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Not so nobel

Not so nobel

Report from the UK by Husna Risvi.

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Get out

Get out

Report from Spain by Eoin Wilson.

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Introducing...

Introducing...

Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change.

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Police are now responsible for 40 per cent of all homicides in Rio. Photo: Ratao Diniz/Alamy

Law and disorder

Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Report from Brazil by Beatriz Miranda.

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 Illustration: Nadia Akingbule

‘I didn’t want to be a mother’

In a groundbreaking new work, Trifonia Melibea Obono has sought out and recorded the unheard stories of lesbian and bisexual women living in the small West African state of Equatorial Guinea.

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No room for dissent

With a year to go until Myanmar’s next general election, political activism is being pushed to the periphery. Charlotte England reports.

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Bulu Bari is a regular at the Bangladesh Film Development Corporation complex – but work is scarce.

Dhallywood dreams

Under a tree in the studios of Bangladesh’s struggling film industry, women extras in the shadows of glamour wait for work. They tell Sophie Hemery and Alice McCool their stories.

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Looking the very picture of a traditional way of life, mathematics teacher Phunchok Angmo, photographed at Thiksey monastery, near Leh, Ladakh, is observing startling changes among her pupils. ‘The children here no longer care about the culture and they spend less time talking to each other,’ she says. ‘They spend their free time on laptops.’ Photo: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

Globalization and extremism – join the dots

Insecure people can be highly susceptible to false narratives purporting to explain their precarious situation​, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge.

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A still from the music video for ‘Room Service’, via the record label 88rising, by hip-hop sensation Higher Brothers. nin.tl/higherbrothers

(Don’t) fight the power

Amy Hawkins surveys the cultural landscape in the world’s second-largest economy.

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(Previous page) A guard at the Mombasa terminus of the Chinese-financed SGR railway. Saturday is one of the busiest times on the line, as Kenyans travel from Nairobi to the coast to visit family. Photo: Luis Tato/Bloomberg/Getty

The Beijing connection

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and has become deeply involved with the continent’s politics in recent years. This has not been without its controversies. Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between these two powerhouses.

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Uyghur men in Xinjiang pray during the Corban festival (Eid) in 2016. Public displays of religiosity are now considered signs of extremism. Photo: Kevin Frayer/Getty

Living in a ghost world

Since 2016, at least a million people have been sent to re-education camps as part of the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur people. Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s northwest province.

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A fisher catches crayfish near a canopy of solar panels in Yangzhou. China has quickly become the world’s poster-child for renewables. Photo: Meng Delong/Getty

How green is china?

Ma Tianjie examines the limits of China’s ‘ecological nationalism’.

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China - The Facts

China - The Facts

Where’s the money going?; More money, more problems; Climate breakdown; In focus.

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Take action

Campaigning and more reading on China.

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Since the 2008 economic crisis, China has invested heavily in infrastructure. The largest radio telescope in the world, for observing outer space, was completed in 2016 in southwest China. Photo: Liu Xu/Xinhua/Alamy

China in charge

From a poor agricultural nation to the second-largest economy in the world: the rapid rise of China is one of the most remarkable facts of this era, as Yohann Koshy finds out. But how did it happen? And what comes next?

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Not so nobel

Report from the UK by Husna Risvi.

Husna Risvi November, 2019 522 Preview
Get out

Report from Spain by Eoin Wilson.

Eoin Wilson November, 2019 522 Preview
Introducing...

Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change.

Richard Swift November, 2019 522 Preview
Law and disorder

Violence in Rio de Janeiro. Report from Brazil by Beatriz Miranda.

Beatriz Miranda November, 2019 522 Preview
‘I didn’t want to be a mother’

In a groundbreaking new work, Trifonia Melibea Obono has sought out and recorded the unheard stories of lesbian and bisexual women living in the small West African state of Equatorial Guinea.

Trifonia Melibea Obono November, 2019 522 Preview
No room for dissent

With a year to go until Myanmar’s next general election, political activism is being pushed to the periphery. Charlotte England reports.

Charlotte England November, 2019 522 Preview
Dhallywood dreams

Under a tree in the studios of Bangladesh’s struggling film industry, women extras in the shadows of glamour wait for work. They tell Sophie Hemery and Alice McCool their stories.

Various Authors November, 2019 522 Preview
Globalization and extremism – join the dots

Insecure people can be highly susceptible to false narratives purporting to explain their precarious situation​, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge.

Helena Norberg-Hodge November, 2019 522 Preview
(Don’t) fight the power

Amy Hawkins surveys the cultural landscape in the world’s second-largest economy.

Amy Hawkins November, 2019 522 Preview
The Beijing connection

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and has become deeply involved with the continent’s politics in recent years. This has not been without its controversies. Christine Mungai reflects on the past, present and future of the relationship between these two powerhouses.

Christine Mungai November, 2019 522 Preview
Living in a ghost world

Since 2016, at least a million people have been sent to re-education camps as part of the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur people. Yohann Koshy speaks to anthropologist Darren Byler to find out what is going on in China’s northwest province.

Yohann Koshy November, 2019 522 Preview
How green is china?

Ma Tianjie examines the limits of China’s ‘ecological nationalism’.

Ma Tianjie November, 2019 522 Preview
China - The Facts

Where’s the money going?; More money, more problems; Climate breakdown; In focus.

November, 2019 522 Preview
Take action

Campaigning and more reading on China.

November, 2019 522 Preview
China in charge

From a poor agricultural nation to the second-largest economy in the world: the rapid rise of China is one of the most remarkable facts of this era, as Yohann Koshy finds out. But how did it happen? And what comes next?

Yohann Koshy November, 2019 522 Preview