Myanmar coup: Jailed activist s daughter looks back
24 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Organising rallies, speaking up, translating, raising funds - overseas Burmese like Ei Mon are supporting the Myanmar protests from afar. Photo / Dean Purcell
Organising rallies, speaking up, translating, raising funds - overseas Burmese like Ei Mon are supporting the Myanmar protests from afar. Photo / Dean Purcell
Ei Mon Thinn Kyu s first memories of her father are prison visits.
Born a few months after his arrest, she turned 16 the year he was released. My mother kept a tiny newspaper clipping saying my father was arrested for his political involvement, said the 32-year-old medical doctor from Myanmar s second largest city Mandalay, and currently a postgraduate student in Auckland.
Sideswipe: February 25: Dining out on Trump
24 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
3 minutes to read Donald Trump only visited one DC restaurant in his four-year term. And it was the steakhouse in his own hotel . when the star appeared, you had to stick to the script. A Standard Operating Procedure document, recently obtained by Washingtonian, outlined step by step exactly what to do and what to say anytime Trump dined at BLT Prime, the hotel restaurant. As soon as Trump was seated, the server had to discreetly present a mini bottle of Purell hand sanitiser. (This applied long before Covid, mind you.) Next, cue dialogue: Good (time of day) Mr President. Would you like your Diet Coke with or without ice? the server was instructed to recite. A polished tray with chilled bottles and highball glasses was already prepared for either response. Directions for pouring the soda were detailed in a process no fewer than seven steps long and illustrated with four photo exhibits. The b
Sky TV profit jumps 234 per cent, price increases on table after June
22 Feb, 2021 07:41 PM
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Sky has reported a 234 per cent jump in net profit to $39.6 million for the six months to December 30, in line with guidance, on the back of an 80 per cent spike in its streaming business, a stabilisation of its satellite business and cost-cutting.
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Sky s total subscriber numbers bulged to 990,000 in June 2020 as it brought on 154,000 streamers with its acquisition of Spark s Lightbox, which was merged with Neon. Sky warned it would not be able to make all of them pay for Neon, but today announced that one-third of hard-bundled Lightbox customers are paying Neon subs.
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