern neighbour, the Republic of Macedonia, over the latter's name. Assuming that Macedonians approve a Sept 30 referendum, their country will henceforth be known as the Republic of North Macedonia.
'Nutty' Thai chef wows 'MasterChef' judges
B Magazine, Peter Hill, Published on 22/04/2018
» An amateur Thai chef described as "nuts" because of his eccentric food combinations wowed the judges in the final of Britain's top TV cooking competition. Nawamin Pinpathomrat, 28, from Songkhla province, competed against two English chefs in Friday's final of the BBC hit show MasterChef 2018.