Focus
A prairie power struggle
CRAZY Alice, a half-tonne bison, likes to feast on grass and roll in the dirt, but her deepest attachment might be to a certain corner of the Montana prairie – when her handlers once moved her herd to a different pasture, she tried to break out and go back.
Breaking point at Mount Fuji
JUST after sunrise on a cloudless spring day, Junichi Horiuchi, wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers cap and hot-pink gloves and carrying a walking stick, was on the hunt.
Bacterial fix for a burning problem
RICE farmers Siriporn and Amnat Taidee used to burn their padi fields between plantings – a common method of clearing crop residue partly blamed for toxic smog that blankets much of Thailand every spring.
Thailand’s red card roulette
THE crowd started trickling in to a mall on the outskirts of Bangkok around 7am on a recent Thursday. Hundreds of people showed up, most of them men.
Survival at Sudan’s deadly new front line
IN an overcrowded camp in Sudan's Blue Nile state, Awatif Awad has been fighting to keep her five children alive as the region becomes a new front line in the country's three-year war.
Billion-dollar gamble in Pakistan’s minefield
STANDING in the Oval Office in September, Pakistan's army chief gave US President Donald Trump a wooden box filled with minerals and gems – a nod to the lucrative deals US companies could make in Pakistan, where mining has long been dominated by China.
Rage bait: Manufactured outrage online, real-world impact
Don't bite the bait.
Rage and roll: The rise of rage bait marketing
A look inside the systems that reward anger on social media.
Middle East conflict crisis: Making it clearer
As the conflict in the Gulf continues and shows little sign of easing, it is even more important for Malaysia's government to communicate more clearly and consistently.
Make social media social again
America's Gen Z begs legislators: We need regulations to call big tech companies to account.
