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Scents of royalty
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 12/12/2023
» Famous for luxury interior designs, Clive Christian OBE acquired The Crown Perfumery Company in 1999.
A wider focus
Life, Published on 29/12/2021
» If you think that many of the top 10 end-of-year movie lists could use a little more dystopia, fight scenes or bone-chilling moments, our genre experts hear you. They have been offering streaming recommendations all year on an eclectic mix of action movies, horror films, sci-fi spectacles and international selections. Now they've sifted through the films of 2021 to come up with a handful of standouts, all available to stream now.
Singapore, Helsinki, Zurich top index of world's smartest cities
Life, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 23/09/2020
» Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich are the world's smartest cities, according to an index published last week amid a growing debate on the future of urban design for a post-Covid era.
Calls mount to lift bans on gay men giving blood amid coronavirus
Life, Matthew Lavietes and Enrique Anarte and Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 20/04/2020
» Andreas, a gay man living in Berlin, wants to donate blood but he is not allowed.
That song stuck in your head
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 10/12/2019
» After Dance Monkey by Australian singer-songwriter Tones and I topped a music chart recently, its lyric got stuck inside the head of many listeners. Oh, I see you, see you, see you every time. And oh my, I, I like your style. People can sing this, all day, all night.
Giving something back
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 08/02/2019
» The height of glamour, the Bangkok Chefs Charity Gala Dinner is an affair marked by dazzling attire and luxurious food.
Spice Girls probe charity T-shirts over 'abuse' in Bangladesh
Life, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 23/01/2019
» British pop band The Spice Girls said they will fund an investigation into a Bangladesh factory over its treatment of women who make T-shirts for a charity campaign backing equality.
Amy Schumer, Ashley Judd join calls to free US child sex trafficking victim
Life, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Published on 19/12/2018
» Actors Amy Schumer and Ashley Judd have backed a campaign for an American woman convicted of killing a man who paid to have sex with her as a child to be given clemency.
South Korea, Japan lead Asia-Pacific's most innovative universities
Life, Reuters, Published on 06/06/2018
» Every scientist hopes for a "Eureka" moment -- the jolt of sudden insight when a discovery becomes clear. But great advances always follow regular progress, and while individual researchers might strive for disruption, institutions are most successful when they're consistent and steady. That's one conclusion of Reuters' annual ranking of Asia Pacific's Most Innovative Universities, a list that identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries.
A weird and wonderful journey
Life, Yvonne Bohwongprasert, Published on 18/05/2018
» When Roger Crutchley set off from London on a mainly overland sojourn to Australia as a 22-year-old, little did he know that he had embarked on an adventure of a lifetime. Fate had him destined to head towards Thailand instead, which eventually became his home away from home for now almost half a century. And counting.