'AI simply can't replicate it'
Despite the decline of the publishing industry, self-publication and handmade "zine" magazines are growing in popularity in Japan, reflecting the country's enduring love of paper in the digital era
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VIDEO: 🇯🇵 True blue tradition: how Japan's coveted jeans are made
Call it an antidote to fast fashion: Japanese jeans hand-dyed with natural indigo and weaved on a clackety vintage loom, then sold at a premium to global denim connoisseurs
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Island in the crosshairs: The U.S. is pouring billions of dollars into protecting its Pacific stronghold of Guam from a Chinese onslaught https://t.co/X8eVp59I1L
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TSMC makes the world’s most advanced chips in Taiwan. Geopolitical shifts are pushing it to set up a new factory in the American desert.
It needs to bring its cutting-edge tech but also a notoriously harsh, military-style work culture to the U.S. 🧵
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In Paris and around the world, #AFP staff gathered in solidarity on Wednesday with their nine colleagues in Gaza, demanding that the Israeli authorities ensure their security and allow them to leave the territory if they need to
VIDEO: Tiny songbirds flutter around a fighting ring in India's Assam state, in a centuries-old tradition criticised by some as cruel but which has returned after an eight-year ban was overturned.