Cambodia’s Siem Reap province, home to the famous Angkor Wat temple, is the only place in Cambodia, outside the capital Phnom Penh, which has a fast growing economy. The floods of tourist who come to see one of the wonders of the world, Angkor Wat, exceeds half a million people per year lately. Angkor Wat [...]

The recent high energy prices and the discovery of new clean-coal technologies are leading to an unexpected revival of the coal industry in Wales.

The Vale of Neath, South Wales, has maintained its predominant position in the history and production of coal since the Industrial Revolution in mid-nineteenth century.
In 1984 and 1985, with [...]

HAITI | FALL 2008
Since 1804, when it became the world’s first black republic after a successful slave revolt, Haiti has seen few periods of stability. Today the small Caribbean nation faces the most significant challenges of any country in the Western Hemisphere. In this failed state severe poverty, endemic corruption, high unemployment, pervasive hunger, and [...]

Images taken whilst spending 24 hours with a group of commercial pole fishermen in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Addu Atoll in the Maldives. Commercial fishing in the Maldives is done by catching small bait fish with nets off the side of fishing dhonis at night. With the bait fish caught, the fishing [...]

”Mediterranean as it once was”? Yes, the nature is still here and still one of the most beautiful in Europe but how about people living in Croatia? Well, thats another story.

Imagine living in a country with a salary of about 450 – 500 Euro a month (a average bartenders or salesmen’s [...]

The converse of China’s rapid construction and development is a huge, patchwork demolition economy. In order to make room for the high-rises and hypermarkets, the country’s narrow residential alleyways (hutongs) and other fixtures of Old China need to be razed and repurposed. The old buildings are marked, and then come the heavy machines and scavengers [...]