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After 28 years, British adventurer Karl Bushby on Monday ends a 50,000km (31,000-mile) trek home from Chile across four continents without using any transport. Bushby, who set off on his odyssey from South America in 1998, had two golden rules for his journey – he should avoid all forms of transport to advance and not return until he completed his challenge. The route back to his home city of Hull in northeastern England has seen him walk the length of the Americas, across the Bering Strait from

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Singapore is pitching itself as a bridge between the European Union (EU) and Asean, as the two blocs continue their protracted discussions to seal a free trade agreement (FTA). However, Myanmar’s political uncertainty is a major hurdle towards an EU-Asean FTA, and Singapore will have to play a key role to break the deadlock when it assumes the chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations next year, according to an analyst. At a joint press conference with German Chancellor...