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Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen Two films shown on Channel 4's Dispatches won recognition at the Rory Peck awards last night. Orphans of Burma's Cyclone,...
by Chaim Estulin and Phoebe Leung This article is provided to FT.com readers by Debtwire—the most informed news service available for financial professionals in fixed income markets across the world. www.debtwire.com...
By Kevin Brown in Singapore and Tim Johnston in Bangkok AirAsia, South East Asia’s largest low-cost airline, is considering seeking a secondary listing in Thailand, its chief executive said on Friday. Tony Fernandes, founder of...
I'm taking next week off, mostly. I plan on posting a reaction to the Saturday night Senate vote - will I be borrowing my headline from the Nixon era or the Bay City Rollers ? We shall see, we shall see. I'll be flying to...
By Tim Johnston in Vientiane, Laos From the window of his office in the Laotian capital Vientiane, Jeremy Bird looks down on a lazy arc of the Mekong river about half way along its 4,400km journey from its turbulent headwaters...
Our resident expert solves your travel conundrums. This week: cruising with a disability; theft at Johannesburg; seeing the Northern Lights; and visiting the Canary Islands without flying. 'There's a great deal of debate over...
The Mercado de San Miguel is ‘a southern European version of Borough Market in London’ Madrid’s municipal covered markets are a vital part of the city’s life but they are rarely glamorous, and normally housed in ugly cement...
O-levels could be reintroduced to English schools as growing numbers of pupils take the traditional exams overseas. By Graeme Paton, Education Editor Teenagers will be allowed to switch to the qualifications, which were...
Sybase 365 has been selected by 11 mobile operators in Asia to provide international SMS, MMS and GRX (mobile data roaming) services. The operators include Grameenphone, Smart Mobile, TMI Cambodia, Sampoerna, SureM, Unitel,...
In his earlier years, all Tom Waits needed to animate a live show was a piano and a standard lamp, the latter casting a suitably sepulchral gloom over his rough-hewn crooning. In those days, he was most renowned as a lyricist...
