Thursday, 9 September 2010

PATTERNS

H. NIZAM
Your car stolen? Carpark owners can now be held responsible. In Indonesia, that is.
H. NIZAM
Domestic workers in Indonesia and abroad face mental and physical abuse from their employers.
JEROME LIM
A Singaporean remembers the floods in the tiny city-state in 1969 and 1978, when things were very different.
SOPHEAP CHAK
Violence, drunkenness, sex… It’s not just the Vatican, similar scandals are rocking the Buddhist world, too.
KEY
What, or how long, does it take you to buy a property in China? This MTV has the answers.
CLARISSA TAN
I long for the days when we can all be free of this absurd, pointless, bad-tasting, gruesomely unhealthy and astonishingly wasteful pastry.
YUEN CHUNG-KWONG
Meet the biggest names in China’s contemporary literary scene, from Chun Shu to Han Han.
XUJUN EBERLEIN
A matchmaking show has become China’s top-rated TV programme, thanks in part to a now infamous participant who said she’d rather cry in a BMW than ride on a bike.
MARI KANAZAWA
It’s cheap, it’s useful – and it’s the No. 1 lost property item in Japan. Get your clear vinyl umbrella now!
DEEPAK ADHIKARI
On average, two dead Nepal workers return every day in coffins from the Gulf and Malaysia. Why?
ERIC MU
Dining is more than food for the body; it is food for the soul. At Minjian Soup Restaurant, our blogger Eric Mu gets more – the art of really living life.
Staff Writer
With hundreds of students competing for that one job, one guy had no choice but to resort to this – the “negative salary”.