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BFF – Best Fandom Forever?!

A love letter to the V-Pop fandom culture in Vietnam Absence makes the heart grow fonder —or so, it seems! When Vietnam’s Yeah1 media group announced the discontinuation of two of...

Lou Reed in Brazil

Black and white photographs in a Brazilian market send a writer down a rabbit hole into music legend The Brazilian city of Juiz de Fora, in the state of Minas...

Culture Behind Bars

On the margins of Tunisia’s largest film festival, a journalist looks at the challenges to an ongoing experiment in the country’s prisons December 2024 in Tunis, Cité de Culture: “The...

Warm waters, closing nets

How climate change is driving dolphins into deadly contact with fishing fleets in the Bay of Biscay In this article for the French daily newspaper Libération, journalist Julie Renson Miquel reports...

A hectare of heaven?

As Thailand’s Salween River joins a growing list of contaminated waterways in the country, a new investigation asks why the state keeps managing damage, while refusing to confront its source...

When a river becomes forbidden

As Thailand’s Salween River joins a growing list of contaminated waterways in the country, a new investigation asks why the state keeps managing damage, while refusing to confront its source...

The fires we don’t see

While LA burned this January, fires at the other end of the Americas have fed a long-running political battle in Patagonia In January 2025, the Anglosphere was transfixed by the...

Whitewashing the German countryside?

A French take on the rise of the ‘ecologically minded’ extreme-right in Germany Evil doesn’t die; it reinvents itself. Following the worrying results of last September’s local elections in Saxony—where...

Ursa major

An investigative report into Europe’s growing bear population and how it is being (mis)managed Most Europeans – particularly in western Europe – have never seen a bear in the wild....

Tracking Temu

A Swedish newspaper uncovers the dystopian world of Temu and Shein returns – with photographs Colin Huang, a 44-year-old former Google engineer and graduate of the University of Wisconsin is...

The Voice of the Mountains

Community radio is a lifeline for Q’eqchi speakers in Guatemala – and a target for the powerful In most parts of the world, the hegemonic role of radio as the...

Being a trans teenager in Taiwan

A Taiwanese reporter interviews transgender teenagers about the challenges they face from the medical system Following the legalisation of gay marriage in 2019 – the first Asian country to do...

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