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Asia

Benign Or Bellicose? China And The South China Sea: The Ambiguities Of The Peaceful Rise Paradigm

“China loves peace” (Li, 2014). This solemn claim by the Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has probably sparked scepticism, if not misbelief, in Washington, Tokyo or Canberra. The recent Chinese charm offensive reiterating the Mid...
by Leonard Schuette
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Africa

Out of Africa: The Evolution of Football in China

Six months after leading Chelsea to their first Champions League triumph, Didier Drogba returned to London last month to present a number of his teammates with commemorative rings to honour that fateful night in Bavaria. In t...
by Patrick Bourke
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Asia

Demo-crazy: Where Does it Belong?

Democracy is a term that has become increasingly convoluted over time. It is a word that many people respect, but only a handful understands its true essence. What is democracy? Is it relative or universal? It certainly comes i...
by Hasan Rizvi
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Asia

Former President of Google China Reveals Censorship Statistics

Kai-Fu Lee, former president of Google China, published a chart on Twitter showing how often his micro-blog was deleted by the Chinese government’s censorship arm. Lee regularly blogs about cultural and technology issue...
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Asia

WATCH: China Builds a Replica of Paris…Now it’s a Ghost Town

If you took a one day trip from from Shanghai to Tianducheng in China’s Zhejiang province, you will be confronted by a 354-foot mini replica of the Eiffel tower. Development on this Paris replica in China began in 2007, at ...
by Natasha Lipman
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PHOTOS: Life Inside Myanmar

Award-winning photographer Geoffrey Hiller first visited Myanmar in 1987; and he was ‘haunted’ by what he saw in the country: “After a frenetic trip, it wasn’t so much the monks and pagodas that haunted me, but th...
by Mong Palatino
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Asia

It Never Rains In Central Asia, But When It Does, It Pours

On May 30-31st torrential rainstorms caused chaos on Kazakhstan’s Almaty, Uzbekistan’s Tashkent and Kyrgyzstan’s Bishkek. While damage was mostly limited to floating cars and flooded houses, for Kyrgyzstan the...
by Global Voices
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Asia

The problem of food waste in China: Part 1

While events seen at November’s APEC conference in Beijing endeavoured to present China’s refreshed attitude towards worldwide ecological stability, recent research shows that a less-publicised environmental concern is send...
by Michael Rose
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Green

No Monkeying Around With Golden Langurs

They look so bright and paint a gorgeous sight but sadly, it seems that the Golden Langurs will not be around for much longer. Found in North-eastern parts of India, the State of Assam to be precise; the Golden Langur is an end...
by Nishant
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