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Oped, Published on 11/11/2023
» In the American game of baseball, the defending team must cover all bases; first, second and third. No matter how good and fast a player is, one person "can't cover all bases," as the expression goes. Cover one, and the ball would be hit to another. You need three players to cover first, second and third base. The best and most competent player can't successfully cover all three dispersed bases. That's common sense.
Asia focus, Published on 19/03/2018
» Shinsotsu-ikkatsu-saiyo, the tradition of simultaneous recruitment and employment of new graduates by companies, has long been unique to Japan and South Korea, before the latter abolished the practice in 2010. But in the world's third largest economy it is so embedded in the culture, who's to say it's not working for the country and its people?
Oped, Postbag, Published on 13/01/2018
» Re: "Officials 'must capture Yingluck'," (BP, Jan 12). We should all extend our sympathy to the government for having to resist pressure from various sources to pursue extradition proceedings against Yingluck Shinawatra.
Published on 20/10/2017
» CANBERRA: The last mass-produced car designed and built in Australia rolled off the General Motors production line in the industrial city of Adelaide on Friday as the country reluctantly bade farewell to its automobile manufacturing industry.