The Positive News Thread

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No Fly Climate SCI - Meet the Earth scientists, academics, and members of the public who either don’t fly or who fly less

Time for peaceful resistance, says Gaza's new movement

Israel calls them riots, but the man at the centre of recent protests sees them as a rejection of violence

Age no barrier to organic farming ambition in Vietnam's Hoi An

For many visitors to Tra Que Village, meeting its oldest living couple is a real privilege.

It is not because they rarely come out of their little house near a lagoon – they always show up when tourists stop at their vegetable farm. Rather, both of them are so old it is hard to believe they are still incredibly fit and astonishingly mobile.

Le Van So, 94, is a petite man with long white beard and short grey hair. His wife Nguyen Thi Loi, 88, is a smiley, lean-framed woman with no teeth.