Sri Lanka was struck by severe flooding and landslides caused by Cyclone Ditwah, leading to road blockages, destruction of homes and loss of life. Immediately following the disaster, Chinese companies operating in
Social network Bluesky announced Friday that it has reached 40 million users and will soon begin testing a new “dislikes” feature aimed at improving personalization across its feeds. The move comes as
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For the past two decades, APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, has been reshaping the Asia-Pacific’s approach to growth. Since the 2011 Honolulu Leaders’ Declaration, APEC has placed “green growth” at the
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Editorial Asia’s glittering skylines tell a lie. Beneath the gleam of new money, towering tech empires and the rhetoric of “inclusive growth”, the continent is quietly eating itself alive. Oxfam’s report, An
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by Eric Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead reads like an obituary written by the accused at the funeral. It is brash, polemical, and intentionally blasphemous against the new secular religion of progressive
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by Durga Dr Gwen Adshead’s Four Questions About Violence is one of those deceptively calm titles that conceals a detonator. It’s a book written by a forensic psychiatrist who has spent decades
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Thailand’s Queen Sirikit, the Queen Mother and one of the nation’s most revered figures, passed away late Friday in Bangkok at the age of 93 after suffering from sepsis, the Bureau of
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“Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know,” the 18th-century British writer Lord Chesterfield advised his son. But common sense doesn’t stay that way. While it appears to
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A combination of a surgically implanted chip and augmented-reality (AR) glasses is giving hope to people who have lost their sight — allowing many to read again after years of blindness. According
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In the wild, a mouse or rat leads a precarious life. In the city, they dodge traps, poisons, and broom-wielding humans. In the countryside, they face owls, shotguns, and more poison. As
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(The Nobel Prize for Peace this year went to a person – María Corina Machado – who has called upon the US government to bomb her own country, Venezuela, and has supported
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