In Taining, Fujian There are journeys that take us from one destination to another, and there are journeys that quietly return us to ourselves. My experience on the bamboo raft along Shangqing
Summary: Gratitude is often hailed as a path to happiness—but its darker consequences are rarely discussed. Social pressures to express thanks can generate guilt, anxiety, and performative compliance while masking systemic injustices and
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Comrade Rohana Wijeweera, the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), was arrested and subsequently murdered 36 years ago on November 13. His disappearance in 1989 symbolised the turbulent end of the
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What began as a local dispute in Nottinghamshire, England, has become a cautionary tale about the creeping restrictions on press freedom worldwide. Council leader Mick Barton of the right-wing Reform UK party
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Ten of India’s largest trade unions condemned the government’s rollout of new labour codes on Friday, calling the overhaul “a deceptive fraud” against workers. The unions, aligned with parties opposing Prime Minister
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Rural development is the single most powerful lever for inclusive growth in countries where a large share of the population lives outside cities. For Sri Lanka—where a significant portion of people depend
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A sweeping Financial Times investigation has revealed that tuna sold by major UK supermarkets is being sourced from fisheries where migrant crews report violence, forced labour, withheld pay and inhumane working conditions.
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Note by Caren Martineau: Having explored the implications of America’s aging demographic in my introductory article, I wanted to follow up with a piece that continues to provide information, clarity, and encouragement in support
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by Eric To read How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude is to encounter gratitude not as a soft moral sentiment but as a cultural force powerful
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Israel’s Ministry of Economy and Industry has announced a new quota allowing 1,500 unskilled workers from Sri Lanka to enter the country, a measure designed to strengthen the industrial sector. The initiative
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Myanmar’s military government has seized close to 10,000 mobile phones and related equipment used in online scam operations as part of an escalating crackdown on criminal syndicates operating near the Thai border,
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Scientists have found that humanity’s love of kissing dates back far earlier than previously imagined, possibly originating with our distant ape ancestors 21 million years ago, a new study by the University
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The newly released Anthropic investigation reveals that a state-sponsored threat group has carried out the first largely autonomous cyber-espionage campaign, using an AI system to execute nearly all stages of the attack
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“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” ~ Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot Staged in the broad, resonant spaces of the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles during its much-anticipated 2025 season,
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OpenAI has developed an experimental large language model designed to be far easier to understand than conventional AI systems, MIT Technology Review reports. Unlike today’s powerful but opaque models, which operate as
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Britain announced on Saturday that it intends to revoke statutory duties such as housing and weekly allowances for asylum seekers who are able to work but choose not to, as well as
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