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  • Students set sights on Mars landing

    — August 25, 2013

    Thousands, including two from Hong Kong, apply for the ultimate reality show – a one-way trip to colonise the red planet with cameras in tow

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  • Weapons of mass distraction

    — August 20, 2013

    Sea life and mini golf are North Korea’s latest propaganda tools

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  • Myanmar’s best beaches

    — August 19, 2013

    Like your sands white and sunsets bright? Myanmar is primed to become Asia’s hottest beach destination

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  • While the Rest of North Korea Struggles, Pyongyang’s Fortunate Few Go Shopping

    — August 19, 2013

    The 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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  • North Korean Mass Games

    — August 9, 2013

    The North Koreans know how to put on a show and this year — the 60th anniversary of the end of hostilities in the Korean War — they’ve gone all out for the Mass Games.

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  • 10 things to know before visiting Pyongyang

    — August 9, 2013

    It has the world’s tallest unoccupied building, it puts on the world’s biggest annual show and it’s sometimes prone to petulant nuclear threats. But what else do you know about North Korea?

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  • Sacred ground

    — August 1, 2013

    With thousands of ancient monuments to explore, the city of Bagan offers a seemingly endless journey into Myanmar’s fascinating past

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    — October 3, 2013

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    — November 9, 2015

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    — November 15, 2014

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    — August 23, 2017

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    — April 10, 2016

    Not only has the German used military ‘dazzle camouflage’ for leather-goods brand MCM’s shop, he’s also used it in the product designs. And for good measure the display includes teapots, a pig, a skull and a severed arm. ‘It’s … about what a shape is, what a product is,’ he explains to Kate Whitehead

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