Binoculars over the border: The Chinese town visited by Kim Jong-un
Dandong, in north-eastern China, has built a tourism industry around peering into the world’s most secretive country while propping up its economy.
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Dandong, in north-eastern China, has built a tourism industry around peering into the world’s most secretive country while propping up its economy.
Lois Billedo was a 12-year-old runaway when Reverend Bill Crews gave her a place to sleep. Almost 40 years later, the pair share the deepest of bonds.
Lula’s narrow re-election in Brazil means the world has dodged a climate bullet. But with the right wing dominant in Congress, the victory remains tenuous.
Decades of industrial decline and reliance on volatile overseas shipping routes have left essential services, freight and farming exposed to international conflict.
Our courts aren’t perfect, but it made me appreciate the parts it gets right.
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David Whitley is a writer based in Sheffield, England, who has made it his mission to cover as much of Australia as possible. He has a taste for unusual experiences and oddities with a great story behind them. As far as David’s concerned, happiness is nosily ambling around a history-packed city or driving punishing distances through the middle of nowhere on a big road trip. He is also probably the only person to have been to Liechtenstein and the Cook Islands in the same week.
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Shaun Carney is a regular columnist, an author and former associate editor of The Age.
The tennis star-turned-commentator and author has built a new life after the brutalities of her past. Now she’s passing on the lessons she’s learnt.
Its claim to fame might be its unusual name, but there are good reasons I keep returning to this special coastal village.
With more and more Australians flocking to this Pacific paradise, this busy airport needs to lift its game.
Weeks of haggling and horse-trading between various parties – as Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Gadi Eisenkot curry favour from allies and potential enemies – is on the cards.
Six weeks from the end of the school year, principals and teachers say they have been blindsided by a government decision to reduce disability support funding.