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Jul 24th 2021TO SYDNEYSIDERS, most of whom have lived freely all through the pandemic, it feels as if the virus has simply acquired going. They're within the midst of their worst outbreak because the spring of 2020. It started final month…

Jul 24th 2021YANGONFOR AROUND an hour on the afternoon of June 4th, as on so many earlier events this 12 months, the web was out throughout Myanmar. For opponents of the nation’s ruling army junta, the rationale was clear: the generals had…

Jul 24th 2021almatyPEOPLE TEND to affix relationship apps to search out love. However social-media customers in Kazakhstan swipe proper for much less romantic companies. On an array of platforms hustlers now do a roaring trade in fake…

Jul 18th 2021MUMBAITHE SYMPTOMS are a peculiar combine. They embrace sluggishness, basic malaise, despair, and an incapacity to focus or to work. It is type of like long covid. Besides that the sufferer of this specific type of delayed…

Jul 15th 2021SINCE WINNING the presidency in a landslide practically two years in the past, Gotabaya Rajapaksa has apprehensive not that he has too many relations in authorities, however that he has too few. One of many 72-year-old’s elder…

Jul 15th 2021TOKYOWHEN THE world’s greatest athletes collect for the Olympics each 4 years, they do much more than run, soar and swim. In a memoir printed after the earlier Tokyo video games, in 1964, Daybreak Fraser, an Australian swimmer,…

Jul 15th 2021TOKYOCLOUDS GATHERED over Komazawa stadium in Tokyo as the Olympic torch arrived on July ninth. Due to the pandemic, the conventional public relay was changed by a small ceremony behind the stadium’s closed doorways. Protesters…

Jul 10th 2021MANILAIN THE COLD WAR over the nice and cozy waters of the South China Sea, one combatant, the Philippines, has found a brand new weapon for protecting its adversaries out of the areas it claims: the voices of girls. On June…

Jul 11th 2021SINGAPORETRI WAHYONO was attempting to maintain it collectively. It was rush hour on a weeknight in late June in Yogyakarta, a metropolis on the Indonesian island of Java, however the streets have been nearly empty. It had been…

Jul 10th 2021TOKYOELECTIONS IN TOKYO typically foretell nationwide ones. In 2009 the opposition Democratic Celebration of Japan triumphed within the capital earlier than sweeping the ruling Liberal Democratic Celebration (LDP) from energy…