Asian Geographic 3 - 2016 SG

They wear pink saris, wield sticks and don’t hesitate to use violence in their fight for women’s rights. These are the ladies of ...

“For every case reported there is at least another one who has suffered in silence” leFt Sampat Pal Devi, founder of the Gulabi ...

41 PHOTO © MIGUEL CANDELA police did not carry out any investigation and no media showed interest in her story. INDI A’S SHOCK I ...

PHOTO © MIGUEL CANDELA 42 the Gulabi Gang, located in the small town of Badausa. Created in 2006, this association in which abou ...

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“I became interested in the work of groups who said they were seeking women’s liberation. But I realised that they could not mee ...

Narasamma Harijana hugs her daughter Navaneetha, who at 15 years old was matchmaked with her uncle Female-FRienDlY initiatives a ...

The discovery of a new moth species, the Endoclita fahringeri, in the mountains of Gunung Leuser in Sumatera, Indonesia is provi ...

Mycalesis at the forest edge. One morning, a high alpine butterfly even chose to sunbathe on our tent. It was a Dodona robinsoni ...

The Gunung Leuser mountain range were once part of Gondwanaland, the southerly supercontinent that existed approximately 300 mil ...

ALFRED FAHRINGER spent two weeks at the Gunung Leuser National Park in August 2014. He is an avid butterfly collector since age ...

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Remembering Singapore’s Renaissance woman, Sylvia Kho (1917–2013) Te x t Khong Swee Lin Photos Justin Ong { sinGaPoRe } Who was ...

oPeninG sPReaD An Elizabethan-inspired gown with leg of mutton sleeves, embroidered with French chantilly lace and seed pearls T ...

FaR below Precious wedding photos of Sylvia’s family dressed in her gown designs below Sylvia started the trend of wearing summe ...

The second world war The arrival of the second world war touched Sylvia in a series of remarkable events. Sinister 7 December 19 ...

below The long and elaborate train of a Sylvia Kho gown on display above Sylvia’s sewing machine on display at The Peranakan Mus ...

In these circumstances, as Sylvia’s family was in Malaya, going back was not an option. She, as well as the brave medical and no ...