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Shade runner

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A Singapore firm is creating ‘green cities’ amidst modern metropoles.


It is as if a bold reversal of fortunes has taken place some time in the future.

 

Drink fashionably

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Here’s Johnnie! It could be time to throw away those dusty quarter-full bottles that currently constitute your ‘liquor cabinet’.

At over two metres tall and crafted from fancy-sounding materials such as natural shagreen leather and Australian lace wood, as well as brushed stainless steel, the Johnnie Walker Blue Label private bar costs a little over $157,000.

 

Weathering the weather

How climate change became the currency that transformed a vulnerable community.

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The recent flooding that has held much of Cambodia in its deadly grip destroyed more than 190,000 hectares of rice fields and killed at least 247 people. An estimated 1.2 million Cambodians have been affected by the natural disaster that exposed the country’s lack of disaster risk preparedness.

 

On the edge

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Southeast Asia Globe’s series on the region’s most endangered animals continues.

An accomplished hunter, the fishing cat, Prionailurus viverrinus, is perhaps the only feline named after what it does. 

 

The speaking detective

The phonetics professor who tracks down criminals using voice recordings.

Full StoryAngelika Braun is a forensic expert of a different kind. Rather than fingerprints or traces of blood, she deals with voice recordings of bank robbers, kidnappers, terrorists and other criminals to gain clues to their identity and other information.

 

The fairest of them all?

Modern life. It's just go, go, go. The pressure to keep appointments but still look your best is perhaps now greater than ever before.

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But fear not, salvation has arrived in the rectangular shape of the Cybertecture Mirror.

 

Damming Laos

The Mekong River Commission will make a decision at the end of this month whether the construction of a controversial dam in Laos will go ahead.Full Story

The $3.5 billion Xayaburi dam is one of 11 planned for the lower Mekong River and would generate 1,260 megawatts of electricity, 95% of which is expected to be bought by Thailand.

 

Breaking the fever

Scientists bring their ground-breaking fight against dengue to Southeast Asia.

Full StorySophal Heng lies limply in her hospital bed, the IV drip in her arm slowly re-energising her drained body. She complains of crippling joint and muscle pains and a debilitating headache.

 
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