Flower / Nicola Piccioli
Even the emperors of the second millenium b.C. and Mao Zedong and the communist party used it to promote their actions, but Chinese calligraphy is an old art with endless applications that is still limited to the most refined and cultured people
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One billion people worldwide suffer from hunger, two billion are suffering from health problems related to obesity. A few experts debated this paradox at Bocconi University in Milan on the occasion of the Forum on nutrition and food
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The poverty line is one of the most feared by governments around the world, that trying to lower it, and most discussed by aid workers, who almost never agree with the official data.
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October is the month in which pink dominates: too early for the fashion show of Victoria’s Secret, the colour comes from the pink ribbons that bring attention to breast cancer,
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They are hardly mentioned on newspapers and it’s hard for many people just to find them on a map: the area between Georgia and Kazakistan is one of the hottest on the planet, it is where one of the most important matches are being played
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La città fantasma di Zhengzhou, Cina
New, modern, functional buildings, broad and well kept roads, huge malls with only few shops: this is the landscape in the Chinese ghost towns.
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Wash for Life
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation recently chose to launch of a strategy to help bring safe, clean, sanitation services to millions of poor people in the developing world.
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According to official surveys they are more than 200 milions: they live in precarious conditions, without a fixed salary, health care assistance, a fixed home and they have problems to find a partner. Chinese migrant workers are the hardest challenge for communist authorities. In the past the migrant flow coming from rural to urban areas was bigger,
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Controlling Space means controlling the Earth: satellites are able to check the planet 24/7. Americans and Russian understood it very well. Since the end of the Fifties to Mid-Seventies they conducted a very expensive war for Space supremacy.
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