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Twitter chief 'unprepared' for weaponised politics
AFP, Published on 06/09/2018
» WASHINGTON: Twitter was "unprepared and ill-equipped" for the vast campaigns of manipulation that affected social media in the past few years, chief executive Jack Dorsey told lawmakers Wednesday.
Toronto film festival looks at politics and sex
AFP, Published on 09/09/2018
» TORONTO (CANADA) - Do voters need to know about a political candidate's sex life? This came up during Donald Trump's 2016 campaign but also three decades earlier when adultery ended another presidential run now the focus of a new film.
Brazil's MV Bill raps politics, pandemic in new album
AFP, Published on 19/05/2021
» RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian rapper MV Bill's new album is both fresh and old-school, full of rhymes on 2021 politics and the pandemic, but also the same problems he has been chronicling in the favelas for 33 years.
Party or politics? All eyes on Bad Bunny at Super Bowl
AFP, Published on 06/02/2026
» NEW YORK - The argument that sport and politics should not mix could be tested at the Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday, when Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny performs against a backdrop of fury from right-wing critics.
Cave raiders: Thai archaeologists hunt ancient artwork
AFP, Published on 06/10/2020
» An antelope, a lonely figure, a family linking arms -- Kanniga Premjai shines her flashlight across a cave to reveal long-hidden paintings, a stunning discovery for her scrappy band of archaeologists.
Nine-year-old Thai tattooist makes his mark
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» Wielding a cumbersome tattoo gun with his small hands swamped in surgical gloves, nine-year-old Napat Mitmakorn expertly inks the pattern of a fanged serpent on a man's upper thigh.
Young Thai chefs shake up Bangkok's food scene
AFP, Published on 29/06/2023
» Thitid Tassanakajohn has a degree in economics from Thailand's top university but turned his back on a stable career in finance to launch a high-end restaurant in Bangkok -- a city famed for its street food.
Embattled rappers fight to speak out in troubled DR Congo
AFP, Published on 07/02/2022
» GOMA (DR CONGO) - "I don't sing to avenge my family, but because other innocent people who know nothing about politics continue to die," says imprisoned Congolese rapper Idengo.
Southern Thai dance form 'nora' gets Unesco heritage status
AFP, Published on 15/12/2021
» Dancers moved gracefully in a circle, their beaded dress pieces swaying as they struck bird-like poses in a dance-drama known as "nora" -- a southern Thai performance art which was added Wednesday to Unesco's prestigious heritage list.
WWE-style wrestling hits Bangkok - with a Thai twist
AFP, Published on 02/08/2022
» A fighter bursts through a flimsy tarpaulin curtain and bounds into the ring wearing a helmet and the unmistakable bright orange jacket of a Bangkok motorbike-taxi rider -- it's Thailand's take on WWE wrestling.