Poet Fights to Maintain Mongolia’s Nomadic Culture
Gombojavyn Mend-Ooyo, considered Mongolia’s poet laureate, is a proponent of holding on to the country’s nomadic culture. He has his work cut out for him.
Napalm, one of the 20th century’s major villains
Book review: Napalm: An American Biography by Robert Neer
In China, Executives Flock Back to School for Unfinished Business
March 26, 2013 BEIJING — Wang Jianhua, the president of Shandong Gold Mining, is part of a new generation of middle-age Chinese executives going back to school. Once a month, he travels four hours by train from Shandong Province to Beijing to attend executive M.B.A. classes. “After the Cultural Revolution, a lot of people felt...
A Tale of Two Shangri-Las
Zhongdian may be China’s official Shangri-La, but seekers of a mythical Himalayan paradise are more likely to find inspiration amid the sacred peaks of Yading
The Last Quarter of the Moon
Book review: The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian
Eastern Promise in Little Africa
Guangzhou's Little Africa: Chasing their slice of China's raging appetite, tens of thousands of African traders are settling uneasily in the ghettos of Guangzhou.
Where Picassos are cheaper by the dozen
The heart of the art factory of the world, where it was estimated a few years ago that up to 60 per cent of the world’s replica oil paintings originate from
Fight or Flight
“Gambling on cockfighting is like a religion [in the Philippines] - Christianity first, then gambling. Pray for forgiveness on Sunday, then back here on Monday”
Still fighting for recognition of Agent Orange impact
“Almost every one of the villages I visited in the six months I was setting up the centre had disabled young people because of Agent Orange,” says Nguyen.
Living on the Coal Face
Depressing realities of Mongolia's oldest mining town, where informal miners pull coal out of makeshift mines in -25 degree temperatures
Two Billion Eyes – the Story of China Central Television
Book review: Two Billion Eyes - the Story of China Central Television
The Heart of the Jungle
Jane Goodall left secretarial school, moved in with the chimps and revolutionised the conservation movement. At 78, her field work is different — and more urgent.