A freight train that originated in Duisburg, Germany arrives in Dazhou, China.Photo: China Stringer Network

One belt, one road

China’s dazzlingly ambitious international investment programme – the Belt and Road Initiative – is well under way, with designs to bring infrastructure to half the planet. Wayne Ellwood on the scale of this juggernaut and its economic and political ramifications.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018
A protester holds blood-stained images of government figures during a demonstration against the annulment of Law 180 in August 2017.Photo: James Brunker News / Alamy

Against mother nature

A highway project threatens indigenous peoples' reserves in Bolivia. Aldo Orellana Lopez reports.

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NI 508 - Clampdown! Criminalizing dissent - December, 2017

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