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...“The Battle of the Spies”, the latest episode of Anita Anand and Willie Dalrymple’s Empire podcast....
Military regime is failing to contain armed resistance movement that is attracting recruits
...While some who fled Myanmar over the past month have returned, others have used people smugglers to cross from Karen to Mae Sot, and blended into the border town’s large Burmese population....
...John Reed is the FT’s south-east Asia correspondent and Bangkok bureau chief Follow @FTMag on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...Thai PBS, Thailand’s public broadcaster, confirmed that about 3,000 people had arrived in the north-western Mae Hong Son province....
...Textile designer Ellen Mae Williams reinterprets the Oxfordshire landscape in vibrant abstract spatters and brush marks, using food waste from onions and avocados, as well as plant dyes such as chlorophyll...
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...Nowhere is that made clearer than in people’s attitudes towards the vaccine,” says Reed Tuckson, a doctor who works with Fitzpatrick in the Black Coalition Against Covid-19 campaign group....
...“Listen, boys,” said Selznick to Greene and Reed, “who the hell is going to a film called The Third Man?”...
...The drama has been covered by scores of journalists and camera teams from Thailand and abroad, who have descended on the normally quiet border town of Mae Sai....
Members of football team were trapped for more than 2 weeks
...Volunteers brought home-cooked food and drinks or hauled equipment for the rescuers and international press pack that descended on Mae Sai near the Myanmar border....
...Follow John Reed on Twitter: @JohnReedwrites...
...Narongsak Osottanakorn told a press briefing in Mae Sai, northern Thailand, that divers had been sent back into the Tham Luang cave at 11am, a day after the operation to rescue the 12 missing boys and their...
...Elsewhere Bowie’s Great Pretender and the set of covers on his Brass Fantasy album Avant Pop are joyous — Willie Nelson’s “Crazy” a highlight....
...The crowning moment of Anna Mae Hays’ career was sealed with a kiss....
...A few blocks up the road stands the presidential palace; a little further on, cattle can be found grazing and fishermen running their nets in a reed-strewn lagoon....
...The air, not yet cool, had a tired, end-of-the-day smell of damp earth and reeds. The day’s haul amounted to six grayling and five brown trout: not bad....
...At the same time, the federal government is shifting course on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , announcing plans to use the mortgage giants to expand credit rather than reducing their outsize role in the housing...
...“Three Women” found White at the piano loosely revisiting an old blues track, Blind Willie McTell’s “Lord, Send Me an Angel Down”, while “Would You Fight for My Love?”...
...Other Democrats who are more senior than Mr Brown on the committee, such as Jack Reed of Rhode Island, are expected to pursue other leadership roles....
...The second part consists of mortgage guarantees – the UK equivalent of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the US....
...“It’s important to focus the attention of the public and the attention of Congress on one of the major impediments to a more robust recovery”, said Jack Reed, Democratic Senator from Rhode Island....
...Administration officials had been under pressure from Jack Reed, US Senator, since at least September to fund principal reductions undertaken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, aides said....
...He cites John Reed, the former Citigroup chief executive, who also hankers after a simpler model, as his authority on the subject....
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