In October the army captured eight counties in western Fukien and established a “Committee on the Rehabilitation of Western Fukien” (Min-hsi shan-hou wei-yuan-hui) at Lung-yen.

I waited too late to book my holiday flight, so I had to take the red-eye.

The car jerked away just as Piyal was knocked down, and looking up the last he saw was so many downstriking, hammering feet.

Without the anticryptic benefit of their spots, leopards would go hungry.