Features
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
CONSERVATION group WWF said it spotted 18 critically endangered Irrawaddy dolphins in Indonesian waters off Borneo island and called for greater protection of the species' habitat.There is little data on the Irrawaddy dolphin — which resembles...
UNRULY traffic is a constant hazard in Mexico City, one of the planet's most heavily populated cities, where more than four million cars jostle for space and the death toll on the roads is rising.Yet amid this chaos, visitors are stunned to learn...
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
CONTROVERSIAL tweets by a Khmer Rouge tribunal judge have inflamed a damaging public spat between the UN and Cambodia and raised questions over how Twitter is used in the courts.Laurent Kasper-Ansermet has angered Phnom Penh by using the micro-...
LHAMO is particularly busy this week as large crowds of Tibetans drop by her garment store in the heart of Lhasa amid a pre-holiday shopping fervour."Tibetan costumes sell really fast in the few weeks before the Tibetan New Year, as people...
DESPITE a new round of cold weather gripping parts of central and eastern China, people around the country are getting out of their homes to celebrate the Lantern Festival, with a variety of lantern shows, firework displays and artistic performances...
THEY trek for days through crocodile-infested swamps and up rain-lashed mountain jungles, but the members of the Malaya Historical Group are not seeking treasure or ancient artefacts. Instead, they're after rusty wreckage.Over the past decade, the...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II marks 60 years as monarch on Monday with a deliberately low-key programme of visits to eastern England, kicking off five months of diamond jubilee celebrations.The queen will visit the town hall in King's Lynn and then a nearby...
TWEETING or checking emails may be harder to resist than cigarettes and alcohol, according to researchers who tried to measure how well people could resist their desires.They even claim that while sleep and sex may be stronger urges, people are more...
JUST over six per cent of polled health personnel working in China have said current doctor-patient relationships are "harmonious", Health News, a health ministry affiliated newspaper, reported on Friday citing a survey.The survey, with a...
Monday, 6 February 2012
AN ACADEMICIAN in South Korea, a country known for its K-Pop culture, is a surprising admirer of the Malay Jawi script.This writer had the opportunity to talk to Prof Dr Kang Kyoung Seok of Busan University about his views on jawi script, which is...
THE children who live in this camp for Burmese (Myanmar) refugees have known no other life. Neither have many of their parents or their grandparents.Yet now, surprisingly rapid reforms and cease-fires under way in Myanmar are opening the prospects...
A BITTER family feud between Hong Kongers and their northern neighbours sparked by mainland China's increasing financial and political clout has led to an awkward debate about the former British colony's identity.The glittering southern financial...
THE new year, your birthday or the moment someone points out that you might have put on a few pounds since the last time they saw you these are usually the times when we start considering hitting the gym more regularly and eating right.But like...
MALARIA kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, a new investigation says.But there is also good news: Deaths from the...
Sunday, 5 February 2012
FORD will introduce the all-new production-ready B-Max (pic) compact at the Geneva Motor Show in March.Its return to Geneva, in full production form, comes just a year after the concept was unveiled at the Geneva show.Ford president and CEO Alan...
MOTHERS who push their toddlers to eat more at snack time may end up with slightly chubbier children by the age of three, according to a US study.Researchers whose findings appeared in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition said that such...
Exercise in groups!IF YOU frequent the Taman Rekreasi Tasek Lama on Saturday afternoons, you might catch sight of a group of people from the "Klinik Cara Hidup Sehat" ("Healthy Lifestyle Clinic"). In their neon bright t-shirts and even brighter...
A middle-aged Czech armed with a screwdriver deftly removes the copper letters spelling out the Hippocratic oath on a plaque at a Czech hospital, only to be nabbed red-handed by police.The authorities for once gained the upper hand over a growing...
A FLOCK of young whooping cranes stuck in Alabama have lost interest in following an ultra-light plane leading them to a Florida winter habitat, so the rare birds' human coaches prepared on Friday to drive them to a nearby marsh."Whether the...
VIETNAM'S graying Communist Party is all about control: It censors all media, squashes protests and imprisons those who dare to speak out against its one-party system. But today, as iPhone shops rub shoulders with Buddhist pagodas, cultural...
