It’s hard to find drinking water in La Guajira, an arid peninsula in northern Colombia, where drought and overuse are sucking wells and small reservoirs dry.
When Tinder, a mobile dating app, launched on college campuses in America in 2012, it quickly became a hit. Although online dating had been around since Match.com, a website for lonely hearts, launched in 1995, it had long struggled to shed an image of desperation. But Tinder, by letting users sift through photos of countless potential dates with a simple swipe, made it easy and fun.
I was a messy Olympics fan. During the Games in Paris, I rooted for several national delegations. Because I was born in the Philippines, I cheered for the Filipinos. I’m ethnic Chinese, so I was thrilled by the achievements of China, Hong Kong and, uhm, Chinese Taipei. I’m an American citizen, so I’m happy when Team USA is No. 1 (or 2 or 3). I live in London, so whenever the UK medalled, I experienced frissons of delight.
At the Paris Olympics, it has been hard not to break into a sweat, even for those not competing. Climate change made its presence felt as temperatures rose 3 deg C or 4 deg C above what they were the last time Paris hosted the Games a century ago.
At the Paris Olympics, it has been hard not to break into a sweat, even for those not competing. Climate change made its presence felt as temperatures rose 3 deg C or 4 deg C above what they were the last time Paris hosted the Games a century ago.
Recently, many students in Singapore faced problems with their personal learning devices (PLDs) as a result of two incidents affecting the Mobile Guardian app (
Even US President Joe Biden’s most strident critics must concede that there is something admirable about the way his administration has effectively and quite swiftly – in just three-plus years – refashioned the way America’s decades-old military alliances in Asia work.