Twitcher tours: why birdwatching in Cambodia is expected to take flight in a post-Covid world
Sikol San freezes mid-sentence. The guide s eyes dart towards the tuft of a coconut tree on the edge of a rice field. He adjusts his spotting scope to hone in on a small black bird with a forked tail perched on a palm.
The co-founder of the Cambodia Bird Guide Association (CBGA), Sikol San starts relating details about the migratory black drongo, which spends September to May in Cambodia. It is one of 40 to 60 species of bird regularly seen at this rural patch of land on the outskirts of Siem Reap, he says.
The accents of Hong Kong’s Eurasian, Portuguese communities are dying out – and with them a rich local culture, too
Cantonese first-language inter-ference with non-native English speakers pronunciation is widely known, and unconsciously amusing up-and-down inflections have been the butt of cruel humour for decades. Examples are legion; elision of L and R sounds into flied lice and the like are weary staples for racist-tinged humorists .
Less remembered are the distinctive accents - now largely vanished - of Hong Kong s minority communities, for whom English was (mostly) a first tongue, yet heavily influenced by other languages. Until broader educational opportunities in recent decades dramatically reduced this speech variant, most Eurasian and local Portuguese English speakers had a distinctive, immediately recognisable sound , usually more deprecated than celebrated among themselves.
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US President Joe Biden and the leaders of three major Asia-Pacific countries, an alliance known as the "Quad", discussed "aggression" and "coercion" against members of the group by China in their first summit meeting on Friday. Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, meeting by means of large flat-screen televisions, discussed China's "coercion of Australia,.
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Hong Kong vaccines: information overload, lack of context provoking ‘unnecessary’ fears of Sinovac jabs, experts say A health care worker prepares a dose of China s Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine. Photo: Reuters
Hongkongers fears over the safety of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines - exacerbated by recent medical emergencies involving people who received the shots - are an unnecessary side effect of broad reporting guidelines and a failure by authorities to put the events in the proper context, health experts have said.
The city has experienced an apparent plunge in public confidence in the Chinese-made Sinovac vaccine since the first death of a recent recipient of the jab was revealed last week. Reports of two more deaths and three other people requiring intensive care after receiving the shots surfaced in the past week.