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Editor’s note: After a decade away from her ancestral family village in central Henan province, writer and literary scholar Liang Hong returned in 2008-2009 to conduct interviews and see for herself ...

There's a clearing in the jungle in central Liberia that now serves as an Ebola burial ground. Every day, a woman who works as a nurse in the nearby Ebola treatment unit, or ETU, changes from her ...

MBALE, eastern Uganda — Meridah Nandudu brews a medium roast coffee at the headquarters of Bayaaya Specialty Coffee, a company she founded and runs. "Medium roast is my favorite," she says, taking a ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — In the center of their home, Zhou Qundan and her husband, Lang Gengqiang, have decorated an entire wall with photographs. Most are what you’d expect: pictures of the couple’s ...

For four nights, the people of this ruined mountain village have slept in the cold, surrounded by hundreds of freshly dug graves and the cries of people injured in the weekend earthquake. There is no ...

STEBBINS, Alaska — No gun. No training. $14 an hour. If there were better jobs to be had, city police officers in this Bering Strait village say they’d apply for them. But working as a village police ...