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A longtail macaque plays with a plastic bag in Lopburi, Thailand, in June 2020. Photos: AFP
Environment 03 Feb 2021
Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature" according to a wide-...
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TechnologySponsored 02 Feb 2021
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. introduced Galaxy S21, Galaxy S21+ and Galaxy S21 Ultra, the latest flagship devices...
After nearly a year of solitude and crushing restrictions, people are singing chanteys on social media, recalling a more exciting way of life, a world of sea air and pirates, of people singing in unison. Photo: jonnystewartbass/TikTok
Technology 28 Jan 2021
If you’ve perused social media in recent weeks, you may have come across people singing chanteys, which were work...
The logo of Microsoft is displayed outside its European headquarters in Paris, Friday, January 8. Photo: AP
As the pandemic raged through the US, Microsoft's business continued chugging ahead and beat Wall Street...
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TechnologySponsored 27 Jan 2021
Viber, one of the world’s leading apps for free and easy communication, has recorded an overall increase in app...
A woman from one of the Mosuo farming communities in southwest China. The Mosuo were participants in a groundbreaking study examining gender-based health disparities. Photo: Siobhan Mattison
Women 27 Jan 2021
Gender disparities in health are not a phenomenon unique to the pandemic. Long before COVID-19, women made less...
Htan Pi, a community health volunteer with Medical Action Myanmar, takes a blood sample from a patient to test for malaria in Satpalaw Shaung village, Lahe township, Sagaing Region, in February 2020. Photo: AFP
Focus 26 Jan 2021
Myanmar needs special strategies to meet its goal of eliminating the mosquito-borne disease malaria by 2030, a...
Mr. Nelson Ni, Chief Operating Officer of Vivo Myanmar. photo: Supplied
TechnologySponsored 25 Jan 2021
Earlier this year, vivo first introduced the brand new vivo Y51 in Y series. The Y51 is designed to appeal to...
A diver collects discarded fishing nets off the coast of Chonburi province, Thailand, on December 18. Photos: AFP
Environment 25 Jan 2021
Underwater divers in plastic-choked waters off the coast of Thailand snip through discarded nets tangled around a...
Without reliable access to energy, families cannot light their homes, power appliances, or study after dark. Photo: Rockefeller Foundation
Opinion 22 Jan 2021
No country on earth has achieved meaningful development for its people without mass access to reliable and...
US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks during a COVID-19 memorial at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington on Tuesday. Photo: AP
Women 21 Jan 2021
For more than two centuries, the top ranks of American power have been dominated by men – almost all of them white...
A Thai woman identified only by her first name, Anchan, right, talks to a friend as she arrives at the Criminal Court in Bangkok on Tuesday. Photo: AP
Asean Focus 20 Jan 2021
A court in Thailand on Tuesday sentenced a former civil servant to a record prison term of 43 years and six months...

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