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Adventure road: 7 days on Central Asia's Pamir Highway

Edit CNN 24 May 2016
To the south lay Afghanistan and the fabled Wakhan Corridor ... Under the hotel owner's guidance we drew up a rough, seven-day itinerary that would lead us along the Pamir Highway and into the Wakhan Valley, on the Afghan border ... The scenery would stay that way until we reached the lush Wakhan Valley ... The Wakhan Corridor -- a narrow, finger-like stretch ......

Cannes: Indie Sales adds social thriller 'Corporate' to slate 

Edit Screen Daily 09 May 2016
EXCLUSIVE ... UCR jury member Céline Sallette stars ... The company’s previous credits include Clement Cogitore’s Afghanistan-set Wakhan Front, aka Neither Heaven Nor Earth, which premiered at Cannes Critic’s week in 2015 and won the best first feature award at the COLCOA French Film Festival inLos Angeles last month ... ....

China evacuates residents after Afghanistan quake felt in Xinjiang

Edit China Daily 11 Apr 2016
Rescuers have carried out door-to-door checks in villages in Hotan, Kashgar, and Kizilsu Kirgiz prefectures. No casualties have been reported. In Atjiayili Village located in Wakhan Corridor, the closest Chinese village to Afghanistan, rescue teams aided by border guards and police helped evacuate villagers whose houses are prone to quake damage ... ....

Growing Terrorism Risk Leads China to Boost Role in Afghanistan

Edit Bloomberg 11 Apr 2016
As China watches Afghan peace talks flounder and Islamic militants in parts of its troubled neighbor, Beijing is taking its most concrete steps yet toward assuming a direct security role in the country ... It remains unclear how China’s proposal would work ... 29 ... The obstacles are immense ... Taliban Gains ... China and Afghanistan share only a 92-kilometer (57 mile) border, including the ancient Silk Road trade passage known as the Wakhan Corridor....

Approaching 81, MOMA REELS Out Great Film!

Edit Huffington Post 03 Feb 2016
... Behemoth (China/France), Marcin Wrona's Demon (Poland/Israel), Anna Rose Holmer's The Fits (USA), Pietro Marcello's Lost and Beautiful (Italy/France), Yaelle Kayam's Mountain (Denmark/Israel), Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull (Brazil/Uruguay/Netherlands), Raam Reddy's Thithi (India/USA/Canada), and Cl�ment Cogitore's The Wakhan Front (France/Belgium)....

'The Land of the Enlightened'

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 25 Jan 2016
“Snowtime!” The Land of the Enlightened HHHhj Luminous cinematography illustrates a horrific life for children in Afghanistan, in the powerful documentary “The Land of the Enlightened.” In the northern Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, in what the locals call “The Roof of the World,” a gang of nomadic children engage in a rough and dangerous economy ... ....

Micro Porcupines to Snow Leopards: WCS's Favorite Wildlife Photos of 2015

Edit Yahoo Daily News 05 Jan 2016
the Bronx Zoo, Central Park Zoo, New York Aquarium, Prospect Park Zoo and Queens Zoo. The authors contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices. Op-Ed & Insights ... From the zoo ... (Credit ... A snow leopard rubs up for a great camera-trap pic in the Hindu Kush Mountains in the Wakhan Corrido … ... A snow leopard rubs up for a great camera-trap pic in the Hindu Kush Mountains in the Wakhan Corridor of Badakhshan Province....

Seeyouatmidnight secures Cheltenham win in Novices' Chase

Edit BBC News 01 Jan 2016
Share this page. Share this with Copy this link http.//www.bbc.co.uk/sport/horse-racing/35210502. Read more about sharing. Seeyouatmidnight won the BetBright Novices' Chase in front of more than 34,000 people at Cheltenham. The 7-2 winner led from the outset and finished three-and-a-quarter lengths ahead of Blaklion in second. It was the first of two victories for trainer Sandy Thomson's team, after Wakhan came in at Musselburgh ... Search ... ....

Minister of Public Works met with the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China (Ministry ...

Edit Public Technologies 14 Dec 2015
(Source ... - said Minister of Public works ... Minister of Public Works also emphasized on studies of Wakhan corridors of Afghanistan which directly connect the country with China ... The new Ambassador of the Republic of China besides emphasizing on the cooperation between the two countries in the field of infrastructure and a five-sided agreement, also promised to follow up over the Wakhan corridors issue with Chinese companies ... (noodl....

Williams to strike 'killa blow

Edit Sporting Life 09 Dec 2015
CHELMSFORD. 4.05 Coral Island, 4.40 Zauffaly, 5.10 SECOND WAVE (NAP), 5.40 Bromyard, 6.10 Falsify, 6.40 Declan, 7.10 Diamond Sam. NEWCASTLE. 12.20 Cracked Rear View, 12.50 Ballycool, 1.20 Cruachan, 1.50 Got The Nac, 2.20 Clan Legend, 2.50 Wakhan, 3.20 Bambys Boy. PUNCHESTOWN. 12.25 Blazer, 12.55 Do Be Doin', 1.25 Quiet Account, 1.55 Thomas Hobson, 2.25 Min, 2.55 Danali, 3.25 All About Alfie. TAUNTON ... WARWICK ... DOUBLE ... ....

Walking the Himalayas (Channel Four Television Corporation)

Edit Public Technologies 01 Dec 2015
(Source. Channel Four Television Corporation). Levison Wood sets out on his four-month challenge to trek 1,700 miles (some 4 million steps) along the length of the Himalayas. He begins his journey in Afghanistan's remote Wakhan corridor, where the mountains first rise in the west ... But first they have to find some donkeys to carry their equipment ... Life in this barren, desolate place is incredibly tough ... ENDS. Series Producer and Director....

China's Ambitions in Asia

Edit Huffington Post 13 Nov 2015
China's assertiveness and outright projection of power in the South China Sea is only one component of its greater goal of domination in Asia ... The U.S. Navy recently dispatched The Lassen, a guided missile destroyer, to the area ... The U.S ... Afghanistan shares a small but important border with China in the rugged extreme northeast of the Wakhan corridor located in Badakhshan province ... Afghan Chinese Border in Wakhan ... share a common goal ... ....

Afghanistan's rural lives of the Wakhan Corridor's nomadic tribes revealed

Edit The Daily Mail 10 Nov 2015
Nestled in north eastern Afghanistan, the region’s 12,000 residents live similarly to how their ancestors did centuries ago, farming and living off the land and their animals ... ....
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