The countryside is being cut off because the mobile phone network switches off the 3G signal, leading rural organizations warn. Britain’s mobile networks have started shutting down their 3G services – which allow people to use the internet – in preparation for the rollout of 5G. But data from Ofcom shows that 7 percent of … Read more
The 28-hectare Eternal City is a brand new tourist center designed to mimic a medieval city on the Silk Road – The Image Bank/Getty A smooth-faced border official at Samarkand’s gleaming international airport examined my passport. Standing in his cubicle, dressed in an oversized uniform, he looked at my photo and asked where I was … Read more
A Western narrative is invariably grafted onto Australia’s most prominent Indigenous visual artists – a reductive paradigm that makes them easier to understand, interpret and write about. And as a practitioner at the vanguard of the central desert art movement of the 1970s and 1980s, “Emily” Kam Kngwarray (a white male given name, attributed to … Read more