Enduring the worst winter in the world
— December 7, 2012Nine months in Antarctica braving minus 80 C temperatures is one thing. It’s the three months of darkness that really do you in
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The North Korean Fashion Customer
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While the Rest of North Korea Struggles, Pyongyang’s Fortunate Few Go Shopping
— August 19, 2013The city of Pyongyang may conjure up images of Mass Games and goose-stepping sentries, but the North Korean capital looks very different from the place it was 10 years ago.
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Travel app targets millennials in China
— February 28, 2019Travel à la Carte stores everything needed for a trip in one central place and includes a multi-functional digital wallet and an AI-powered assistant Ivana Hronova and her sister Olga Grillova’s first trip to Cuba started off as a nightmare. Their flight landed in the evening, the local system did not recognise their credit card…
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A virus called Wuhan-400
— February 13, 2020The Eyes of Darkness, a 1981 thriller by bestselling suspense author Dean Koontz, tells of a Chinese military lab that creates a virus as part of its biological weapons programme. The lab is located in Wuhan, which lends the virus its name, Wuhan-400. A chilling literary coincidence or a case of writer as unwitting prophet?In The…
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Boris Johnson’s youngest brother Max on Hong Kong, Covid frustrations, and a special trip with dad
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