Desert

The Han river, which flows through Shaanxi and Hubei provinces, is a tributary of the Yangtze, meeting the great river as it flows through the city of Wuhan in eastern China. Though the river that it feeds is of a far larger size, the Han is nonetheless an important feature in the both the history […]

China: Are Tigers Back In Dongbei?

According to China Environmental Protection News, the first photo of a Dongbei tiger in the wild was captured recently, which is the fourth time since 2014 that a tiger has been detected in the region. The photos themselves can be seen on the Forestry Department website here. The photo was taken by a camera trap set […]

Laos: Rough Ways

Coming hot on the heels of the July 30th U.N anti-trafficking resolution, the culmination of 3 years of negotiation amongst 80 members, is an article in The New York Times which emphasises the difficulties of enforcing wildlife laws – even amongst the willing – and shows, once again, that Southeast Asia will remain the front line […]

China: “No, I have never had any of these”

With what looked like suspicious timing, Ai Weiwei, the CPC’s least favourite artist and political provocateur, had his application for a 6 month UK business visa refused by the British embassy in Beijing, due, the embassy said, to the artist not declaring his criminal convictions. Ai Weiwei hoped to be in the UK in September […]

China: Nightingale Ascending

Nurses in China suffer from overwork and long hours, and increasingly from physical and verbal abuse at the hands of their patients and their families, who are convinced that medical staff are corrupt. The journal Medical World WeChat account posted the resignation letter of one such nurse, who endured all this and more. “It is […]

Spilled Water

覆水难收

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