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McIlwraith's Electronic Magazine
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Stories of the strange and unusual from around the world; it's almost all true...
Recent Posts
A Chamber of Horrors in Changchun
Changchun is famous for being the place where the Last Emperor of China, Pu Yi, was installed as the Puppet Emperor during the Japanese occupation of North East China. But it is also the site of the horrors inside Unit 100......
Like Hollywood, but without the hills
When I toured Changchun Film Studio in the early 1990s it was in a pretty sorry state. But it was only just emerging from a pretty bleak creative period in Chinese film history - as the plot of the 1978 film Pine Ridge illustrates....
Riding the Green Snake
Khartoum's Street Kids are a pretty tough lot. They have to be. Their life is hard and brutal. This is a story of some of these kids and how they ride the Green Snake from Khartoum to Port Sudan...
Looks a bit like a House!
After what seems an age, my house in Bulgaria is looking more like a place someone might want to live in. Here are some pictures of it being closed down for winter....
A Week in Utopia
My work recently took me to North Korea. Here are a few pictures of my visit in the company of Mr Li and Mr Kim....
New palang? Well, I've got a new parang...
There are many reasons to die. Most are unremarkable. Some are sad. But a few are so tragic they are almost comical. Here's one of the latter......
