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Museums return silver lost to the Nazis
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» It was noon on Nov 10, 1938, when Nazi officers came to the door of William Bergman's Munich home, arrested him for being a Jew and shipped him off to the Dachau concentration camp, about a 30-minute drive away.
Marvel superhero holds fast to Maya roots
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» For her big underwater scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy had to hold her breath as her character, Princess Fen, gives birth in a hazy ocean world to a winged serpent son.
Bees can save elephants
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» It's a familiar, dreaded scenario in many parts of Africa and Asia: An elephant shows up, wanders into farmers' fields, and tramples and eats crops. Sometimes farmers fight back, and elephants are killed.
'Born-again Muslims' upset their elders
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» A boy band belted out songs about loving the Prophet Muhammad. A young woman wearing a full-face veil was moved to tears by the faith of new converts. Later, the crowd applauded as a 15-year-old girl converted to Islam before their eyes. Many posted selfies on social media, delighting in their shared faith.
Tiny hotel lifeline on deadly mountain pass
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» The hotel is perched on the side of a mountain blanketed in snow. The ice-slicked road outside is treacherous. It stretches for kilometres in either direction through jagged peaks as it winds around the edges of cliffs and dips past piles of boulders left over from frequent rockslides.
Last days for smoky New York City literary salon
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» About a year ago, a literary salon sprang to life in a run-down town house in the West Village. Dozens of young writers, critics, artists, theatre actors and filmmakers started going there almost nightly to drink, smoke, talk, dance and argue, much like their bohemian predecessors in the days before sky-high rents priced poets out of the neighbourhood.
Body in a hole, just deserts, drinker's courage
News, Mae Moo, Published on 30/04/2023
» Surprise twist in probe
Let's consult Agatha
News, Postbag, Published on 30/04/2023
» Re: "More charges await serial-killing suspect," (BP, April 27).
Poster boys and girls near final straight
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 30/04/2023
» Try as you might you just cannot escape the forthcoming election with all those posters dangling from lampposts and the few remaining trees. The posters have been there for several months now and some are beginning to look a little the worse for wear, especially after this week's welcome rain in Bangkok. There is possibly nothing less appealing than a soggy political poster... apart from a soggy politician.
Trafficking battle yet to be won
News, Editorial, Published on 30/04/2023
» When Thailand's ranking in anti-human trafficking efforts improved last year in the US annual assessment, the government boldly declared that Thailand would make the top ranking by 2023.