Bangkok castles rise as wealth reshapes city frontières
In Bangkok a new development spree shows ultra rich buyers paying at least 154000 dollars for a 30 townhouse fortress called Chi Cha Castle. The project features remote controlled gates and turrets on a 1.26 acre plot amid canal shade trees as European fantasy meets Bangkok affluence.
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Jakarta
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Kuala Lumpur
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Dinosaur embryos support theory of bird like tending
Scientists report in Nature that two dinosaur species from Montana produced well developed embryos suggesting parental care similar to birds. The finds include 19 embryos of a newly named species Orodromeus makelai and seven embryos of Maiasaura peeblesorum, with hatchling behavior implications.
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New York
Montana
Glacier National Park
Nature
John R. Horner
Museum of the Rockies
Bozeman, Mont
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Malaysian volunteers act as human bait to trap malaria mosquitoes
In Kuala Lumpur 34 volunteers are paid 120 to 160 dollars monthly to sleep in huts with mosquito netting and lure Anopheles Maculaeus mosquitoes, while eight bare leg catchers work outdoors. Mosquitoes are collected and tested at the Institute of Medical Research, guiding targeted spraying in breeding areas.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
Munusamy Gunasekaran
Gunasekaran
Health Department
Muthuthamby Balakrishnan
Balakrishnan
Institute of Medical Research
Rat numbers grow in Stockholm as infestation expands
Stockholm officials report the rodent population has tripled to about three million rats, equating to three rats per resident in the city’s sewer system. Unseasonably warm weather and new buildings creating harborage are blamed for the increase.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Soviet Film Exposes Prostitution Scene in Moscow Premier
A frank half hour documentary How Do You Do by Sergei Baranov premiered at a Moscow all night festival hosted by the House of Actors. It shows prostitutes and foreign clients at the National Hotel and interviews with call girls near Leningrad, provoking government scrutiny.
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