The History Behind Korea’s Secret Gold Temple.

A Very Regal Asylum.

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

The ungrateful Malaysian

Part 1: Pirate princes, scattered kingdoms and lost majesty

In Indonesia, a strip mall shophouse becomes a church

Pressure from hardline Islamists has forced many…

India’s Dairy Farms: a new hope

In a country where about three quarters of the population live in…

An interesting taxi driver 

He had a full set of adult teeth until he was 69

HE first started driving a taxi in 1992. It has been 18 years.

All Souls’ Day

In an area of the Philippines devastated by Typhoon Haiyan, All Souls’ Day takes on…

Civis Romanus sum

The responsibility and rewards of citizenship

So great is the power of Rome that any citizen harmed, or judged by anyone other than Caesar, would face the full strength of the Roman Empire. Granted, those who witnessed this power are no…