Stories that made us smile this week
STORY: Stories that made us smile this week
1/ A Dubai cafe pampers pooches
with puppaccinos and pupcakes
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FOUNDER AND OWNER OF HAPPY BARK DAY CAFE, HYUNSUK KU, SAYING:
“One day I was thinking – there are many places for humans, restaurants, why is there no restaurant for dogs? We want to go everywhere together, we want to stay everywhere. So I thought let’s make one for them.”
2/ A giant robot fixes railway wires in Japan
that are too hard to reach for humans
Courtesy: West Japan Railway Company
3/ Stephen Carpenter and Eric Bourne are the first same-sex couple
to get married on the British Antarctic Territory
Courtesy: British Antarctic Survey
4/ Writers with looming deadlines can go to this anti-procrastination cafe
which doesn't let them leave until their work is done
Location: Tokyo, Japan
(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) 37-YEAR-OLD WRITER AND LYRICIST, EMIKO SASAKI:
“I’ve finished about 80% of the work. I think it’s good to be able to concentrate on writing the articles without doing other unnecessary things.”
