Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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Real voices: How locals interpret 'doomsday'
Dec 14, 2012
According to the ancient Mayan civilisation, December 21, 2012, represents the end of a cycle in the Mayan long count calendar that begins in the year 3114 BC. Doomsday believers expect a cataclysmic event to occur that day and end the world. But how do Hong Kong people see the looming doomsday prophecy?
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