Feature Stories

I admit it, I’m a bit of a language nerd. One of my friends and a previous colleague of mine often sends me language memes and I get quite passionate in teaching my A-Level English Language class. In that...

You may be tired of hearing it on the news, every time you press the remote control. Climate change is a serious issue that has been plaguing our society for decades; its effects adding massive levels of greenhouse gases...

As an English teacher, I have to fight my natural urge to mock and demean geography, at least as a school subject.  It is all too easy to dismiss it as “colouring in maps” and quizzes about flags, (although I...

Leaving Pakistan, she smiled back at the no-nonsense woman at the security checkpoint who waved her through, “Mashallah, your outfit is beautiful, sister!”, she exclaimed. “I hope you come back soon.” She thought how 10 years ago, she didn’t...

We are all on the move. The Earth orbits the sun, spins around on its own axis. The wind blows, trees waver in its breeze; waves rise and fall, seawater evaporates into the clouds, and drops back down in...

Stepping off a Nanjing Metro train that has come into Nanjing South Railway Station from Lukou International Airport, there is immediately noticeable the several individuals who sprint the 15 metres or so across the platform to board an awaiting...

Let me set the scene…  I’m sitting outside Nanjing Railway Station on a slightly chilly November morning sipping on my Americano; too hot and bitter but I need it at this time of morning; and munching down my morning “baozi”....

The porter opened the caravanserai gates reluctantly. The rider was unusual. Caravans rode on a relay. They loaded priceless porcelains and sensuous silks in crates, onto the humps of Bactrian camels, rode west for days or weeks to the nearest...