Since this installment was posted in October, this story has been published by Explorer’s Eye Press in “Exceptional Encounters: Enhanced Reality Tales from Southeast Asia”. It is available for purchase here. This is the first installment in a five-part...
We originally published this article in February after Donald Trump took office as U.S. president and said he was not committed to a two-state solution in Palestine. We are publishing it again because of the continuing importance of the issue, which was the focus of a...
I waded into a raging debate over race relations in America. I emerged battered and bruised — and better able to understand different views. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick (center) kneels in protest with teammates during the national anthem...
Leaders in Spain have stepped back from the precipice in their battle over Catalonia’s bid for independence. But resentment persists. Demonstrators supporting Spanish unity wave Spanish and Catalan flags, Barcelona, 8 October 2017 (EPA-EFE/Quique Garcia) This is...
Taiwan has long been a crossroads of empires and a refuge for resistance. I arrived as a flaneur, with few expectations of making local friends. The night market of Keelung City, a major port city in northeastern Taiwan (Drawing by Brendan Ross) Taiwan has long been a...
By Suining Sim History never repeats itself, but it often echoes. In an exclusive webinar with former Reuters Editor-in-Chief David Schlesinger, students from the ISF Academy in Hong Kong and Chadwick International school in South Korea discussed tensions between the...
Catalonia’s drive to win independence from Spain is the latest threat to Europe’s framework and a reminder of other movements on the continent. People raise their hands as they demonstrate in favor of dialogue, Barcelona, Spain, 7 October 2017...
By John Mehaffey U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on professional football players who have protested during the national anthem against racial injustice and police brutality tap into a toxic racist well depressingly familiar to generations of black American...
By Dennis Kabutha Hardly had Kenyans washed the ink off their fingers following their presidential election in August than the Supreme Court nullified the results of the vote and ordered a fresh ballot this month — a momentous ruling for the East African nation...
By Chermaine Tay Islamic State fighters are on the run in Syria, squeezed on all sides by armed opponents whose only common goal is to annihilate the militant group. The eventual defeat of ISIS would be welcomed by their many disparate foes, who range from the Syrian...