http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/this-man-gave-up-a-successful-business-to-run-ancient-silk-road-from-hamburg-to German management consultant Kai Markus (centre) being helped across the finish line by friends at the Shanghai International port on Dec 16, 2017. PHOTO: AFP PUBLISHED DEC 17, 2017, 3:37 PM SGT FACEBOOK47 TWITTER WHATSAPP EMAIL SHANGHAI (AFP) - The world today is enough to make some people want to get up and just run to the ends of the Earth, so that's what Kai Markus decided to do. Troubled by what he sees as growing bigotry and division in the world, the German management consultant gave up a successful business to run the ancient Silk Road from Hamburg to Shanghai in a Quixotic quest to show that we are all one. Nine months, eight countries, 12,000 km and two fractured heel bones later, Markus hobbled across a symbolic finish line in Shanghai on Saturday with a feeling of mission accomplished. "OK, the world is turning crazy, you have to do som
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