Sepak Takraw! I wrote about this when I discovered it in Thailand, back in 1986?, way before Facebook, and even the internet. Four off duty police officers taught me the game in a public park in Bankok. I was much younger then, about 35, and a second degree black belt in Uechi Ryu Karate, so …
“An autocratic politician emerges from retirement at age 92 to defeat his handpicked but appallingly corrupt successor, and to clear the way for a former deputy he had imprisoned on trumped-up charges. It’s an unlikely plot for a political thriller, but that’s what is happening in Malaysia. And if things play out according to Mahathir Mohamad’s plan, …
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