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Will Medical Marijuana Soon Be A Reality In Thailand?
For long, one has debated the existence and usage of medical marijuana in Thailand but with little understanding of how frequently might it be used in the country. Now, it appears that there’s a sense of direction as to where…
Singapore Takes Drastic New Step To Curb Diabetes
Diabetes. That’s the one lifestyle disease all are complaining about and few are actually successful in avoiding or defeating. In an age where leading a sedentary lifestyle is about as common as a sneeze, there’s been a rise in lifestyle-oriented…
What Japan Teaches The Rest Of The World About Cleanliness?
Why is cleanliness in Japan such a big thing and what can it teach the rest of the world? Probably the mind furnishes a vibrant array of divergent emotions when the name of Japan is taken. You, almost at once,…
There’s More To China Than Just Being A Top Defense Spender
Here’s a matter of fact sans any errors or misinformation. China is more than just a top defense spender. But here’s what has commonly made news. If one were to revisit major developments concerning China from the perspective of a…
China Pledges Increased Impetus Toward Climate Efforts Post 2020
Everyone always wants to know and examine China’s involvement toward climate efforts knowing well that the world’s most populated country, one that has a resounding rate of manufacturing and industrialization may have an adverse impact on the environment. World’s largest…
Why Is Japan Going Wild For Luxury Toilet Paper?
There’s so much of history and vastness to it when it comes to a nation commonly described as the ‘land of the rising sun.’ Surely, it ought to be said that there’s more to Japan than meets the eye. This…
Tribute To Gina Lopez, One Of Phillippine’s Real Heroes And A True Eco- Champion Of Our Times
Gina Lopez- eco-fighter, ardent environmentalist, formerly, a member of the Phillippines government has lost her battle to cancer, aged 65. But no tribute to Gina Lopez can be rendered complete without mentioning the fact that in a time that favored…
It’s Not Just India Or Countries In Europe Facing Slow Growth, Thailand’s Struggling Too
Global economic slowdown: three separate, individual, and independent words that when used together combine to make a lot of sense and heck, should it also be said, send shivers down many an economy’s spine? We saw the worst of it…
Believe It Or Not, But Chinese Schoolchildren Are Being Made To Work Overnight To Produce Amazon Alexa Devices
Perhaps it’s about time we asked ourselves if are we willing to put everything on the line- including respect, dignity, and basic core human rights- in front of the incessant desire to be driven by consumerism? Because truth be told,…
Racism Against Muslims Is On The Rise in China
We are in an age where xenophobia is common and racial profiling is an epidemic in even the biggest democracies of the world. Take the great United States for example. What’s more? Today you could be the most well-educated individual…
China Is Increasing Its Strategic Interest Over Africa
Where it stands today, Africa is in the midst of an interesting period of renaissance. And among its partners of this new beacon called change is China! It wasn’t so long ago when the Chinese and African trade hit news…
What’s All The Mess About Suicides In Singapore?
It’s that part of the world where the talk often concerns itself with a vibrant economy and a thriving corporate culture. Commerce and infrastructure are the common currencies of this country. There’s hardly any time ever wasted on small talk.…
Can You Imagine How Many Smart Cities Is China Developing?
Legendary philosopher Confucious once famously said, “Under the sky, under the heavens, we are but one family!” And to that end, it suffices to say that if development is China’s understanding of the term family then, it is doing one…
When The Rarest Of The Rare Happened: A South Korean Who Defected To North Korea
Turn of the tide. The reverse order. Changing of the order. A polarising opposite. What you are going to read now perhaps beats any of these analogies? In what comes across as a rather strange, rather an absurdly strange order…
Forget Politics, Tensions with India, Imran Khan, and Whatnot! Pakistan’s Mango Pizza Is Making News
Let’s face facts. And these aren’t raw but hardcore facts. Pakistan is definitely among the most polarising nations out there. A day doesn’t go by when one of the most widely discussed countries in the Islamic world isn’t chided or…
To Promote Women’s Soccer In China, This Firm Is Pumping $145 Million
Akin to the commonly known 4Ps of Marketing- Price, Product, Promotion, and Packaging- could it be that the 3cs of China are Corporate, Corporatisation and Communism? It may surely be among the most powerful economies of the world, but it…
Brunei Decides To Punish Gay Sex and Adultery With Death By Stoning
A few hours ago, top Hollywood actor George Clooney decided to boycott Brunei-owned hotels. This was a serious move. To some, it may have read like, “Why.. what on earth happened there sir!?” Truth be told, the legendary star was…
Top Intel Chiefs from the US suggest North Korea may not actually give up on nuclear weapons
North Korea. The word is a bit of an anomaly to any kind of thinking that the world may be adhering to. Human Rights here are often human rights violation here. Freedom of choice, rather the freedom to conceive freedom…
Controversial Indian, Hamid Ansari, to be deported back to India from Pakistan
In the world of espionage, there are more enemies than friends. But that’s if you are a spy. Who’s to know who really Hamid Ansari is? Was he a spy of the Indian Security establishment caught in Pakistan or was…
Here’s something most fascinating about China in 2018 that you probably didn’t know!
To be frank, there’s something serious about China in this part of the world that there isn’t in any other part of the world. It’s not for nothing that China is among the strongest and most revered economies of the…
China’s facing an environmental threat or something like it as it embraced extremely cold weather
Typically when you think of cold weather, at least, for nine out of ten people, mountainous regions submerged in snow come to the mind. Probably, one also thinks of skiing amid some snowfall, kids playing around with snowflakes. Scenes of…
Is the Great Wall of China lying in ruins? What is being done about it?
China is, at least, for the better part of the world, an ever-bright symbol of economic power. Its economic power bolstered by the spirit of industrialization and enterprises have catapulted the Oriental Land to the attention of the entire world.…
Japan is one of the world’s quiet enigmas. Yet, underrated. Why?
Do not doubt the people of Japan; doubt not their intention to build and rebuild. It’s as much the land that embraced the Buddha as it birthed the Samurais. Nature may shake it, people may betray it, and the eternal…
Are you aware of the Chinese products banned in India and the items India imports?
It isn’t uncommon to note economic ties between two countries soaring their bi-lateral relations further. For relations to prosper, a lot depends or rests on the cordiality and normalcy of relations between nations. The greater the economic ties, the better the…