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Box Hill School, England

By Asian Correspondent Thu, Mar 15, 2012 4:34PM UTC View Comments

The Box Hill School is a an independent boarding school of international character that caters to students ages 11–18. Box Hill School pupils enjoy a premium location only 40 minutes outside of London and thrive in an environment that puts personal development on the same level of importance as academic achievement. As a Round Square...

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The controlled insanity of Pakistan’s victory against England

By Ahsan Butt Sun, Jan 29, 2012 2:13PM UTC View Comments

There is a certain generation of Pakistani cricket fans — provisionally, we can say those born between 1975 and 1985 — that have grown up with a very particular worldview when it comes to cricketing miracles. In short, they believe that they are not miracles at all, mainly because they happened too often, and in...

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Saeed Ajmal, chucking, and history

By Ahsan Butt Sun, Jan 22, 2012 5:23AM UTC View Comments

“History does not repeat itself. It rhymes.” — Mark Twain The funny thing about England-Pakistan cricket is that is has essentially become a caricature of itself. Even when everyone, cognizant of the history between the sides, tries to turn the temperature down and take the steam out of relations, some conflict has to arise. It’s...

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Trip in a minute across Australia in three Asian languages

By Jo Lane Wed, Aug 10, 2011 9:08AM UTC View Comments

Here’s some more armchair travel particularly for speakers of Korean, Chinese and Japanese. If you’ve been interested in going to Australia but really want to hear about it from a fellow traveller in your own language, then the above speakers might like to check out the following three videos from Tourism Australia – and then...

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