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            Crafting Stories Set in Southeast Asia for the World
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        WRITER WAN PHING Lim (her preferred name order) was born in Butterworth and lives in KL. Many of the 14 stories in her recently published debut short story coll... 
    
    
          
    
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            The Intriguing Invention of “Zero” and “One”
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        ZEROES AND ONES fill our world today. The binary code that powers our computers could of course have been signified by other, even arbitrary, symbols, but they... 
    
    
    
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