By a Toronto Review correspondent* There were a lot of rumours and a lot of fear following the July 4, 2009 riots in Urumqi, the capital of China’s northwest Muslim province of Xinjiang. But by September of that year, the restrictions being placed on the city’s denizens — even during Ramadan, a tense period at [...]

The far from democratic state is still recovering from the 1994 genocide, where as many as one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered. A photo essay by reporter Debra Black.

Nepal’s peace is proving to be more fragile than originally hoped and this year has seen tension.

Thousands of unofficial Santas flooded Williamsburg, Brooklyn in early December for New York City’s annual SantaCon. The Bedford L subway stop overflowed with stumbling, red-clad participants as they made their way to the Manhattan stop as part of the day-long convention.

Three haunting photos from a rainy day in Hong Kong. By Laura Fitch, The Review’s Senior Editor for China.