When 500m becomes a 10,000km odyssey

Compiled by LIEW JIA XIAN, GERARD GIMINO and R. ARAVINTHAN

A YOUNG woman from Heilongjiang, China, who wished to be known only as Ning, said she would have to travel more than 10,000km to get to her university, Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University in Russia, yet the university is only 500m across the border from her home.