Asian Geographic 3 - 2016 SG

sirens began to sound and bombs began dropping. Then seemingly out of nowhere, a British officer drove up and offered to escort ...

leFt Sylvia’s niece, Susan, wearing a Swiss lace dress on her wedding day in 1984 below At the height of her career, Sylvia trav ...

KHONG SWEE LIN is a docent at The Peranakan Museum, Malay Heritage Centre, Indian Heritage Centre and Gillman Barracks Outreach. ...

PHOTO © HULTON ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAGES Stark’s Early Childhood The child of Bohemian painters, she spent her early years dragged ar ...

The Valleys of the Assassins established Freya Stark as one of her generation’s most prolific explorers. The book chronicles her ...

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” light – three baggage mules, two ...

“To feel, and think, and learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense” FaR leFt Stark’s signature on a h ...

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” structure of the militant Muslim Brotherhood, already th ...

SOPHIE IBBOTSON is an entrepreneur and international business consultant. She is the founder of Maximum Exposure UK and Panorama ...

Women of Gaza A LIFE CHOKED WITH ADVERSITY ALONG THE GAZA STRIP Text Nigel O’Connor Palestinian mothers often lose a son or a fa ...

leFt A lady wearing a niqab, a face veil, while shopping at a market in Gaza bottom leFt Three generations of women at home in G ...

For creative young women seeking a measure of independence, social pressure to conform adds another layer to the claustrophobic ...

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PHOTO © GI DRONE The case of Brahmaputra isn’t unique – and the global nature of these water issues is what French photographer ...

above Chiranjit Payeng, 25, with his wife Rima and son Raj. Their house in Majuli Island was destroyed by floods and erosion RiG ...

causing a drying out of the river by the Indian government. However, stepping into India, another story unfolds. With the 150 da ...

aims to promote French creativity and innovation in the fields of culture, science and gastronomy. Franck’s exhibition is just o ...

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Institutions that Empower HELPING THE WOMEN OF ASIA Text Jim Neale The UN's fifth sustainable development goal pledges to elimin ...