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Though not sophisticated, finicky or elaborate like Bat Trang or Phu Lang potteries, the clay pot making village in Vietnam’s Tru Son commune, Do Luong district, Nghe An province is as rustic as the name itself.

The Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday celebrated the renovation of the historic heart of its book trade, in the latest sign of an artistic renaissance after decades of conflict and strife.

The world’s most powerful space telescope on December 25 blasted off into orbit, headed to an outpost 1.5 million kilometres from Earth, after several delays caused by technical hitches.

As EUROPE rang in the New Year 20 years ago, 12 of its nations said goodbye to their deutschmarks, French francs, liras and pesetas as they welcomed the euro single currency. On January 1, 2002, euro notes and coins became a reality for some 300 million people from Athens to Dublin, three years after the currency was formally launched in “virtual” form.

Rainbows are a rarity during Cambodia’s coolest months of December and January, but multi-disciplinary artist Vuth Lyno has conceptualised one of his own that he says represents diversity and unity and brought it into being at Odom Garden on Norodom Boulevard using clever and skillful technical artistry that reveals the full spectrum of colours through sunlight and water droplets.

At the end of October, a presidential candidate stirred up old memories when proposing to send corrupt politicians to Colombia’s notorious former island prison of Gorgona. No one took the threat seriously but it did pique interest about a little known part of Colombia’s history that could be compared to Alcatraz or Robben Island.

Human behaviour is a tricky thing to reliably control or predict. Some people will respond better to incentives and rewards – the proverbial carrot – while others are immune to such bribery and only do the right thing out of fear of the stick (proverbial or not). Most fall somewhere on a spectrum in-between and can be influenced by either or even both at the same time.

Though not sophisticated, finicky or elaborate like Bat Trang or Phu Lang potteries, the clay pot making village in Vietnam’s Tru Son commune, Do Luong district, Nghe An province is as rustic as the name itself. This is the only village in Nghe An making earthen pots, so it is also called “earthen pot village”.

Holiday travel headaches and safety worries swelled on Sunday with thousands of flights cancelled, events scrapped and new Omicron cases soaring, as people wrap up Christmas celebrations bruised by a resurgent Covid-19 pandemic.

The Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has been installing a suite of tools and applications to measure the quality of cellular service in the capital, especially in gated communities known locally as Borey, minister Chea Vandeth confirmed.