Category: As It Is (慢速新闻杂志)

The capital city of Kabul, Afghanistan, has seen big changes in its high-end housing market. Peace, it seems, is driving up property prices. Omidullah, a real estate agent, is selling…

Vice President Kamala Harris and pop singer Chappell Roan were among the year’s most talked-about people. Their names were also among those people said incorrectly, or mispronounced. In early December,…

In Ecuador, power outages threaten ice cream businesses in the small town of Salcedo in the country’s central highlands. Ice cream production in Salcedo began in the middle of the…

The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) Billionaire Ambitions Report for 2024 said the total number of billionaires worldwide had risen to 2,682 from 2,544 a year earlier. Their worth increased…

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has released a proposed plan to protect the state’s famous Joshua trees. Environmentalists say the trees are threatened by wildfires, human development and…

A short boat ride from the wealthy city-state of Singapore is something rare – a small, quiet island. People living on Pulau Ubin still talk about the arrival of solar…

South Korea’s parliament moved to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial law and sent troops into the streets on Tuesday night. For several hours, armed forces with…

The Rohingya are an ethnic group from Myanmar. They have been displaced from that country and many now live in some of the world’s largest refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.…

A South Korean court has found a man guilty of purposefully gaining weight to avoid completing required service in the country’s military. Seoul’s Eastern District Court sentenced the 26-year-old man…

Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is known for its tall, modern buildings rising high above the desert. But an unusual animal from Argentina, the Patagonian mara, can be found…

Police suspected someone was stealing shoes from a children’s school in southwestern Japan. But a security camera caught the thief in action. It was a weasel! The small animal with…

A Scottish dairy, or milk cow farm, is offering what it calls Britain’s costliest coffee: one cup for $344. It is a huge price for a little cup of coffee,…

People will no longer have to fight with monkeys in the historic Thai city of Lopburi. That is because of new efforts to keep the animals from reproducing and to…

Martin Edwards studies the shadows of the ancient forest from a high seat and waits. Sitting still, he watches with his special camera. Then, Edwards aims and fires his rifle.…

As the price of fuel increased greatly in Ethiopia earlier this year, Awgachew Seleshi decided to buy an electric vehicle, or EV. The decision follows government efforts to slowly remove…