By Yos Katank • Oct 10, 2009
Nearly 200 years after the birth of Louis Braille, the alphabet of raised dots he created, commonly known as Braille, is still in regular use by 150m blind people around the world. Now the system is also widely used in Cambodia and the government has announced it will soon become available in every school nationwide

By Jet Odrerir • Oct 10, 2009
As one of the world’s oldest belief systems, Buddhism has touched everyone from warrior kings to film stars

By Shandi Mukergee • Oct 10, 2009
Thaksin Shinawatra could now be riding a wave of domestic and international acclaim if he had served his ‘unjust’ sentence and emerged as a political martyr

By Charlie Lancaster • Oct 05, 2009
A spate of thefts from garment containers is costing the textile industry both money and reputation