by News Decoder | 25 Jul 2018 | Asia, China, Women
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with yarns about the South China Sea and Borneo. In this five-part...
by News Decoder | 24 Jul 2018 | Asia, China, Women
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
by News Decoder | 23 Jul 2018 | Asia, China, Women
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski | 20 Jul 2018 | Asia, China, Women
How Java’s controversial female ruler grew into the job Paul Spencer Sochaczewski taps his vast knowledge of Southeast Asia in this, his third short story for News-Decoder. Last year, Sochaczewski entertained us with alluring yarns about the South China Sea and...
by David Schlesinger | 9 Jul 2018 | Asia, China, United States
By David Schlesinger Is it China’s century? Or is China a sclerotic, debt-laden behemoth on the verge of collapse? Is China an engine for world prosperity, first manufacturing goods for the globe, and then, with new wealth, becoming a great consumption colossus,...
by Christine Fernando | 2 Jul 2018 | Americas, Asia, China, Education, Indiana University, Personal Reflections, Student Posts, United States, Youth Voices
Chinese students flaunting luxury cars and designer clothes fuel a stereotype that ignores the harsh reality for many compatriots on U.S. campuses. Chinese high school exchange students act out skits during their orientation near Ann Arbor, Michigan, 29 August 2017...
by Odelia Putterman | 18 Jun 2018 | Asia, China, Personal Reflections, School Year Abroad, Student Posts, Youth Voices
I spent the past year in Beijing. The Chinese language has taught me that change is inevitable — and life will yield new loves for me. “The Orchard Pavilian Gathering” (Wikimedia Commons) This past year I lived in China as a 17-year-old American high...
by Jonathan Sharp | 8 Jun 2018 | Asia, China
Hong Kong is seriously rich. But sky-high property prices are keeping many young couples apart and, for many, dashing dreams of owning a home. A designer inside a tiny “tube house,” built out of concrete water pipe, on display in Hong Kong, China, 8 December 2017...
by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski | 6 Jun 2018 | Americas, Asia, North Korea, Politics, United States
What if North Korean leader Kim Jong-un challenged U.S. President Donald Trump to a round of golf in a high-stakes gamble at a historic summit? Donald Trump hits out of the sand in Pebble Beach, California, 11 February 2005. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) News-Decoder...
by Meher Singh | 5 Jun 2018 | Asia, Environment
Pupils at a school in India have joined the fight against plastic pollution with an ad campaign aligned with the goals of UN World Environment Day. One of the ads that the students created. At Ascend International School in Mumbai, India, elementary school...