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In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period. The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about...

The MH370 tragedy has left us with many enigmas, but it has also revealed to the world a fact Malaysians have always known: an administration produced by an ethnocratic system will be mediocre or incompetent. In trying to understand how and why Malaysia operates as it does, it is essential to...

I am ok with it but not so for some others.

KEEP A BAG OF FLOUR IN YOUR FRIDGE Impressive! Why did we never hear of this before?! I've always just run it under the cold water tap. Some time ago I was cooking some corn and stuck my fork in the boiling water to see if corn was ready. I missed and my hand went into the boiling water...

Secret path for Chinese on property buying spree A previously unannounced government program is helping individuals to transfer their yuan and convert it into dollars or other currencies overseas. For years, wealthy Chinese have been transferring billions worth of their money overseas...

Shanghai rollers! From £33m houses to £11m Warhols, suddenly it's China 's new millionaires who are spending eye-watering sums and buying up Britain By Simon Mills Talk to any upscale, London-based wine merchant and he’ll tell you two very important things about his rich Chinese...

a true story of tragedy and triumph *Author Unknown Brothers Michael and Chris were both born in the early 1960s and grew up in a mostly black neighborhood in Richmond, California, right outside of San Francisco. Both boys were well behaved in school and brought home mostly A's on their...

If you run naked around a tree at around 87km/hr, there is a possibility that you may fuck yourself. Albert Einstein.

Lovers of the English language might enjoy this.... There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that word is "UP . " It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do...

For the brothers who've left, hope this helps a little. Singaporean cuisine is making inroads all over the world in places ranging from Perth in Australia to Dordrecht in the Netherlands January 17, 2013 Fancy some kaya toast in New York, or sambal scallops in Copenhagen? Or perhaps you...

New Zealand’s tourism and fair trading authorities are looking into the actions of a rogue tour-operator who promised a group of Chinese tourists the best sightseeing in New Zealand � and then took them instead to several public parks. A promised grand buffet Christmas dinner turned out to be...

The Girl With the Apples August 1942. Piotrkow, Poland The sky was gloomy that morning as we waited anxiously. All the men, women and children of Piotrkow's Jewish ghetto had been herded into a square. Word had gotten around that we were being moved. My father had only recently died...

BANANAS Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is...