When the man who calls himself "Chinabounder" moved to Shanghai to teach English and, apparently, have a little naughty fun on the side, he probably didn't know what he was getting himself into. His type is so common in Asia that it's almost a cliche: ...
Over the last decade, they cropped up in cities throughout China, tucked into raucous markets or along forgotten side streets, their interiors smelling of musty canvas and crammed with bounty for aspiring young soldiers: illicit weapons shops with ...
What does the past look like from 200 miles up? A new generation of archaeologists has found that the history of civilization may look far clearer from the top of the atmosphere than it does from the bottom of a dig On High: The temple of Angkor ...
When the man who calls himself "Chinabounder" moved to Shanghai to teach English and, apparently, have a little naughty fun on the side, he probably didn't know what he was getting himself into. His type is so common in Asia that it's almost a cliche: ...
This decidedly twenty-first-century form of protest in Shanghai resonates with recent demonstrations in other Chinese cities--notably the 2007 protests in Xiamen, again mostly led by members of a burgeoning new middle class, which successfully blocked ...
When UNESCO designated Angkor a World Heritage site in 1992, it aimed to protect the area –- once the capital of the Khmer empire -- from encroaching development. Cambodia was just emerging from decades of political strife during which restoration work ...
It started simply enough. In early 2005, Daniela Papi was finishing up a three-year stint as a English teacher in Japan and looking for a meaningful next step. She'd visited Cambodia a few years back and wanted to return. Her friend Greta Arnquist had ...
The China Daily reports on a campaign to make three cities in Hunan, Mao’s home province, test zones for energy-saving and environmental protection strategies. Changsha, Zhuzhou, and Xiangtan will be singled out for improvements in public ...
In October, the forestry department of China’s Shaanxi province released photos taken by a local farmer of a South China tiger. The photos would have marked the first sighting of the animal, long believed functionally extinct, since 1964. But netizens ...
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