asia! through Asian Eyes

A construction migrant worker’s notes
Being a Nepali in India
Feast of the Black Nazarene
Double eyelids, anyone?

A construction migrant worker’s notes
A young migrant worker updates a post of his raw, yet I found to be truthful and insightful notes while... [more]
Being a Nepali in India
Some may prefer to blend in with the crowd, but blogger and journalist, Dinesh Wagle, just wants to be a... [more]
Feast of the Black Nazarene
Celebrated every 9th of January, the Feast of the Black Nazarene is a wooden sculpture of Jesus Christ held to... [more]
Double eyelids, anyone?
A visit to the plastic surgeon – and a first-hand look into the pursuit of beauty and youth in China.... [more]

PEOPLE

When you walk the streets of Singapore, prowl the malls or ride in the train, it isn’t unusual to overhear conversations in Filipino. There are, after all, about a hundred thousand Filipinos in Singapore.

Folk who live on the shore

A Malaysian author remembers the people who lived where the land met the sea, before Trengganu became Terengganu.

PERSPECTIVES

Discovering the Chinese Mind through Chinese Food

Have you noticed that Chinese food and Chinese thinking have a lot to do with each other?

Ponari and the Sorceror's Stone

A little boy’s miracle-working sheds light on the hunger for salvation amongst ordinary people.

PATTERNS

Siam, the cradle of humankind?

An ancient ape fossil found in a Krabi coal mine links earliest man to Thailand.

Campaign jingle

The number one preoccupation for 2010 politics can take over Number 1, in the politicization of urination in the Philippines (if you know what I mean).