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Nikhil Budhdev

Show BioHide BioNikhil Budhdev is a junior at AISG. Writing for The Beacon for the first time, he is really enjoying the experience. Other than writing he also enjoys playing basketball and a few other sports. Nik mostly concentrates his writing on international sports and sometimes, international news as well.

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Pollution Strikes Again!

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Over the past decade, pollution in developing countries has been one of the main reasons for a decrease in public health, and one of the top 5 reasons for death in Delhi. In the month of December 2015, Delhi, the capital of India, had its air quality 1.5 times... More »

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AISG Service in Action

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As the school returned from the long and joyous Chinese New Year break, community services have been up and running, coming up with new events to get back in action. Community service at AISG is always buzzing! These are the events that have happened and are u... More »

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Anything For Humanity

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The weekend of mid March was a memorable one for the habitat students and co-ordinators. Habitat’s first annual build was the highlight for Habitat’s long and prosperous year of 2015-16. Visiting the Shiming Village ,Conghua Distict of the Guangdong Province. ... More »

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APAC Theater Takes the Show on the Road

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From February 24th to February 28th, AISG’s performers travelled to HKIS in order to participate in this year’s APAC Theater, a competitive event in the APAC Performing Arts category. Students who attended the APAC festival were part of a two day workshop wher... More »

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Hoop Dreams: ESPN FBA

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Fantasy Basketball has been a big part of the AISG basketball players’ lives. FBA is an online stat competition based on live stats of NBA players, updated on a daily basis. Players have to create a league and add up to 12 players that are willing to participa... More »

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Basketball Varsity Super APAC

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In the last week of January, the APAC Varsity Boys Basketball Team took on top schools at this year’s SUPER APAC. Flying to Seoul, Korea on the 26th of January, the boys would be tested to the limit. All the training and rigorous practices as well as the sacri... More »

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Three Minutes to Midnight

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The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists oversees a clock, a metaphor for how close humanity is to destroying the Blue Planet. This clock has been the closest to midnight (Doomsday) since the Cold War. In 2002, the clock was set at 7 minutes to midnight; just 13 ... More »

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Tri-Cities Balling During the Weekend

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From the 4th to the 6th of December, AISG was flooded with tall and strong basketball players from different cities of China. WAB (Western Academy Of Beijing), SASPD (Shanghai American School Pudong), NBA School Dongguan and The Sports School of Guangzhou. Bot... More »

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Movember and The Moustache Men

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The month of November—also known as Movember in some parts of the world—is a month where a band of perfectly ordinary men take on the brave task of growing their moustaches to raise awareness of men’s health issues—notably, diseases such as prostate and testic... More »

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Air Force One

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    The 747-200B twins, jumbo jet that the US president travels on is known as the AirForce One. Ironically, AirForce One is an air traffic call sign name, which is given to the Boeing to avoid confusions in communication. The two planes have different air tra... More »

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A Great Start to the Basketball Season

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The boys and girls basketball teams played The British School on the 11th of November, which was last Wednesday. Having successful practices ahead of the game and a good warmup on game day, the rams were able to play well on both fronts. There was nervousness ... More »

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MS HS House Games

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As spirit week continued to shine colors on the school, StuCo organized a middle and high school joint event on the afternoon of Tuesday the 27th . The event was an opportunity for newcomers to get to know others in the school and also to get acquainted with t... More »