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• Slice of life: A reporter's search for knives in Beijing
• She bears witness to South Sudan's turbulence, one headline at a time
• Meanwhile in ... Laos, a drive continues to make this Southeast Asian nation a ‘chess capital’

Slice of life: A reporter's search for knives in Beijing Posted: 04 Oct 2018 07:35 AM PDT Two days after landing back in China, I am wandering through a bustling Beijing supermarket like a child in a candy shop, snatching up the spices and fresh ingredients I need to cook favorite Chinese dishes. The mood in the market is equally festive, as it is the eve of China's Oct. 1 National Day and the "Golden Week" holiday – a rare official seven-day respite from work. Having lived in Beijing and Hong Kong as a young reporter, I'd learned to love homestyle Chinese food.

She bears witness to South Sudan's turbulence, one headline at a time Posted: 04 Oct 2018 05:41 AM PDT On the bottom shelves of a slumping metal cabinet, beneath a wad of receipts and a lifeless old laptop, sits a first draft of South Sudan's history, told in bold print headlines. Some days, that means bartering with soldiers to let her colleagues out of jail. On others, it means haggling over the price of petrol needed to keep the office generator running.

Meanwhile in ... Laos, a drive continues to make this Southeast Asian nation a ‘chess capital’ Posted: 04 Oct 2018 03:00 AM PDT Laos, a drive continues to make this Southeast Asian nation a 'chess capital.' Six years ago, the country launched a "Chess in Schools" program to train as many young Laotians as possible in the art of the game. This year Laos hosted its first international chess tournament. Ha Mamathe, Lesotho, Senate Masupha is campaigning to change the laws of the land.

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