Reader’s Digest Asia (English Edition)

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A Choice Selection Of Stories

Readers Digest Asia English Edition • Vol. 122 No. 714 August 2022

LETTERS • Reader’s Comments And Opinions

NEWS WORTH SHARING • Octogenarian Creates Free Game App

Border Collie Saves The Day

Post To Post Recycling Trial In Progress

My Year Of Playing 70 Sports • The year I turned 70, I decided to have some fun and games

SMART ANIMALS • The world around them is a wondrous place

Why Do Cats Knock Things Over? • Just curious or attention-seeking? Their antics explained

A Healing Process • Why do wounds mend more slowly as we age?

Sore Feet? • How to choose a pair of shoes that keep your toes, heels and arches happy

News From The WORLD OF MEDICINE

SWEPT AWAY • For the parents of the bride, fear replaces joy as a raging river scoops up their car on the way to the wedding

Can You Change Your Luck? • And is luck even a real thing? It’s complicated

PIZZA • Today it is relished around the world, but pizza was once scorned as poor-man’s fare – until royalty intervened…

LIFE’S LIKE THAT • Seeing The Funny Side

THE GREAT TWEET-OFF: THE SCHOOL RUN • The parents of Twitter have some good pick-up lines.

SEE THE WORLD DIFFERENTLY • IT LOOKS AS IF BIG BEN HAS lain down to enjoy a good paperback. For her installation at the Manchester International Festival in 2021, Argentine artist Marta Minujín made a 42-metre-long replica of the famous London clock tower covered with books: 20,000 copies of 160 different titles that deal with or have shaped British politics. After the festival, visitors were allowed to take the books.

Beware The ANTI-CLIMAX • How to handle the unexpected downside of achieving your goals

LAUGHTER • The Best Medicine

JOBS AT THE TOP • They are not only found in the executive suite

SCREEN PALS • Teens worldwide connect through video calls to build empathy – and change

We Eat Birthday Cake • Hint: It has to do with the Ancient Greeks!

LAUGHING Matters • Humour connects us to one another. But what we find funny has changed over the past 100 years

New Help For Hearing Loss • Today’s solutions not only reunite you with easy conversations, they also reduce your chances of having a fall, becoming depressed and more

The Quirks Of LONG-TERM LOVE

QUOTABLE QUOTES

The Ancient MAGIC Of KITES • For millennia, kites have mesmerised people around the world. Now, a new generation of artists is taking their creations to greater heights

ALL IN A DAY’S WORK • Humour On The Job

SHOULD’VE SEEN THAT COMING

Clean The Things You Never Do* • We often ignore important things in our housework routine. But adding a task or two is easy

Ping & Gaston • Fostering a pair of ducklings brought new joy to our home – until I discovered what awaited them back at the farm

SWITCHED • In 1962, nurses at a small hospital sent home two women with the wrong babies. Then, 50 years later, their children...