Tuesday, 9 February 2010

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

PERSPECTIVES

Have you noticed that Chinese food and Chinese thinking have a lot to do with each other?
A little boy’s miracle-working sheds light on the hunger for salvation amongst ordinary people.

PATTERNS

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