By Tran Mai Anh Don’t leave an empty space in your heart. Sometimes saying “thank you” seems inadequate, especially after the days when my mother and I received so much love. Many people sent messages, shared articles, and recalled the long journey Thiện Nhân and his family traveled. Every word touched my heart deeply. I […]
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Many tech projects are now doubling down on ways to command consumer attention – the life blood of the digital economy – without actually providing content of substantial value. They’re digging deeper to find innovative ways to deliberately produce entertainment that can only engage consumers’ fleeting, surface-level attention span. What if the best strategy for
Current trends encourage businesses to pay considerable lip service to the huge potential of digital, algorithm-driven, AI-enhanced systems with limitless applications operating at the edge of our imaginations. At the same time, we all recognise that there has been a profound drop in quality in the online offering as a result of their introduction. The
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by Daniel Spero The way I see it, writing is more than a profession; it’s a calling. It’s an exploration for the exact nouns to define a subject and a journey for adjectives might best describe them. It’s a mission for the most precise verb for an action and the best adverb to specify it.
I’ve been engrossed in Sakshi Shioramwar’s account of her character Tanaaya for the past week. Colourful, intriguing and sensuous writing — an intimate look at another part of the world and an exceptional debut novel by our talented Metro Writers colleague. Red Peacock is a tale of seeking freedom, love and revenge painted with colors
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By Ho Hai Yen The city darkened as the brick-red sun slipped between two high-rise buildings and then suddenly disappeared. In a moment as quiet as the silencing of a telephone, the city was cut off from its surroundings. Everything went dark, like a house blowing a fuse, like a pair of eyes blinded after
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When the modern science of analytics started to influence the way we market brands, something went dark in the soul of advertising. Finally businesses had the technology to reach their exact target human being, and that’s when it somehow became appropriate to tap that person on the forehead and demand her attention. It doesn’t matter
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By Maggie Maggie I think my current reading habit started when I was a kid. From a young age, my happiest weekends in the mountains were spent being driven by my parents to the district market, visiting the biggest bookstore and buying a book. When I grew up, I spent almost 10 years away from
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A lecturer invited to speak about poetry at my old university began his talk by taking off his clothes. As the astonished students looked on, he shuffled out of everything he was wearing, leant into the microphone and uttered a single sentence: “A poet is always naked before the world”. I doubt he was ever
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I wanted to drop English teaching from the moment I started. I first read about these glamorous posts abroad while working at my first office job. As a would-be writer with no real prospects in my home country, I couldn’t think of any better way to use the literature skills I’d studied at university. It
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