Two years after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, we hear from colleagues in BBC Ukrainian about life in Kyiv. How different is the new normal from their old lives, and how have they adapted? Daria Taradai and Halyna Korba share their stories.
Sri Lanka's cashew village Kajugama is famous for its cashew nuts, in fact its name means "cashew village" in Sinhala. Many local women depend on selling cashews to make a living, but the business is in decline and they're struggling to earn enough. BBC Sinhala's Shirly Upul Kumara finds out why.
Searching for an identity – Chinese or Indonesian? BBC journalist Trisha Husada has been investigating her own identity as an Indonesian of Chinese descent. In the past, there was pressure on Chinese Indonesians to assimilate, changing their names and abandoning their culture. Trisha tells us what she discovered from talking to friends, relatives and experts about what it means now to be Chinese Indonesian.
The women carpenters of the Hunza valley In the Hunza valley in northern Pakistan, there is an all female carpentry workshop. The work they've undertaken includes the renovation of two of Gilgit Baltistan's ancient forts. Nazish Faiz of BBC Urdu met the women to find out how they got into carpentry.
(Photo: A mural in Kyiv's Podil neighbourhood. Credit: Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images)
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Two villages that lost their sons
Jungle craft and childhood games
Afghanistan’s opium problem
India's women-led households
Manipur’s deadly tribal clashes
Reporting Cyclone Mocha
Leaving Sudan
A lifeline for Sudan
Artists targeted by the state
Uganda's child pregnancy problem
Defending against the death penalty
Indian students returning to Ukraine
Exposing bogus blindness treatments
The Fifth Floor in São Paulo
Aid, politics and Syria’s earthquake
The Belarusians fighting in Ukraine
Reporting Iran's school poisonings
BBC Russian: meet the Riga team
BBC Ukrainian: a year of war
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