wedging through light traffic

A word or two on traffic.

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May 31st 2017
Sitting in the passenger seat of a cab where there should be a steering wheel. Heading off from the airport on the wrong side of the road, fingers biting into the plastic dashboard as people on bikes and in small metal boxes on wheels approach perilously close to the windscreen through which my ‘MadMax’ eyeballs gaze. Travelling in convoy at speeds of up to 65km (but seeming like 95km) we fina ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more