COVID-19 is forcing us to adapt to rapidly evolving circumstances. Two News-Decoder correspondents recount their challenges. People stand in designated areas in an elevator as a social distancing effort, Surabaya, Indonesia, 19 March 2020 (AP Photo/Trisnadi) Two of...
As the coronavirus crisis deepens, we confront a most basic question: Will we survive this? We tapped our correspondents for their thoughts. An emergency hospital during the Spanish flu epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas, circa 1918 (Wikimedia Commons/National Museum of...
Are the frustrations and joys of New York’s subway unique to my home city? A summer criss-crossing Paris in its metro answered my question. As a New Yorker, I am familiar with the dirt and delays that can define a commuter’s experience in a city where 5.4...
Ashamed of flying because it worsens your carbon footprint? You’re not alone if you want to ride the rails — as I recently did when my life took a turn. (French countryside viewed from a TGV fast train. Video and photo by Sarah Edmonds) I am suffering an...
Away from the hustle, an ancient rite unfolds in a Shanghai park. Parents looking to hitch offspring post want ads in a marriage mart. (Photo by Betty Fu) It’s a poignant ritual, played out every weekend in a shady corner of a Shanghai park. In People’s Park, scores...
By Kaitlyn-Lee Mun It was a Sunday afternoon in early June at Hong Kong’s Kowloon Park. Cicadas buzzed incessantly, delivering a deafening chorus. On this humid day, the air like soup, people gathered to watch a weekly Kung Fu performance. I was in the crowd,...
Wet markets are an integral part of Hong Kong’s culture and communities. But will they survive as China’s economy modernizes? (Photo courtesy of Madison Wong) I’ve grown up in Canada and, despite being Asian-Canadian, had never stepped foot in Asia...
Maggie Fox witnessed the toppling of a president and war in the Balkans. For this News-Decoder correspondent, journalism “is the coolest job ever.” Fox holding a T-shirt reading “Another Meddling Foreign Journalist” in the Philippines in 1986 This is the...
This is the final installment of a six-part ghost story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from the author’s new book, Dead but Still Kicking. *** Rustammy brings Dewi out of the trance, and this time it seems like Farida has genuinely left....
This is the fifth installment of a six-part ghost story by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, excerpted exclusively from the author’s new book, Dead but Still Kicking. In the first installment, the Geneva-based author took us to Indonesia to meet the sultan of a city...