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A passenger on the “Jungle Train” sleeper service, which rumbles 526km northwards overnight through the spine of Peninsular Malaysia to the Thai border. Photo: Amirul Ruslan
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Philippines split over divorce bill, rail travel in Malaysia, the women who painted China: 5 weekend reads you missed

  • From the Philippines’ divorce bill to the nearly forgotten women who painted China, here are five stories you may have missed over the weekend
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1. Life in the slow lane: savouring the romance of rail travel in Malaysia

The “Jungle Train” service, which runs along the spine of Peninsular Malaysia, is the country’s last sleeper train as cars and buses dominate travel. Photo: Amirul Ruslan

2. ‘Immoral’ move: Philippine conservatives vow to challenge divorce bill’s passing

Pro-divorce advocates take part in a protest in front of the senate building in Metro Manila. Photo: AFP

3. Logged out: in the footsteps of the teak wallahs in northern Thailand

A room in a house built of teak in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, that is now a museum. The area’s ‘teak trail’ traces more than a century of logging of the hardwood. Photo: Oliver Raw

4. Nearly forgotten, 2 intrepid women artists who painted China

Detail from Entrance to a Chinese Temple – Beijing painted by American artist Mary Augusta Mullikin. She and Scottish-born Anna Hotchkis toured China together painting scenes and portraits, until World War II separated them. Photo: Mary Mullikin

5. How to type in Chinese faster than in English? The genius of predictive text

Zhi Bingyi (left), was one of the key figures in the evolution of Chinese input method, which, after posing problems in its early days, has come on through the use of predictive text to reach levels of speed once unimaginable.
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