Rivers contribute to transport, tourism, hydropower and resources including fish and freshwater. Yet excessive drought, dam-building and other development can ruin rivers. That is happening to the Mekong River, which flows from Tibet to the South China Sea. The Lower Mekong winds through Cambodia,...
Damned by humans: Laos population in Attopeu suffered from a collapsed dam in 2018, and elsewhere sandbanks fill the Mekong River
CAN THO CITY, MEKONG DELTA: The swirling currents of the once mighty Mekong, shrunk by drought and increasingly...
Smartphones and social media by their very nature are like slot machines, enticing users to check for updates and news, explains Tristan Harris for Spiegel Online, describing intermittent variable rewards and need for social approval. The technology, like magicians, gives users the illusion of...
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About 30 million Kurds live throughout the Middle East in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. The ethnic group represents about 13 percent of Turkey’s population and at least 7 percent of Syrians, and the United States has long backed Kurds fighting extremists in Syria. Turkey and its Kurdish...
Broken peace: Kurds celebrated, hoping for peace after Turkey and the Kurdish PKK agreed to a ceasefire in 2013, but heightened tensions and urban warfare soon followed in cities like Suriçi
NEW HAVEN: In 2015, the rising of Rojava, a Kurdish region...
Middle-class families increasingly depend on domestic help for cooking and cleaning services, eldercare and childcare. Almost 70 million domestic workers, most women, toil around the globe. The global supply of labor for work deemed unskilled is huge. Wages are low, and private homes are the...
Maid to work: A foreign domestic helper multi-tasks in Singapore, and domestic workers in Hong Kong protest work conditions and regulations that favor employers over workers
NEW HAVEN: The 67 million domestic workers worldwide are the unsung...
Cities and nations inspire, not when their citizens fear and denigrate immigrants, but instead welcome the newcomers’ skills and ideas and celebrate their rising influence. “In a world where terrorism and Islamophobia is spreading rapidly, London showed its inherent multicultural, diverse character...
In a world where terrorism and Islamophobia is spreading rapidly, London showed its inherent multicultural, diverse character when it elected the first Muslim Mayor, Sadiq Khan. He won the maximum number of votes garnered by any other mayor of the...
Boasting uninhibited women, lush tropical backdrops, and cheap production costs, Brazil has become a prime destination for adult film outsourcing. But Brazil also has the second highest incidence of HIV and AIDS in the western hemisphere. Last month, the porn industry's increasingly global...
SAO PAULO - Flush with dollars, American porn film directors swoop into Brazil for its exotic and uninhibited women, dazzling tropical backdrops and cheap production costs -- a phenomenon that has turned South America's...
“伪娘”是最近几年在中国和日本新产生的词汇，指的是喜欢扮女装的男性，尤其是青年男性。在日语当中，伪娘被称为“男の娘”，“娘”在日语中有少女的意思，所以，“男の娘”翻译成汉语就是“男少女”。在蒋丰的笔下，日本的“伪娘”之风有愈演愈烈之势。首先，在20岁到30岁的男性里，有57%的人回答每天使用洗面奶，有35%的人坚持每天修眉，有18%的人每天打粉；其次，从2006年开始，大大小小的“伪娘”社团宣告成立，他们除了每年举办活动之外，还创办杂志月刊，向全社会公开发行；而且，随着“伪娘”文化的流行，它还带动了相关产业的发展，除了动漫业，还有以“伪娘”为主题的俱乐部、服装店、餐厅、...
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Leaders of Japan and the United States, the leading economies that had negotiated the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, announced plans to pursue stronger bilateral ties. “Importantly, the joint statement also allowed for Japan to continue pursuing the TPP, even after [Donald] Trump’s January 23...
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