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(Southeast Asia Globe) – Sara Malakul Lane began acting in Thai soap operas when she was just 15 years old. Although she always dreamed of featuring in a romantic kissing scene à la Hollywood, she ended up in eight rape scenes during her ten-year acting career in Thailand. “The dialogues...
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(CBC) China is fast becoming a scientific force to be reckoned with, says a new report published by Nature. The list, which ranks the world’s institutions and countries according to their scientific output, puts China second only to the United States. The rankings are based on the number of high profile...
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(Reuters) – North Korea has backed presumptive U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a propaganda website praising him as “a prescient presidential candidate” who can liberate Americans living under daily fear of nuclear attack by the North. Conservative commentator Bill ‘o Reilly: “Did it surprise you that these tyrants...
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(Techcrunch) China’s Didi Chuxing and Uber have now both confirmed that Didi has agreed to buy Uber’s separate business in China — Uber China — as a path to trying to get the two unprofitable on-demand transportation businesses into the black. The deal had been heavily speculated earlier today. Didi’s explanation of the...
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(Today) – The Sultan (of the Malaysian state of Johor) has urged Malays to retain their culture instead of trying to imitate the Arabs, amid growing conservatism among Muslims and adoption of Arabic cultural practices. Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Sultan Iskandar told English language daily The Star that he preferred using...
(Southeast Asia Globe) – Sara Malakul Lane began acting in Thai soap operas when she was just 15 years old. Although she always dreamed of featuring in a romantic kissing scene à la Hollywood, she ended up in eight rape scenes during her ten-year acting career in Thailand. “The dialogues...
(CBC) China is fast becoming a scientific force to be reckoned with, says a new report published by Nature. The list, which ranks the world’s institutions and countries according to their scientific output, puts China second only to the United States. The rankings are based on the number of high profile...
(Reuters) – North Korea has backed presumptive U.S. Republican nominee Donald Trump, with a propaganda website praising him as “a prescient presidential candidate” who can liberate Americans living under daily fear of nuclear attack by the North. Conservative commentator Bill ‘o Reilly: “Did it surprise you that these tyrants...
(Techcrunch) China’s Didi Chuxing and Uber have now both confirmed that Didi has agreed to buy Uber’s separate business in China — Uber China — as a path to trying to get the two unprofitable on-demand transportation businesses into the black. The deal had been heavily speculated earlier today. Didi’s explanation of the...
(Today) – The Sultan (of the Malaysian state of Johor) has urged Malays to retain their culture instead of trying to imitate the Arabs, amid growing conservatism among Muslims and adoption of Arabic cultural practices. Sultan Ibrahim Ibni Sultan Iskandar told English language daily The Star that he preferred using...