17 Postcards From Our Correspondents Around the World in 2017
21, 2017
Correspondents for The New York Times reported from more than 140 countries this year,
covering war, terrorism, political upheaval, natural disaster and social change.
Most of these stories were what we call "journals" — a longstanding weekday feature by Times correspondents around the world
that aims to bring readers to places they haven’t been, in the hope of offering insight into a place and culture.
A small hip-hop festival on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Chengdu reveals
how hip-hop, once an underground subculture, has stormed the Chinese mainstream.
Fahim Abed, an Afghan reporter for The Times, followed Mohammed Rahim Khaksar as he tried
to deliver the notice for a package for one Atta Mohammed — a common Afghan name.
The weirdest town in Canada’s Yukon Territory might be Keno City, a gold-rush-era relic with about a dozen full-time residents, tap water not fit for human consumption
and two bars whose owners haven’t been on speaking terms for more than a decade.
It marked the country’s celebration of its 100th birthday (or, more accurately, the centennial
of its current political structure) in a way that no single event marked its 150th this year.
