The Tham Dynasty restaurant in Paynesville is celebrating 30 years of delicious food this week.How did this famous restaurant came to be? It’s quite the story.Owners of Tham Dynasty, Teresa and Jeffery Tham, were born in Dili, East Timor.They went to high school together and fled East Timor following the Indonesian invasion in the 1970s.Teresa migrated to Australia when she was 18 with her...

Watching Rory Smith meet some of the medical team for the first time since they helped save his life at the Bairnsdale Hospital, it was interesting to observe the reactions.“I went for a run the other day,” Rory told them.“But I’m not pushing myself too hard.”The amazement on the health professionals’ faces was unmistakable. It clearly wasn’t something they expected from someone who had...