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Jul 29 2019 | 11:13 amAmerican 16-year-old becomes solo Fortnite champ, winning $3 mn
New York: American Kyle Giersdorf, alias “Bugha,” became the first Fortnite world champion in the solo division, winning $3 million at age 16. Originally from Pennsylvania, the young gamer...
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Jul 29 2019 | 11:07 amForced labour to high finance: Hong Kong investor’s unlikely journey
Hong Kong: Exiled to the Gobi Desert at the age of 15, Weijian Shan’s days were marked by gnawing hunger and back-breaking forced labour. But his sense of hope was kept alive by an unlikely sour...
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Jul 24 2019 | 03:34 pmUS spacecraft’s solar sail successfully deploys
Houston: A new spacecraft’s solar sail successfully deployed Tuesday one month after launch, as it journeys around earth carrying a small satellite. LightSail 2, as the spacecraft is called, wil...
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Jul 21 2019 | 03:49 pmOne giant leap: 50 years ago, humanity’s first steps on the Moon
New York: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind”: it was with these words that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the Moon 50 years ago, an oc...
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- US spacecraft’s solar sail successfully deploys
- One giant leap: 50 years ago, humanity’s first steps on the Moon
- Washington first US state to legalize human composting
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Features
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From Asia to Africa: Nepali, South Asian women trafficked to Kenya’s Bollywood-style dance bars
By Nita Bhalla Mombasa: Nepali beautician Sheela didn’t think twice about ditching her salon job when she received a call offering seven times her salary to work as a cultural dancer at a nightclub in Kenya.
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Sex workers give red light to leaving famed Amsterdam district
Amsterdam: Bathed in red neon light, hundreds of prostitutes ply their trade from behind windows in the narrow canalside streets of Amsterdam – and that’s how they want it to stay.
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Forced labour to high finance: Hong Kong investor’s unlikely journey
Hong Kong: Exiled to the Gobi Desert at the age of 15, Weijian Shan’s days were marked by gnawing hunger and back-breaking forced labour. But his sense of hope was kept alive by an unlikely source — insecticide manuals. Now one of Asia...
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Deaths rise as Nepal issues more permits for Mount Everest
Kathmandu: Scaling Mount Everest was a dream few realized before Nepal opened its side of the mountain to commercial climbing a half-century ago. This year the government issued a record number of permits, leading to traffic jams on the world’s hig...
Opinion
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Biodiversity and sustainable tourism in the Hindu Kush Himalaya
By Janita Gurung and Anu Kumari Lama Biodiversity and tourism linkages Biodiversity is the basis for many tourism activities in th...
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Brexit, a sign of anti-elite revolt: Analysts
PARIS: It was Britain’s poorer and less-educated citizens — angry at not having shared in the economic benefits of a n...
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Aug 09 2019 | 12:37 pmFrom Asia to Africa: Nepali, South Asian women trafficked to Kenya’s Bollywood-style dance bars
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Aug 04 2019 | 04:04 pmSex workers give red light to leaving famed Amsterdam district
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Jul 29 2019 | 11:13 am
American 16-year-old becomes solo Fortnite champ, winning $3 mn
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Jul 29 2019 | 11:07 am
Forced labour to high finance: Hong Kong investor’s unlikely journey