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Japan’s surprising ‘Western’ cuisine

Japan’s surprising ‘Western’ cuisine What makes yoshoku so intriguing is that the dishes have hardly evolved, making experiencing the cuisine like eating in a time warp back to the late 19th or early 20th Century. By David Farley 15 July 2020     Three truths and a...

The saboteurs you can hire to end your relationship

The saboteurs you can hire to end your relationship By Christine Ro 3rd August 2020 In Japan, you can pay private agents called ‘wakaresaseya’ to seduce your spouse or their partner.   In 2010, Takeshi Kuwabara was sentenced for the murder of his lover, Rie Isohata....

What makes people stop caring?

  By Tiffanie Wen 1st July 2020 The death of an individual can have a powerful effect on our emotions, but as numbers rise so does our indifference. Why?     “If I look at the mass I will never act. If I look at the one, I will.” These are the words of a woman...

Coronavirus: The week when everything changed for Trump

Coronavirus: The week when everything changed for Trump By Jon Sopel  North America editor 24 July 2020  GETTY IMAGES It’s as though in January 2017, Donald Trump was given a shiny, new car. The best, most beautiful car the world has ever seen. And in July 2020,...

Lý do khiến người Phần Lan luôn trung thực

Why Finnish people tell the truth In Finland, people are assumed to be honest all the time, and trust is implicit unless proven otherwise. By Srishti Chaudhary 16 June 2020 It was December, and I’d just arrived in Helsinki. Fresh snow lined the roads and I frantically...

Người phương Tây ‘không biết dùng nghệ’?

India’s original “turmeric latte”   By Charukesi Ramadurai 24 June 2020    Indian haldi doodh is warm milk mixed with turmeric powder and sweetened with sugar (Credit: Edalin/Alamy)   The West has discovered turmeric only in the last decade or so and has lost no time...

Vì sao con người mê mẩn thuyết âm mưu?

What we can learn from conspiracy theories   Zaria Gorvett 25th May 2020 From political upheavals to anxieties about sex, technology and women, it turns out conspiracy theories can tell us a lot about what’s going on in our societies – and how to fix them. In 331 BC,...

Will coronavirus change Germans’ love of cash?

Will coronavirus change Germans’ love of cash? By Krystin Arneson 21st May 2020 ‘Cash is king’ has long been the motto of German consumers and small business owners – but Covid-19 is bringing rapid change. Germany might be known for its proud culture of technological...

Why we should all be wearing face masks

By Richard Gray 5th May 2020 With some countries already emerging from lockdown, can wearing face masks in public help to keep coronavirus infection rates from rising again? Face masks are a symbol of the pandemic era – a visual metaphor for the tiny, unseen viral foe...