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Science and the newsroom

2008-06-10T11:35:09Z

While scanning the Chinese papers for noteworthy stories to translate, I also read some of the English Hong Kong papers. In one of them, in an otherwise forgettable column about the difficulty of translating science to print, the writer summed up ...

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Vietnam Is A Nutshell

2008-01-06T10:48:09Z

Everything inside is nuts. It's been a week or two since I returned from Vietnam. Memories are hazy, like Hanoi, where I ended the trip in a hospital with needles poking out of my arms at the airport, just before I was supposed to go home. I wasn...

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The Lessons You Wish You Learnt

2007-03-26T16:11:52Z

My dear Yasmine wanted me to update my blog more often. So here I am. And today's lessons are as follows: 1. If there is a story waiting to be written, it will have to be written when you have absolutely no time to write it. So write it before ...

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