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It’s easy to become absorbed in the lives of beautiful people like Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth.

Blinded to what I had, I spent a mad day stalking my younger, hotter self

They were the best-looking pair I’d ever seen in real life. And I’ve been in the same room as Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky.

  • Kate Halfpenny

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Bill Heinecke, chairman and founder of Minor International, in Bangkok, Thailand. Minor International, whose hotels in Thailand feature in the hit series The White Lotus, plans to expand in the US to cash in on the newfound global fame that’s seen room bookings skyrocket since the show began airing last month.

Real-life ‘White Lotus’ billionaires race to capitalise on show

Two local ultra-rich tycoons are happy to attach their companies’ brands to the confronting plot that exposes the dark side of most characters.

  • Filipe Pacheco, Patpicha Tanakasempipat and Danny Lee
Min Aung Hlaing

Thailand just gave Myanmar what it craved, and it wasn’t humanitarian aid

The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper, even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.

  • Zach Hope
Rescue workers are seen working at the collapsed construction building.

What it is like to wait for a miracle at Bangkok’s grey mountain of destruction

I’ve been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured, where they might be.

  • Zach Hope
Family trapped in rubble

Footage shows family stuck under rubble, waiting for rescue

Some survivors filmed their ordeal as they waited to be rescued, trapped in tiny pockets of air between slabs of broken concrete.

Athitaya Yuenyao, 22, with her team of electricians.

Athitaya was on the second day of a new job. Her teammates made it out. She has not

Athitaya and her colleagues were about to begin work on the seventh floor of a Bangkok tower when their leader snapped this picture. Then an earthquake struck.

  • Zach Hope
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A Buddhist monk walks near a collapsed pagoda in Mandalay after Friday’s earthquake.

Quake disaster has exposed a Trump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in

The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years, but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.

  • Michael Ruffles
A high-rise under construction in Bangkok collapses after an earthquake on March 28.

Kanittha can barely imagine returning to the office. It’s on the 29th floor

Friday’s earthquake emptied Bangkok into the streets and now darkens routines that involve living and working dozens of storeys above ground.

  • Damien Cave, Muktita Suhartono and Richard C. Paddock
Russian Emergency Ministry employees leave one of two planes that landed in Myanmar following Friday’s earthquake.

China and Russia already have boots on the ground in Myanmar. The US is nowhere to be seen

The United States, the richest country in the world and once its most generous provider of foreign aid, has so far sent nothing to the earthquake disaster zone.

  • Hannah Beech and Edward Wong
Thai rescue workers remove a body recovered from the building that collapsed in Bangkok’s Chatuchak area.

A ‘signal’ is picked up in the rubble and the call goes out for quiet

It is three days almost to the moment since the under-construction office tower collapsed in Bangkok. But miracles can happen, and the staging area is buzzing.

  • Zach Hope and Veena Thoopkrajae

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