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This month, Verve’s star teen movie reviewer Lucy Kennedy gets stuck into the mysterious French sci-fi series, Parallels.
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For many young Chinese, hanfu is about more than fashion or beauty; it is a way of honouring tradition and reviving a culture that was, and still, is both overlooked and misunderstood. And it is a movement that is gaining immense traction.
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She’s a doctor by day but come nightfall (and days off), Ellie Wernham swaps her superhero white coat for a workshop, furthering her passion and talent for woodworking.
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Elysian Group founder and chief executive officer, Eva Neshat, is a global advocate and investor within the medicinal cannabis industry.
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Mastering the Mind through the Noble Path

The reality, after completing a 10-day course at the Dhamma Medini Vipassana Meditation Centre, is that it was not what I imagined, it was more. Deeply profound and shapeshifting in mysterious ways. The technique is taught by Mr Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a respected 20th-century authority on the practice.
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