A proposed port on Colombia’s Pacific coast reveals a stark choice between protecting natural wonder for ecotourism and increasing trade with China and elsewhere Andrés Bermúdez Liévano October 21, 2019 Whale-watching is a mainstay of the local economy where Tribugá port may be built (Image: Natalia Botero / Fundación Macuáticos Colombia) With government backing and eyes on boosting trade with China, a group of Colombian businesspeople
Insights into progress and future plans from Liu Feng, secretary general of the China Ocean Mineral Resources Research and Development Association (COMRA) Wang Yan October 18, 2019 Submersible Qianlong III ascends after diving 3,955 metres (Image: Alamy） Opening an app on his mobile phone, Liu Feng, secretary general of COMRA, showed a real-time map indicating the tracks and positions of all China-owned vessels conducting seabed mining
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Veteran stress-management expert Loretta Laroche grew up in a Sicilian household in Brooklyn, surrounded by a village of family, friends, and close neighbors. In this hilarious and insightful TEDx Talk, she reflects on how they handled stress collectively by laughing, eating, and simply being together. She also shares her simple process for finding our “inner sitcom,” that allows us to use humor to lighten up.
A French theater director crowdsourced his dream BY EMILY MONACO * OCTOBER 22, 2019 A little clever engineering turned a tiny house into a roving bookstore. EMILY MONACO JEAN-JACQUES MEGEL-NUBER DIDN’T ALWAYS IMAGINE he’d be living in his bookshop, but he knew he wanted it to move. At first, he pictured an itinerant bookstore on a boat. Or in a chalet—appropriate, given his Alsatian roots—but one that was towed
October 25, 2019, By Vietnam Weekly Being a film fan in Vietnam is tough. Clean, modern cinemas are all over the place and you can see an IMAX movie for about US$7, but the quality of domestic productions remains extremely spotty, while almost no European/Latin American movies are released and we tend to only get Hollywood's action blockbusters or animated family movies. This time of year back in the US is an embarrassment of riches when it comes
