Herpetologist Fred Kraus discovered a new arboreal snake species, Dendrelaphis atra, on Misima Island in Papua New Guinea. This snake, characterized by its matte black coloration and adaptability ...

Kraus also identified three additional new species on nearby islands: Dendrelaphis atra on Misima Island, Dendrelaphis melanarkys on Rossel Island, and Dendrelaphis roseni on Woodlark Island.

It turned out to be a new species. Fred Kraus visited Misima Island as part of a larger project to survey the region’s reptile diversity. His efforts were focused on a group of tree-dwelling ...

It is hard to imagine the brilliant novelist Yukio Mishima taking a driving test, but he did in 1962, eight years before his sensational ritual suicide. At the somewhat mature age of 37 ...

The Thai government on Wednesday morning cut off the power supply to Myawaddy, Payathongzu and Tachileik at the urging of Chinese authorities who said call-centre scam operations were becoming an ...

For some, Mishima is simply too extreme a proposition – they find it impossible to separate the art from the artist. For those who do read him, the shadow of his final days can fall heavily on ...

“Human life is limited, but I would like to live forever,” read the note Yukio Mishima left on his desk shortly before he left home for the final time. Mishima, who would have turned 100 ...

But you can’t please everyone. Unlike the supreme commander of the Allied powers during Japan’s postwar occupation, the writer Yukio Mishima, who would quickly become the country’s most translated ...

I once owned a photograph of Yukio Mishima squatting in the snow, dressed in nothing but a skimpy white loincloth, brandishing a long samurai sword. Mishima’s torso is buffed from years of ...

BANGKOK: Police officers in Tachileik, a town on the Myanmar side of the border with Chiang Rai province, rescued a Chinese businessman after a gunfight with his abductors on Wednesday (Dec 18).

Kingston Resources Ltd. (AU:KSN) has released an update. Kingston Resources Ltd. has announced that its Misima Gold Project, boasting a significant 3.8 million ounces of Mineral Resource and 1.9 ...

The story “From the Wilderness” by Yukio Mishima was written and published in Japanese in 1966, but wasn’t translated into English until now. It will be included in a new collection ...