This is the second installment of a six-part story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city built on a ghost story. In this installment, excerpted exclusively from...
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his fertile imagination and vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this short story, his fourth published by News-Decoder. Previously, the Geneva-based writer entertained readers with alluring yarns about the South China Sea, Borneo and...
Are you worthy of being a foreign minister? Ambassador? Policy maker? Or more simply — have you been paying attention? Test your knowledge with our latest quiz — the Decoder Challenge — and find out. We’ve based our eight questions on News-Decoder articles from...
Climate change is wreaking havoc. But skeptics remain, while economic and political instability make it hard for political leaders to take tough decisions. Australian student protesters demand action on climate change, Sydney, Australia, 30 November 2018 (EPA-EFE/Dan...
By Richard Hubbard The huge global investment industry is currently undergoing a radical transformation caused by the fairly recent discovery that millennials are very different from their baby boomer parents — and that they are about to inherit great wealth. As...
By Nelson Graves Today News-Decoder takes a big step forward with a new website design that will better showcase the work of our correspondents and our students around the world. The website is a window onto our world where young people and experts tackle critical,...
By Nelson Graves Today News-Decoder is launching a fund-raising campaign to ensure we keep growing so we can become the world’s pre-eminent news service and global forum for young people. We have made excellent progress since we launched two years ago. Now we...
More and more studies are predicting climate disaster. Will the prophesies of doom lead to action to curb global warming — or to reckless hopelessness? A plane drops fire retardant over a forest on the outskirts of La Londe-les-Maures, France, 26 July 2017 (AP...
By Sue Landau Now that we have cheap renewable energy, a full-blown industrial revolution is waiting in the wings, propelled by the need to slow climate change. Just as the gasoline car banished horses and carriages from our roads, the electric car will drive its...
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