My Byline Is a Lie

Fourteen years ago, I asked my father about my last name, “Rusli.” I wanted to know…

The History Behind Korea’s Secret Gold Temple.

A Very Regal Asylum.

Cambodia’s first retirement home

Migration and aging in one of Asia’s youngest countries

Beauty in Korea: A Cute Conformity?

Liposuction goes loveable.

Taiwan’s Democratic Crisis

The Sunflower Movement One Month on 

TO ANY CLOSE OBSERVER of Taiwanese-Chinese cross-strait relations, it will come as no surprise that Taiwan’s Sunflower movement failed to capture international attention. Part of it was just bad…

The ungrateful Malaysian

Part 2: How citizenship as a privilege shapes fundamentalist nationalism

Gods, guitars and a budding global enterprise

How a traditional Balinese wood carver became a high-end…

The ungrateful Malaysian

Part 1: Pirate princes, scattered kingdoms and lost majesty

Where rape is a weapon

In a remote Myanmar village, two women are murdered in the middle of the night

When fishermen become ‘prisoners of war’

On the murky coastal borders dividing India and Pakistan…