East & Southeast Asia

Issue 168 March 2010

A hunger to survive

24th February 2010 - Issue 168

After her husband and son died of starvation, there was nothing to keep Mrs Song in North Korea. Her story highlights the grim reality of life for the country’s 24m people

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China cafe: hunting wild boar

Mark Kitto

24th February 2010 - Issue 168

Winter is the season for building and renovating. But not all the changes are improvements

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Issue 167 February 2010

China café

Mark Kitto

24th February 2010 - Issue 167

A few years ago, urban Chinese shunned the countryside. But they’re starting to see the appeal

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Will China clean up its act?

Jonathon Porritt

24th February 2010 - Issue 167

China has paid a high price for its rapid economic growth. But can the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases now lead a global green industrial revolution?

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Issue 166 January 2010

China's rough injustice

Poppy Sebag-Montefiore

24th February 2010 - Issue 166 Free entry

The execution of Akmal Shaikh completely undermines the idea that economic success brings with it social and political liberalisation

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Issue 159 June 2009

China’s final frontier

Parag Khanna

24th February 2010 - Issue 159 Free entry

The remote, rebellious western provinces of Tibet and Xinjiang are China's poorest, but they hold vast natural wealth. On a 3,000-mile trek I saw how far Beijing is bending the whole central Asian region to its will

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Issue 33 August 1998

Eugenics and liberty

Matt Ridley

24th February 2010 - Issue 33

Eugenic science originated in Britain 100 years ago. Yet, unlike other western countries, Britain never passed eugenics legislation. Why? It was no thanks to the scientists, the conservatives or the socialists-but thanks to a bloody-minded backbencher in the House of Commons

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