Drink fashionablyHere’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 weatherHow climate change became the currency that transformed a vulnerable community. 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 edgeThe speaking detectiveThe phonetics professor who tracks down criminals using voice recordings.
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. But fear not, salvation has arrived in the rectangular shape of the Cybertecture Mirror. Damming LaosThe 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. 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 |







