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The Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan triggers memories for a young man whose father was, along with thousands of other Ukrainian workers, sent by the Soviet government to help clean up after the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986.
ROSTISLAV GOLYAK
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Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, thousands of White Russians made Old Shanghai their home away from home. Maria Maximova searches for remnants of the enclave.
MARIA MAXIMOVA
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Fleeing from the Bolsheviks, thousands of White Russians made Old Shanghai their home away from home. Maria Maximova searches for remnants of the enclave.
MARIA MAXIMOVA
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The most extensive is between Beijing and Moscow (in either direction), spanning almost 10,000 kilometres—one third around the world!—eight time zones, and a dazzling kaleidoscope of landscapes and cultures. If you only take one rail journey in your life, this has to be it.
AUDREY CHEN
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The hunt for new sources of energy on the Moon is propelling a new space race.
LEE HAN SHIH
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How nations divide up the Arctic could set precedence for the Moon.
LEE HAN SHIH
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Thanks to the US preoccupation with Iraq, China now has a good chance to be the first nation to put a woman on the moon.
LEE HAN SHIH
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In November 2003 India celebrated the 40th anniversary of its space programme. The celebration attracted little attention outside the country, even among space enthusiasts. Everyone else was too busy soaking up the implication of China’s first manned space flight, which was launched successfully in October and placed China as the third space power after the US and Russia.
LEE HAN SHIH
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America’s lunar programme has always been a male-dominated affair. Even its name, Apollo, is that of a male deity, the Greek god of the sun.
LEE HAN SHIH
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Marriages between Eastern men and Western women provide a look at what happens when worlds collide.
MARIA MAXIMOVA
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