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"The Newest Strategy For Saving Bees Is Really, Really Old"

"In northwestern India, the Himalaya Mountains rise sharply out of pine and cedar forests. The foothills of the Kullu Valley are blanketed with apple trees beginning to bloom. It’s a cool spring morning, and Lihat Ram, a farmer in Nashala village, shows me a small opening in a log hive propped against his house. Stout black-and-yellow native honeybees — Apis cerana — fly in and out."

Source: Ensia, 02/17/2016
April 15, 2024

DEADLINE: Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia

The Asia Society's annual "Oz Prize" of $10,000 is awarded to a reporter or team of reporters who has produced the best example of journalism about Asia during the calendar year. Evaluation criteria include impact of the work, its originality, creativity, depth of research and educational value in informing the public about Asia. Deadline: Apr 15, 2024.

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As China Hungers for Coal, ‘Behemoth’ Studies the Ravages at the Source

"BEIJING — The artist and filmmaker Zhao Liang has shed light on some of the darkest corners of Chinese society, filming in locations as obscure as a shantytown here known as the 'petitioners’ village' and a military police office on the North Korean border."

Source: NY Times, 12/30/2015

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