Fred Frederikse looks at the Three Waters reform

Dividing Kazakhstan by watershed produced the millispheres of Kazakh, Aral and Balkhash.

Shoddy industrialisation and pursuit of cotton led to dry Aral Sea

He divides it into three millispheres - Aral, Balkhash and Kazak.

Sinai plus Gaza: a millisphere

Fred Frederikse explores Alexandria.

Their "green light district", became one of Copenhagen's main tourist attractions

Lockdown in Berlin with a newborn wasn't much fun for young mum Holly.

Fred Frederikse looks at the RMA and solutions to the mess.

Fred Frederikse casts his travel eye closer to home.

Fred Frederikse looks at the millisphere of Rojava.

Fred Frederikse remembers his time in Hue as the region battles tough economic times.

Fred Frederikse explores the millisphere of Riau

Sulu: where the past overlaps the present

Fred Frederikse looks at another millisphere

Fred Frederikse looks at Oregon

Australia should stop Kiwi deportations, which often separate families.

Lockdowns: A reset for the environment and for quality of life.

Precarious at the best of times, during lockdown, musicians' incomes disappeared.

Poor but stable, Adriatica is not one of Italy's tourism nodes.

Fred Frederikse on the Christchurch Mosque shootings

The old Dutch port area of Semarang is now slowly sinking into the Java Sea

Fred Frederikse and the Millisphere of Bengawan

Venezuela suffers from high levels of crime, corruption, hyperinflation and scarcities

This millisphere is Malang after the largest city in the southern East Java.

Fred Frederikse Mapping the Millisphere, "a new millennium travel story"

The Tengger people coped with the tourist hordes by writing their own development plan.

Upcoming elections will determine if Jakarta moves forwards or regresses.

The occupation of Iran's London embassy in 1980 was by Arab separatists from Khuzestan.

The Chinese-created police state in Uyghurstan has led to mass human rights violations.

Let's twist again like we did in 1960 — and raise funds to upgrade a landmark building.

That the world would be a better place without "the great powers" is hard to deny.

Between foreign soldiers and gangsters, Ukrainians are between a rock and a hard place.

Belgian Congo province of Equateur has had an outbreak of the ebola virus

Set Muslim against Muslim and sell weapons to create jobs

Burning plastic: toxic, smelly, frowned upon ... but is it the way forward?

Uruguay now rates first in South America for democracy, peace and press freedom.

Overpopulation, coupled with land growing export crops, raises the spectre of famine.

In the country there was no food problem but no money for essentials like medicine.

The musos' club has plans for a repower, a new roof, a wheelchair toilet and an "OP" group

Britain captured French-speaking Quebec in 1763; the issue of its independence is ongoing.

The Boundaries were imposed by "Great Powers", not by the migratory hunters and gatherers.

More migrants bound for Europe die crossing the Sahara than crossing the Mediterranean.

One rainwater head made a satisfying sucking sound as I pulled out handfuls of wet needles

Despite its mineral and horticultural riches, CAR is one of the world's poorest countries.

Boat people find the Corsicans less than welcoming and try to carry on to mainland Europe.

Columnist Fred Frederikse dicusses gardening

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame is genuinely popular, although his enemies "tend to die".

Billy the Kid, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Harvey Weinstein: all New Yorkers.

In a city of 200 languages, 50% of New Yorkers speak a tongue other than English at home.

In Russia someone would just put another swing up in one of the trees further downriver.

A girl in South Africa is more likely to be raped than to complete secondary school.

Jim, the driving force behind the forging of the Alliance, was a force to be reckoned with

Driving in Auckland with a caravan is a challenge, but I'd worked as a truck driver there.

The new US embassy in London -- iron fist in a green glove

On one hand we have couples in ersatz mansions and on the other people living in cars.

Co-operation and open borders secure unity of 'Little Britain'

Times are changing in Lebanon, but the political world outside it is much the same.

Most of the fastest-growing populations are in sub-Saharan Africa; the slowest in Europe.

Newly-opened Te Awahou Nieuwe Stroom tells the story of iwi and the Dutch settlers.

Tourists in Vietnam are better to get off the well-tridden tourist routes.

The population of Beijing hit 14 million in 2004 and has grown by half as much again since

Based on the number of tourists killed in Islamist bombings, Jogja is much safer than Bali

"Progress is made one funeral at a time," the old hippie said sagely.

An ancient people in an ancient land are still fighting for their rights.

"If Scotland can have an independence referendum, why can't we?" sauid the Catalans.

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Tasman called is Nieuw-Zeeland and the Dutch have been making a mark on NZ ever since

Which wannabe Whanganui MP was a school lunch monitor

The Houston flooding disaster is a perfect storm of economics, population and land use.

Oop North -- a look at the millisphere of Yorkshire

The Whanganui Musicians' Club takes the challenges along with the kudos.

President Duterte vows to pardon himself for mass murder at the end of his six-year term.